Manga is a giant business, both in Japan and abroad. In the US, we regularly hear about how volumes of One Piece or Naruto outsell homegrown American comics by a wide margin, and new players are getting into the manga publishing game all the time. …Read more »
Wataru Watanabe’s manga Yowamushi Pedal has been adapted into anime, stage plays and more. Now it’s headed to the big screen, and we’ve got the trailer to prove it. The film, entitled simply Yowamushi Pedal, stars Ren Nagase as Sakamichi Onoda, Kentaro Ito as Shunsuke …Read more »
Even if it’s for a very serious reason, the kids in Japan are currently stuck at home away from school until at least the end of the month. That means there’s a lot of free time to kill, which is something publishers Shueisha and Shogakukan …Read more »
Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger is an interesting metafictional take on traditional video-game-to-manga adaptations. While it could very easily cross over into the embarrassing world of self-insert wish fulfillment scenarios, instead it subverts expectations and turns into something much more exciting. Protagonist Shogo works at Square …Read more »
CLAMP’s Cardcaptor Sakura manga previously inspired an art exhibition that ran in Tokyo from October 2018 to January 2019, and now it’s getting ready to come back for more. With the first run proving to be a success, another is set to run in Hirakata-city, …Read more »
Before there was One Piece, series creator Eiichiro Oda released a 1996 one-shot manga called ROMANCE DAWN. Now the story that served as a prototype for one of the most successful manga of all time is getting an anime adaptation of its own. The ROMANCE …Read more »
Kazuya Minekura’s Saiyuki Reload Blast manga has been on hiatus for a whopping 18 months, but it’s about to finally come back to the pages of ZERO-SUM magazine. The mag recently revealed plans for the fantasy adventure series to make its long-awaited return in the …Read more »
Now that’s an intriguing title. Dropout Idol Fruit Tart, a manga from Sou Hamayumiba, is dropping onto TV screens with an anime adaptation. The series will be directed by Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Island) and animated at studio feel. Kawaguchi shares series composition duties with Tatsuya Takahashi …Read more »
Mitsuru Adachi‘s MIX is a spinoff baseball manga set around 30 years after the events of Touch, and it has a TV anime on the way this April. The manga is currently being promoted in Japan with a series of commercials featuring AKB48 idol Moeka …Read more »
VIZ Media recently announced the creation of a new imprint, VIZ Originals, which will be publishing “manga-inspired” books starting in 2020. In other words, after years of giving fans manga licensed from Japan, the company now wants to get new graphic novels from their fans. …Read more »
Remember Hot Gimmick? The shojo manga about high school girl Hatsumi Narita, which ran from 2000 to 2005, is getting a live-action film adaptation. The film is due out in Japan June 28, 2019, and today the cast, trailer and poster for the film were …Read more »
Back in January, the nominees for the Manga Taisho, one of the manga world’s most prestigious awards, were announced. Now that list of 13 titles has been whittled down to just one: Astra Lost in Space by Kenta Shinohara. The manga, known in Japanese as …Read more »
Remember that teen movie Clockstoppers, where a high schooler has the power to stop time? Okay, imagine that, but anime. That’s the premise of Fragtime, which, despite its title, is not about Quake III matches, but a high school girl named Misuzu Moritani who uses …Read more »
If there’s one sport we know the readers of Otaku USA are excited about, it’s rugby. Right, guys? Guys? Okay, rugby hasn’t exactly captured the imagination of American audiences, but as we know, sports manga is often less about the actual sport than using that …Read more »
There are certain manga series you just know won’t ever truly end. Eiichiro Oda‘s One Piece is definitely one that could theoretically chug along happily until the author is completely exhausted, no matter how much Oda insists upon its impending conclusion. And then there’s Hajime …Read more »
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