Kentaro Miura‘s long-running Berserk manga just hit another milestone, with volume 40 launching in Japan today. To celebrate the occasion, Young Animal‘s official YouTube channel went all out with a minute-long promo starring 68-year-old singer Shigeru Matsuzaki in the role of Guts. See Matsuzaki in …Read more »
Ninjas, mononoke, and shady intelligence agencies get an action-packed mash-up in Black Torch. Street tough Jiro Azuma might look like a petty criminal, but he uses his ninja training to defend helpless animals, which he can talk to. This unique ability leads him to rescue …Read more »
Romeo and Juliet get a supernatural makeover in Coyote. Yes, it’s werewolves vs. gangsters in this scorching male/male romance. Coyote is a member of a werewolf clan that’s been hiding its presence from humanity for the last 70 years. The reason for this is the …Read more »
What makes big, bad yakuza member Nitta scared? A little girl. To be fair, Hina isn’t just any little girl. She falls out of the sky in a giant, oval, egg-shaped object, landing squarely on Nitta’s head. At first just her face is visible through …Read more »
Folks who like both Kentaro Miura’s Berserk and high-quality hardcover books: here’s some news that’ll make you go berserk with excitement. Dark Horse, who publish Berserk in English in the U.S., will be re-releasing the manga in a deluxe hardcover edition. The books will be …Read more »
Young Tanjiro and his family make a living selling charcoal. One cold winter he goes down the mountain to the village to sell his wares and returns home to a scene from a nightmare. His mother and siblings have been slaughtered by a demon and …Read more »
Golden Kamuy manga author Satoru Noda isn’t about to let an event like Senior Citizens’ Day slip by without putting his own spin on it. To celebrate the occasion, Noda whipped up some Silver Kamuy versions of popular chapters from the manga, taking the characters …Read more »
Back in February we reported on the announcement of a manga adaptation of live-action Hollywood film Back To The Future drawn by Yuusuke Murata (One-Punch Man, Eyeshield 21). It was set to be serialized by website Kono Manga ga Sugoi!, and supervised by film writer …Read more »
Are your current sneakers not as, uh, baller as you’d like? Maybe these Adidas Originals are just the thing. The shoe maker has just unveiled the packaging, pricing and release date for the first two pairs in its planned line of Dragon Ball Z-inspired kicks: …Read more »
Making friends is tough as it is, but imagine if all the memories you made with someone on the road to friendship just disappeared every week. That’s how things go for the determined Yuuki Hase and reserved Kaori Fujimiya in One Week Friends, a touching …Read more »
Long before Kuroko’s Basketball (and heck, even a year before Slam Dunk) there was Dear Boys, the oddly-named but super-popular basketball manga by Hiroki Yagami. Yagami has basically devoted his entire career to Dear Boys: the manga debuted in Shonen Magazine back in 1989 and …Read more »
In the 1990s and 2000s, an American manga reader might get the impression Japan was more progressive on LGBT issues than the US: American mainstream comics were aggressively straight, while manga was filled with genderqueer characters, sex-swapping, and gay romance. But in 2018, Japanese politics …Read more »
Known for its frequent hiatuses as a result of author Yoshihiro Togashi’s health issues, the Hunter x Hunter series is finally preparing to return once more. The manga’s most recent hiatus kicked off back in April, and its return is now scheduled for the September …Read more »
Chibi Maruko-chan is a beloved manga series in Japan. It first launched in 1986 and served as the basis for a famous anime, the first series of which ran from 1990 to 1992. The series comes from manga author Momoko Sakura, who passed away from …Read more »
Billed primarily as a story of friendship, Hungry for You is closer to horror comedy, with an emphasis on the comedy. Dreary Yomai Town is the site of mysterious disappearances. Three teenage girls have vanished, and the culprit seems to be Endo Yasuko, a girl …Read more »
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