Silver Spoon , the farming manga by Fullmetal Alchemist 's Hiromu Arakawa, is preparing to end an extended hiatus. According to this year's 52nd issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, out now in Japan, serialization will continue in the 5th issue of next year, …Read more »
Gangsta. , the definitively-punctuated manga recently adapted into an anime series, is going on hiatus due to author Kohske’s poor health, reports Monthly Comic Bunch magazine. The manga, which has been serialized in Bunch since 2011, is being released by Viz in North America. Gangsta. …Read more »
Somehow this one snuck by me, but back in 2012, the unlikely combination of Masamune Shirow ( Appleseed , Ghost in the Shell ) and Koushi Rikudou ( Excel Saga ) teamed up to create a manga called Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn …Read more »
“Not another Neon Genesis Evangelion spin-off manga,” I groaned. But Tony Takezaki isn’t just another spin-off artist; the creator of the A.D. Police manga adaptation and the untranslated Dr. Kishiwada’s Scientific Affection , Takezaki is a mad genius of science fiction with a wicked satirical …Read more »
Early news regarding an anime adaptation of Yoshiaki Sukeno's Twin Star Exorcists manga popped up in tiny form on the cover of Weekly Shonen Jump , which featured a small image of the cover of Jump SQ. 's January 2016 issue. Yes, it's a cover …Read more »
When it comes to books, VIZ Media is best-known for its manga, but it will also sometimes publish prose. Viz previously released the prose anthologies The Future Is Japanese and Phantasm Japan , and now there's the recently-released Hanzai Japan . Hanzai means “crime,” and …Read more »
Fairy Tail 's Happy. You know the ones. Those anime and manga characters where you can’t help thinking, “man, that is some high-level kawaii.” If you’ve ever wondered if your taste in cute mascot characters – be they animal, fairy, robot, god, whatever – matches …Read more »
Fairy Tail author Hiro Mashima launched a prequel manga, Fairy Tail Zero , in the first issue of Monthly Fairy Tail back in July 2014. The series ended up running through the magazine's final issue this past July, resulting in one full volume depicting the …Read more »
One of the best things about Detroit’s Youmacon is that it coincides with Halloween, so there’s double the reason to dress up. The temperatures may be low (and they were definitely low on October 31 in Michigan), but you wouldn’t guess it from these costumes. …Read more »
Shueisha, the publishers of Shonen Jump, will launch a new magazine devoted to the analysis of Jump’s most famous artists’ techniques, it announced today. Jump Ryū, which means "Jump Style," will devote each issue to a single influential artist who’s been serialized in Jump. The …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans is currently running, but we also have another Gundam anime series to look forward to. Yasuo Ohtagaki's Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga is getting an adaptation, with the official reveal having arrived via a teaser website that opened this week. …Read more »
After the terrible 2011 earthquake in Japan, VIZ Media and Autodesk released the digital art anthology Art for Hope with all of VIZ’s proceeds going to disaster relief. Now, several months after the approximately 8 magnitude April earthquake in Nepal, VIZ and Autodesk have teamed …Read more »
Last week, the Tokyo Bar Association issued a sexual orientation discimination warning to the Tokyo Detention House. Reportedly, the detention center had been refusing an inmate access to manga which depicts homosexual acts, while other inmates enjoyed unrestricted access to manga depicting heterosexual sex acts. …Read more »
New Game! is a manga by Shōtarō Tokunō that follows Aoba Suzukaze, a high schooler who joins a game company after graduation. Her senior at the company was responsible for making the game she loved as a child, and the four-panel manga centers on the …Read more »
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