Ajin: Demi-Human is one of the best manga series being released in English right now. Gamon Sakurai has taken the relatively simple story of a certain breed of people who can't be killed and turned it into a tense game of cat and mouse between …Read more »
Over the weekend we posted about Vertical's plans to release the Attack on Titan: Lost Girls novel in English next year. The novel has Hiroshi Seko collecting three short stories that focus on Mikasa and Annie—"Lost in the cruel world," "Wall Sina, Goodbye," and "Lost …Read more »
Izuku Midoriya is kind of a wimp. He has a lot of heart and spirit, but he can turn on the waterworks at the drop of a hat, and he's a total shrimp physically. That's what makes this middle-schooler's determination to enter the prestigious U.A. …Read more »
Vertical Inc. had a few licenses to announce during this weekend's Anime Expo 2015, including some more manga and novels. One of them will bring more Attack on Titan our way in the form of Attack on Titan: Lost Girls . This book has anime …Read more »
What’s Masashi Kishimoto, creator of Naruto , up to now that his 15-year-old manga has ended? Aside from working on Boruto: Naruto the Movie and illustrating a Naruto spinoff manga, Kishimoto appears to have found some time to illustrate the jacket for a new album …Read more »
Even hardcore anime fans can be forgiven for not knowing of the existence of Osamu Tezuka’s Animerama. A trippy, LSD-bathed trilogy produced by the god of manga in the late 60s and early 70s, the Animerama films are definitely not kids’ stuff and have of …Read more »
It's been a while since we had a new work from acclaimed horror mangaka Junji Ito in English. It's been a while for Ito, too, apparently, as even he says he was shocked to learn it had been eight years since his last collection of …Read more »
NIS America's The Troubled Life of Miss Kotoura Complete Premium Edition set is coming to North America on August 4, giving us the perfect opportunity to gather up some reader questions and send them over to the anime's director, Masahiko Ohta. See what he had …Read more »
According to a preview of the September issue of Kodansha's ARIA magazine, Akira Hiyoshimaru's First Love Monster ( Hatsukoi Monster ) manga is getting an anime adaptation. The series kicked off in ARIA in 2013, and Yen Press will be releasing the manga in North …Read more »
In the back of Dream Fossil , Vertical's collection of Satoshi Kon's manga shorts, composer Susumu Hirasawa shares some thoughts on meeting and getting to know the late creator. While discussing his unique style—which he describes as being neither like animation nor live action–Hirasawa says, …Read more »
When the live-action Attack on Titan films open in Japan, they'll be the first of their kind to offer an immersive "4D" experience with motion seats, scents, and wind effects to go along with the on-screen IMAX action. The official website for the adaptations of …Read more »
Publisher Digital Manga launched its latest Kickstarter campaign , this time aiming to fund Osamu Tezuka's short story shoujo manga collection Storm Fairy . The Kickstarter has a goal of $14,200—it's already past the $10k mark at the time of this writing—and once it hits …Read more »
The Onion, that long-running satirical newspaper that often gets mistaken for a legitimate news source, lovingly poked a bit of fun at manga readers this week with a piece entitled “Study Finds Girls Go Through Manga Phase Earlier Than Boys.” The tongue-in-cheek report, which uses …Read more »
Author and anime/manga expert Helen McCarthy has had a busy year. “I’m promoting my year of four books,” she told Otaku USA at Anime Central in Chicago. The first book is A Brief History of Manga , and it has interesting and condensed information for …Read more »
When I reviewed the first volume of Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga, I wasn't entirely convinced of how long it could riff on its premise. Now that we're three volumes in, I think it's clear Matsui has enough ideas to keep this going as long …Read more »
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