New Hampshire parents are raising concerns after a "death note" book was discovered at Nashua High School North, naming 17 students with citations of how they wronged the anonymous author and the dates and times in which they allegedly would die. The notebook was of …Read more »
Manga author Hitoshi Iwaaki, whose manga Parasyte was recently adapted into an anime series and a pair of live-action films, is hard at work on a new manga with artist Daisuke Muroi, says manga magazine Weekly Shonen Champion. The manga, set to debut November 12, …Read more »
Over the years we've heard plenty about Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita manga being one of the dream projects of director James Cameron ( Terminator , Aliens , Avatar ). He's busy with the Avatar sequels, though, so while he's still on board to produce …Read more »
Bakuman is the best live-action manga adaptation I’ve seen this year. Based on the manga by Death Note creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Bakuman is the story of two high school students who team up to create a manga worthy of serialization in Shonen …Read more »
Viz Media had a bunch of announcements to make at this weekend's New York Comic Con, both in the form of anime and manga. Leading the former was the announcement of the 2011 Hunter x Hunter anime, which will be making its way to Blu-ray …Read more »
Do you like Death Note ? How about Bakuman ? The creators of both those hit manga, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, are teaming up for a third time with the new manga Platinum End , and now it’s been announced the English translation with …Read more »
It was tough to miss the loud accusations of whitewashing leveled at Dreamworks earlier this year when their live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost In the Shell was announced, placing Scarlett Johansson in the lead role of Major Kusanagi. The news this week is that …Read more »
Cult director Takashi Miike will helm a live-action version of Hiroaki Samura’s manga Blade of the Immortal , it was announced today. Main character Manji will be played by Takuya Kimura ( Redline , Space Battleship Yamato ). The manga, which ran from 1993 to …Read more »
Ryosuke meets a fragile looking girl who’s getting soaked in the rain. He offers her his umbrella, wanting to help, talking to himself about how he views women as treasures. What he doesn’t know is that she’s a dangerous Grim Reaper who’s visiting the human …Read more »
Earlier today we posted about the second season of Assassination Classroom being scheduled for January 2016 , but that's not all that's in store for Koro-sensei and his would-be killer pupils. There's also a spin-off manga on the way, with Koro-sensei Q! set to launch …Read more »
We weren’t sure what to expect when we met Toshio Maeda. Known as the “Tentacle Master,” Maeda created some of most infamous hentai manga of the 80s and 90s, including Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfield and Demon Beast Invasion, which changed adult manga world forever …Read more »
Dragon Ball Z films are strange beasts. Taking place between the series’ all-important sagas, the films have traditionally been side stories rife with inconsistencies and canonical errors. As such, fans have relegated even the best of the DBZ films to the category “fun but inconsequential.” …Read more »
Soul Eater and Soul Eater Not! manga author Atsushi Ōkubo is back with a new series, with Enen no Shouboutai ( Fire Brigade of Flames ) kicking off in the pages of Weekly Shonen Magazine . This year's 43rd issue hit stands in Japan this …Read more »
For a limited time, Otaku USA is having a sale on digital versions of our three special issues. Get Cosplay USA , Otaku USA Anime! , and Anime USA, each for 50% off ! To get these issues specialized for your iPad, iPhone, Android device, …Read more »
Polls, polls, polls. The Japanese internet can’t get enough of them, and truth be told, nor can we. It’s just so fun to see what those folks in Japan are thinking about, y’know? This week Charapedia asked its readers to pick the top 10 anime …Read more »
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