Kodode is a more or less typical Tokyo schoolgirl, a bright, nerdy slacker trailing a little behind her classmates in maturity. She likes playing video games, fangirling over a Doraemon-like kiddie manga called Isobeyan, hanging out with her ponytailed, poker-faced best friend Ontan, and nurturing …Read more »
Orange is an emotional roller coaster of a series, involving time travel and romance as well as the darker topic of suicide. That cocktail of heady subject material made for one of the best manga and anime series of the last 10 years. For the …Read more »
In all the ways that count, Saintia Sho is indistinguishable from its source material, the classic 1980s fantasy battle manga Saint Seiya (published in English as Knights of the Zodiac) and its thousand-and-one spinoffs. This time around, the main cast is composed entirely of female …Read more »
With likable characters and a story that’s cute from out of the gate, Juana and the Dragonewt’s Seven Kingdoms gets off to a promising start, but staggers a little in the execution. In a far future, humans, also known as Muernandes, have been extinct for …Read more »
Real Girl, AKA 3D Kanojo, is a manga by Mao Nanami that’s getting both an April-due anime adaptation and a live-action film. The latter is the subject of a new teaser video, which offers a quick glimpse of director Tsutomu Hanabusa’s take on the material …Read more »
Kazuhiro Fujita‘s Ushio and Tora manga received a fresh anime adaptation recently, with the full run spanning 39 episodes from July 2015 to June 2016. An “important announcement” was recently teased in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, and that announcement turned out to be another animated …Read more »
After the Rain (Koi wa Amegari no Yo ni), the manga from Jun Mayuzuki, may be best known in the west thanks to its currently-airing anime adaptation. But a live-action version is also on the way. The live-action version is due out in Japanese theaters …Read more »
It’s a tale as old as time: Some creature enters a young person’s life and they form a bond that changes everything. We’ve seen a boy and his dog, a boy and his electric mouse, and even a girl and her mischievous alien. Nagi, meanwhile, …Read more »
The two main characters in Kaguya-Sama are both smart and accomplished, and both have the emotional intelligence of a doorknob. The main pleasure of the series is the deadlock Kaguya and Miyuki find themselves in, trapped by their belief in the adage that “the one …Read more »
After 10 years overseas, Leo Tachibana, the teenage heir to a fashion fortune, returns to Japan for high school … and revenge! His target: Tenma Tsuwabuki, a rich tomboy who once accidentally dunked him in a turtle pond, leaving him with bite marks on his …Read more »
Back Street’s back, all right. There are so many new series every season (or cour, if you prefer) it’s impossible to highlight them all—but the premise of this one definitely caught our attention. The comedy series, which premieres in July, is called Back Street Girls, …Read more »
This seems like the week for big news from manga creators. From word about Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto’s new serialization to some teasing from Fairy Tail‘s Hiro Mashima, there’s a lot going on in the industry! There’s also something coming from Ushio and Tora author …Read more »
Fairy Tail may be over, but much like Naruto‘s Masashi Kishimoto, series creator Hiro Mashima has been hard at work. According to his latest update, he should be able to reveal a few things this April.
Fans of the Naruto manga will be happy to know that series creator Masashi Kishimoto is now hard at work on his next project. During a Weekly Shonen Jump press conference, editor-in-chief Hiroyuki Nakano confirmed that Kishimoto’s new manga will be a serialization, and that …Read more »
A new app based on Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball is heading to smartphones. That’s the news from a countdown website revealed today. As of this writing, the counter is sitting at 16 days, meaning we’ll be hearing more details about the app on March 21. …Read more »
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