Happiness is anything but. Makoto Okazaki, a hapless bullied young man, returns a DVD late one night right after a news report about a man being killed in his area. He is set upon by a mysterious girl who bites his neck, turning him into …Read more »
“Why … do we have to do this?” moans the protagonist on the first page of The Asterisk War , and I felt his pain. Years after a great meteor shower brought mana—basically superpowers—back into the world, skilled supers are trained in the city of …Read more »
© Tezuka Productions, used courtesy of Stone Bridge Press You’ve got to hand it to Tezuka Productions. Despite the “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka having been dead for more than 27 years, he’s never been more relevant to American fans than now. The secret is …Read more »
In addition to the recently-concluded summer anime series and a September stage play, So Yayoi's comico web manga ReLIFE is set to get the live-action movie treatment. A film was announced this week , with the Japanese premiere set for April 15, 2017. The movie …Read more »
No one on Earth can die. This isn’t a recent development (like in Torchwood: Miracle Day); violent death hasn’t existed for as long as anyone can remember, and since you instantly resurrect at full strength whenever you’re killed, a bullet to the head is the …Read more »
North American publisher Vertical is getting in on some more NISIOISIN action with the license of the Kubikiri Cycle novel. Vertical announced plans during its Anime Weekend Atlanta panel, and the first book in the Zaregoto series is currently lined up for an early 2017 …Read more »
Aoba is an orphan child raised by kindly old Maaya, but her life is beautiful. She lives on the lovely island of Barbara, a sunny, vaguely Mediterranean place where dryads sun their green leaves on the rooftops, where children can fly, and where the natives …Read more »
While her mother is away on a year-long business trip, Komugi “Goody Two Shoes” Kusunoki moves to rural Hokkaido to live with her estranged father. She has high hopes of starting afresh in a new school, but the consequences of the social faux pas she …Read more »
Twenty-six-year-old Nagisa Kataura worries that she’s aging out of her hobby as a cosplayer. She spends all the money from her temp job on her obsession, an anime called Magical Riding Hood Ururu. At first Nagisa comes off as one of those elitist cosplay snobs …Read more »
Rumors have been buzzing about lately regarding a live-action JoJo's Bizarre Adventure film, and they were confirmed during a joint press conference held by Toho and Warner Brothers Japan. More specifically, films are in the works to adapt the fourth arc of Hirohiko Araki's series, …Read more »
At its core, A Silent Voice ( Koe no Katachi ), the new film from Kyoto Animation and director Naoko Yamada, is about a group of young people desperately trying, often failing, but occasionally briefly, brilliantly succeeding at following that basic but intensely difficult rule …Read more »
Kentaro Miura's Berserk manga is no stranger to going on hiatus, and that will continue to be the case as we gradually glide into the new year. Sure, 2017 is still a few months away, but thanks to Young Animal magazine's confirmation of a new …Read more »
In the anime pantheon, not many people can reach the level of Hayao Miyazaki. Castle in the Sky is one of his iconic classics, and while it hasn’t reached the degree of recognition in the west as his titles Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke , …Read more »
Chiruran: Shinsengumi Chinkonka is a historical samurai manga written by Shinya Tokuma and illustrated by Eiji Hashimoto, and this week's release of volume 16 is bringing a big announcement along for the ride. Fans didn't end up having to wait until the September 20 street …Read more »
Sean Michael Wilson is a Scottish writer who specializes in collaborations with Japanese manga artists. I’ve enjoyed many of his books, going back to The Japanese Drawing Room, an adaptation of a Victorian travel journal. But his latest work, Breaking the 10, with art by …Read more »
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