The Black Lagoon manga has been on and off again for the past decade or so, and author Rei Hiroe is pretty clear about why that is. Only two volumes have been released in the past 10 years, and according to Hiroe the sporadic publishing …Read more »
Anime piracy is on the rise… no, not like that. Like actual pirates. Without even counting One Piece, the sheer number of pirates in anime is both impressive and satisfactory. Since decades ago, daring swashbucklers have sailed the high seas, or the sea of stars, in search …Read more »
April 2022 will mark the 20th anniversary of the Black Lagoon manga by Rei Hiroe, so an exhibition is on the way this July to celebrate early. The exhibition will feature a bunch of original drawings from throughout the series’ history, and the creator kicked …Read more »
We all know that the younger you are in an anime, the more likely you are to be severely overpowered. Teens and preteens are becoming magical girls and getting in robots. But most of the time, they’re still fairly benign with what they can do. …Read more »
Hey, you. Yeah, you. I see you playing the Resident Evil Village demo. I saw you when that big goth vampire mom busted through the door. You can’t hide from me. So that’s how it is, huh? Fine, I’m here to give the people what …Read more »
Wishing you could travel the world? For now, at least, you can live vicariously through these anime heroes (and antiheroes). We’ve picked a few series featuring globe-trotting stars, who will leads you around our world (and occasionally others!) on heists, dirty jobs, and journeys of …Read more »
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is coming back for a second season in 2021! But, like all good things, we’re going to have to wait for it. As we anticipate the return of the weirdly adorable series, we’re filling some of that time by looking back …Read more »
Rei Hiroe is getting busy. Aside from the brand-new manga revealed last week, it’s now been announced the manga-ka will also be resuming his most famous creation, Black Lagoon. The manga, which began in 2002, most recently went on hiatus in August 2017. The Black …Read more »
Rei Hiroe, the creator of Black Lagoon, will be back with a new serialized manga in 2019. The war manga, which is tentatively called 341 Sentodan (341 Combat Team) will launch in magazine Monthly Shonen Sunday in spring. 341 Sentodan is about a group of …Read more »
Rei Hiroe’s Black Lagoon manga is kicking off a little break. According to the latest issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Sunday GX magazine, the series will go on hiatus so Hiroe can work on a compiled book volume. The 11th volume of Black Lagoon ships in …Read more »
Manga author Rei Hiroe had a problem. After having spent most of the 2000s writing the gun-based action series Black Lagoon, he got stuck in a rut. Release of new chapters became sporadic, until one day he just stopped right in the middle of an …Read more »
Manga authors rarely visit the United States because of their constant deadlines, so seeing Rei Hiroe, creator of Black Lagoon, at AnimeNEXT 2016 was quite the rarity. We got a chance to talk with him … while surrounded by a small army of publishing execs …Read more »
The antihero: far cooler than your average goody two shoes, this is the archetypal badass who takes no prisoners, cares about no one, and doesn’t have time to chat. Think Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , Mad Max or basically …Read more »
The Black Lagoon manga has been on hold since early 2014, but author Rei Hiroe has some big plans in store for the coming year. Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday GX magazine announced that the manga will be returning in spring 2017, and Hiroe is also working …Read more »
Remember that old phrase about fury and women and scorn and stuff? Anime ranking site Charapedia were probably thinking along those lines when they set up their latest survey, asking pollees the question, “what anime woman would you most scared of upsetting?” There’s no shortage …Read more »
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