2021 marks the 45th year Kodansha has put on its yearly Manga Awards. It has revealed its nominations, with the promise of learning who won on May 13. The titles nominated for Best Shonen Manga are Fire Force by Atsushi Ohkubo; Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End …Read more »
Kodansha has seriously revamped and updated its site, and it shared the news on Twitter. Just announced, we've got a new look & site! Check out our new homepage at https://t.co/66tfqplT5i. Keep following this account to stay updated on manga news. And for Kodansha book …Read more »
Kodansha began the Noma Publishing Culture Award last year, where it awarded your name.’s director Makoto Shinkai, author Keigo Higashino, models Mai Shiraishi and Erika Ikuta, and publishers Ribon and Nakayoshi. This year the award goes to Demon Slayer creator Koyoharu Gotouge, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: …Read more »
On July 17, almost one year to the date of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, Tokyo police arrested a man for threatening the publisher Kodansha. Like the suspect in the KyoAni case, this suspect claimed that the company in question did something unseemly with his …Read more »
We recently posted about a giant promotional manga magazine that combines Shueisha’s Shonen Jump with Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine to create a 2,264-page monstrosity (pictured right) with a ton of popular series represented. As cool as that wiiiiiide mag may be, there’s an even better way to illustrate what happens when two …Read more »
Park Jung-hyun, an editor at publisher Kodansha formerly in charge of the popular manga Attack on Titan , has been arrested in connection with the death of his wife, who the police suspect he killed. Park had made inconsistent statements about the death of his …Read more »
Want a bucket of digital manga? Want to support charity? Kodansha Comics has you covered. You may have heard of the Humble Bundle, the pay-what-you-want service that packages (“bundles,” if you will) digital games, books and apps to help support various charities. Kodansha, the English …Read more »
Attack on Titan season 2 hasn’t started yet? Seriously? C’mon, guys. To hold you over just a little longer, Kodansha Comics has licensed Attack on Titan: Lost Girls , the manga adaptation of the spinoff novel of the same name by Hiroshi Seko. The story …Read more »
Kodansha Comics has something up its sleeve for next month's New York Comic Con, and that something has to do with none other than Attack on Titan . The publisher will host a panel, and the title pretty much says it all: "The Biggest Attack …Read more »
Despite its reputation as a futuristic land of robots and high-speed trains, Japan actually trails behind the States in quite a few technological areas, like widespread wifi or internet banking. One area in which Japan seems to be catching up to the west is in …Read more »
The end of an era is at hand (or paw, rather) – Kanata Konami's Chi’s Sweet Home , the tale of titular feline Chi and her life with her owners the Yamadas – will wrap up this June, according to Kodansha. The final volume, set …Read more »
It's a strange, post-modern art project that shouldn't really work but somehow does: Bartkira , the project started in 2013 to redraw all of Akira with characters from The Simpsons . Ridiculous as the premise is, it's no small undertaking: the original Akira manga spans …Read more »
Middle schooler Mutsumi is in trouble. She’s so badly bullied by her classmates that she finds herself crying in the school bathroom. Normally she doesn’t pay much attention to the graffiti on the bathroom stalls, but today she notices graffiti where someone called Yato promises …Read more »
Kodansha had a couple of announcements for fans in North America yesterday, including the license of the Manga Dogs and Noragami manga series. Towering above them, so to speak, was the announcement of Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition , which brings a 1,000-page collection of …Read more »
Attack on Titan is one of those rare anime series that probably helped spawn a few new manga readers. Even those who are stubbornly reluctant to pick up the original source material of their favorite series would be hard-pressed to just sit on their thumbs …Read more »
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