Princess Jellyfish, the popular manga from Akiko Higashimura, is getting a live-action TV series adaptation, and the cast is being slowly revealed. We had previously learned Kyoko Yoshine will play main character Tsukimi Kurashita, but now we’ve got the word on Tsukimi’s cross-dressing friend Kuranosuke. …Read more »
Kengan Ashura, which was voted the best web manga of the year in a recent poll, is getting an anime adaptation, it was announced today. The fighting manga, written by Yabako Sandrovich and illustrated by Daromeon, is about an alternate-universe Japan in which gladiators fight …Read more »
Kentaro Miura’s Berserk manga is getting ready to return from one of its many hiatuses. Following a hiatus that went into effect back in June, home magazine Young Animal announced plans to bring the series back this winter. Now, thanks to early looks at the …Read more »
Gay manga My Brother’s Husband will be getting a live-action TV series adaptation in March 2018. The series will run for three episodes on Japan’s NHK Premium, it was reported Tuesday. My Brother’s Husband, written by Gengoroh Tagame, is a manga that deals with the …Read more »
Those who fondly recall Vampire Princess Miyu will be delighted to learn she’s rising from her grave for more manga. Original series artist Narumi Kakinouchi returns to write and illustrate the Vampire Princess Miyu – Saku (New Moon) web manga, which makes its debut as …Read more »
Oricon, Japan’s tracker of all things sold, just released the stats on the best-selling light novels and manga of 2017 (how they did this before 2017 is actually over is anyone’s guess). Anyway, here’s how light novels and manga fared in the year 2017: Light …Read more »
Over the past decade, superstar manga team CLAMP has been revisiting its older work, reviving xxxHolic, Legal Drug, and now its iconic 1990s magical girl series Cardcaptor Sakura. Sakura and her friends, originally elementary schoolers, are now in junior high but still cute as buttons. …Read more »
At Hyakkaou Private Academy, a school for the rich, gambling is everything. A caste system separates the high rollers from the impoverished masses, and when bourgeois Suzui loses a game of poker, he drops to the lowest ranks of the school hierarchy and ends up …Read more »
Tamaki has no degree, no qualifications, and no parents, but she does her best to find a good job so she can pay for her younger brother to go to college. One day, after a strange encounter with two men, she gets a job offer …Read more »
A couple days ago we posted about a mysterious countdown on the official website for the Ultraman manga, and it’s time to find out what all the hubbub is about. As it turns out, the series—written by Eiichi Shimizu and illustrated by Tomohiro Shimoguchi—is going …Read more »
Ditzy high school student Aries Spring is super excited for her class trip to Planet Camp. For one week a group of random students gets to camp on a planet without adults! The team bonding exercise also entails a challenge and this year it’s babysitting …Read more »
Just as the ocean’s waves ebb and flow, so too does the schedule of Yoshihiro Togashi’s Hunter x Hunter manga. Frequently on hiatus due to health issues, the series is finally getting ready to return once more. The last time a new chapter surfaced was …Read more »
Who doesn’t love mysterious countdowns? The Ultraman manga has something big in store, at least according to a recently-added countdown on the official website. The countdown went up alongside a tweet that simply said “important information” will be revealed when the timer comes to an …Read more »
Dragon Ball Z, YuYu Hakusho, Slam Dunk, Yu-Gi-Oh!… for many fans of Shonen Jump, the ‘90s is the decade to beat. Those fans will be excited to hear there’s an upcoming Tokyo exhibition dedicated to that era of the manga magazine. Today, the first poster …Read more »
Akkun to Kanojo (Akkun and His Girlfriend), a popular shoujo manga, will be getting an anime adaptation. The announcement came via the 7th volume of the manga, which is written by Waka Kakitsubata. Akkun to Kanojo centers around the relationship between the tsundere Atsuhiro “Akkun” …Read more »
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