There’s been a controversy brewing over some Western credit card companies and their agencies when it comes to manga retailers that sell adult titles. Some of these credit cards will not purchase from the retailers, and Visa has publicly admitted that they’re one of them. …Read more »
In a move to reach the younger generations, the Vatican recently revealed its own anime mascot, a girl named Luce (Italian for “Light”). Archbishop Rino Fisichella explained that the mascot was “created from the desire to enter into the world of pop culture, so beloved …Read more »
In August, Otaku USA reported on how some Western credit card companies have threatened penalties or told Japanese companies they need to stop selling some of their explicit manga titles. Manga creator and politician Ken Akamatsu spoke out against this, and now he’s been pulled …Read more »
Japanese publishers are getting more aggressive going after piracy sites, and in one case publisher PCR Distributing is taking legal action against the site nHentai. Quite a bit of PCR Distributing’s adult work ends up on nHentai, where the piracy site is offering it for …Read more »
Over in Japan, Shueisha and Bandai Namco Entertainment worked together to launch the One Piece Base app. Along with giving you access to the manga, the app allows you to take a picture of yourself and have it converted into One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda’s …Read more »
A percentage of Japan’s manga output includes sexually explicit material, and sometimes foreign credit card companies balk at the idea of certain titles. For example, website Manga Library Z was told by multiple credit card brands from the West that it needed to cease …Read more »
eBay has announced a new “Adult items policy” that will go into effect on July 15. Multiple items that have been legal to sell and purchase on eBay will be banned, and eBay specifically calls out “sexually explicit anime, comics, books, animation, manga, hentai, yaoi” …Read more »
Overflow, an adult manga by author Kaiduka, is getting the anime treatment. The news, revealed yesterday, comes complete with one of the most, uh, creative pieces of key art we’ve seen in a while. Overflow tells the tale of college student Kazushi and his childhood …Read more »
Melonpan is a Swiss otaku who’s built an internet following over the last several years publicizing his “perverted” antics. Posing with his anime merch in his underwear (or bare-ass) for selfie tweets is a regular thing for him. In 2013 he filmed himself licking nearly …Read more »
It's no secret that Samuel L. Jackson is an anime fan, but do you know what type of anime he especially digs? The question came up during a Wired video that had the actor answering the most searched questions about him on the Internet, and …Read more »
Conservative US politician Sharron Angle is currently running for the Republican nomination in Nevada's senatorial election, so she recently took to print and online to further combat party rival Joe Heck. She certainly wasn't expecting to get egg on her face when she directed voters …Read more »
About 95% of directors of so-called eroge, or erotic Japanese video games, throw in the towel, and 10% of those within a week of getting the job, says Akabeisoft 2 president Kei Mimasu. Mimasu shared those and other interesting stats in a series of tweets …Read more »
We weren’t sure what to expect when we met Toshio Maeda. Known as the “Tentacle Master,” Maeda created some of most infamous hentai manga of the 80s and 90s, including Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfield and Demon Beast Invasion, which changed adult manga world forever …Read more »
The Onion, that long-running satirical newspaper that often gets mistaken for a legitimate news source, lovingly poked a bit of fun at manga readers this week with a piece entitled “Study Finds Girls Go Through Manga Phase Earlier Than Boys.” The tongue-in-cheek report, which uses …Read more »
The press release I received this morning opened up innocently enough with the following exclamatory claim: "Mnemosyne LLC has teamed up with the people who brought you the Anime After Dark Film Festival to bring you a new taste sensation!" So what is this tasty …Read more »
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