Back in 2015, Akiko Higashimura's Princess Jellyfish manga revealed that it was on the way toward its final chapter. Fast forward to the September 2017 issue of Kodansha's Kiss magazine and we finally have an end date. The series will officially come to its conclusion …Read more »
20 years of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga means we have plenty of big news to look forward to, but I bet there weren't too many people who saw this one coming. Revealed at a 20th anniversary event in Japan, Tomorrow Studios has plans to …Read more »
Masaki Yamada's Ōka Ninpōchō Basilisk Shinshō is a series of sequel novels set 10 years after the events of Futaroh Yamada's original 1959 Kōga Ninpōchō novel. Now a TV anime for the former has been green-lit, and the anime staff celebrated with the release of …Read more »
Tachi's four-panel yuri manga Sakura Trick has been running in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Miracle! since 2011, and was adapted into a Studio Deen-produced anime series in 2014. Now it's time for it to come to an end, with the finale set …Read more »
Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san , a popular manga about middle school teasing, is getting an anime adaptation in 2018, it was reported today. Just teasing! Wait, no, that was me teasing. It really is coming. I promise. Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san , which literally translates …Read more »
Quick: who’s your all-time favorite manga-ka? Not an easy question, is it? Still, it’s one thousands of readers of Japanese site Charapedia were willing to tackle the past week, serving up a list of 20 of the country’s most manga creators. Who came out on …Read more »
All good things must come to an end, and that includes Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail , which is set to end soon. in fact, Mashima’s staff have finished their work on the final chapter, according to a tweet from the author July 8. In the …Read more »
Bummed out by the lack of dystopian fantasy anime in your life? Studio White Fox has just the thing. The studio, best known for producing series like Steins;Gate and Re:Zero , has just announced an anime adaptation of Girls’ Last Tour ( Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou …Read more »
Kakeru Utsugi's How to keep a mummy is a cute manga series about a high school student who receives a little mummy as a gift. The official Comic website updated with new plans for the series, which include a TV anime adaptation. The How …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Caspian Ignis del Sol is a student at the prestigious Arcadia's Knight Academy—which prepares young men who aim to become a Sorceress's Knight—but he's not quite like the rest of the apprentices on campus. Caspian has absolutely no connection to a noble lineage, …Read more »
Hope you weren't getting too used to having new chapters of the Berserk manga to look forward to. Kentaro Miura's long-running series didn't come back to the pages of Young Animal that long ago—its latest return was timed with the return of the TV anime—but …Read more »
Though the story is different from that of the upcoming anime, Ukyō Kodachi and Tatsuma Ejiri's Infini-T Force manga is making its way to English audiences. Udon Entertainment announced its license of the series, with plans to release the first volume this September. Ahead …Read more »
Whether you're into creating comics or not, there's nothing quite like getting a chance to pick the brains of the best in the business. That exceedingly rare opportunity is rearing its head in English thanks to none other than JoJo's Bizarre Adventure creator Hirohiko Araki. …Read more »
Back in February, it was revealed C³ ’s Hazuki Minase would be writing an original manga based on Final Fantasy in celebration of the franchise’s 30th anniversary. Now some plot details for the manga have been revealed, and they involve death, resurrection and a little …Read more »
Anthropomorphism is, to quote Webster, “an interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics.” In other words, giving something distinctly inhuman human form. There are plenty of anime and manga that’ve done this over the years, but which …Read more »
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