Hollywood has been cooking up a live-action adaptation of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima’s Lone Wolf and Cub manga for quite some time, with Paramount and Justin Lin (Star Trek Beyond) still on board. Lin is producing, and he would also like to direct the …Read more »
Sankaku Head’s Himouto! Umaru-chan manga—which is currently enjoying a second season of anime—is about to come to an end. According to the latest issue of Young Jump magazine, there are just three chapters left, with the final to run in this year’s 50th issue. There’s …Read more »
You may have heard tales of Japan as a country where adults and children alike openly read manga without fear of criticism, and while adult comic readership is certainly higher than that in the west, grownups do sometimes get chided for sticking with their childhood …Read more »
Plum is a cat who lives with her owner, high schooler Taku Nakarai, at his mother’s traditional dance school. Plum is a sweet, smarter than average cat and is comfortable at home with the Nakarais—until a stray kitten shows up to disrupt her peaceful life …Read more »
In Japan it seems there’s a stereotype that shojo manga begets unrealistic expectations of romance from its readers. Rich, powerful, handsome men seem to always go dropping into the protagonists’ laps with implausible ease, so people assume that women who grow up reading shojo manga …Read more »
In a wasteland of rusty metal, on a heap of broken robot parts, a scientist finds a young woman’s metal head. Hefting it back to his shop, Daisuke Ido—a surgeon/mechanic who works on both biological and cyborg parts—finds the brain inside still perfectly preserved and …Read more »
Karuho Shiina’s Kimi ni Todoke romance manga originally kicked off back in 2006, and has been a top-seller in Japan ever since. The end of an era is on its way, though, because home magazine Bessatsu Margaret announced that the series is officially set to …Read more »
North American manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment announced the launch of an all-new adult imprint called Ghost Ship. The imprint will feature a line of specialty titles for adult fans, including previously announced series and two new print and digital manga acquisitions, Tadahiro Miura’s Yuuna …Read more »
The work of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the creator of octopus-headed Cthulhu and other horror icons, has inspired manga artists and authors ranging from the serious (Junji Ito’s slimy Uzumaki, Hideyuki Kikuchi’s pulp novels of demons and alien gods) to the not-so-serious (Toshio Maeda’s X-rated Urotsukidoji, …Read more »
“Minato Sahashi is a loser,” begins the back cover text of Sekirei, thus ensuring, according to the ancient laws of manga, that within the first 10 pages a hot, devoted girlfriend with supernatural powers will fall into his lap. In this case it happens literally, …Read more »
The horror manga of Junji Ito (Uzumaki) often walk the line between the scary and the ridiculous, never more so than here. Arisu immediately realizes something’s strange about transfer student Yuuma Azawa: he’s handsome but addicted to apologizing, constantly dropping to his knees and saying …Read more »
The tragic trajectory of Yakumo’s flashback follow its natural arc in the third volume of Descending Stories as he and adopted brother Sukeroku move beyond their long apprenticeship to define themselves not just as shin’uchi – rakugo performers in their own rights – but as …Read more »
After his mother’s death, a middle-aged man finds some old photos of Venice among her belongings. Curious about her past, he travels to Venice where he strolls the plazas and lagoons, looking for traces of the time when his mother was young and his grandfather, …Read more »
The hero of Frau Faust is Johanna Faust, the legendary sorceress who sold her soul to the devil. After 100 years her story became a fairy tale, and—through repeated retellings—she became a he. When a boy named Marion crosses paths with Johanna, she agrees to …Read more »
Hakka Sasakura is a typical high school girl living the typical high school life until she comes home from school one day to discover a giant adorable mascot named Ginger in her living room. Ginger looks like a cross between a penguin and a bull …Read more »
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