Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 is a hugely popular manga—it even took over Milan Station thanks to the promotional work of Star Comics—and now it’s officially getting an anime adaptation. While details are light at the moment, a teaser video went up on the TOHO …Read more »
It’s not uncommon in Japan for the release of a manga to be advertised with giant murals at train stations. This technique hasn’t been used so much elsewhere, but thanks to Star Comics in Italy, that’s changing. The publisher has turned the Porta Genova metro …Read more »
Kaiju No. 8 takes a popular form of Japanese entertainment — the kaiju, a type of giant monster — and instead of recycling the same type of story, gives it an entertaining, refreshing twist. Yes, the manga opens with a typical kaiju scene as a …Read more »
They really love manga and anime in France. Look no further than the country’s national library, Bibliothèque Nationale, which is located in Paris. Right now it has a humongous mural of Kaiju No. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto running along its side. The mural is 45 …Read more »
Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga continues to be a hit, and the latest numbers have it zipping past 4 million copies printed physically and sold digitally. This helps it hold onto its reign as the fastest-selling series that originated on the digital Shonen Jump+ …Read more »
When it comes to Shonen Jump manga, Kaiju No. 8 is one of the more popular ongoing entries, and it’s now also the fastest Shonen Jump+ series to hit the milestone of three million copies in circulation. That covers copies printed physically and sold digitally, …Read more »
With the second volume of Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga now in Japanese stores, the Shonen Jump+ series has officially hit a milestone. The editor revealed that the manga has a physical print run of a million copies across both volumes, and that jumps …Read more »
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