Class 3-E is special. So special, in fact, that it's completely separate from the rest of Kunugigaoka Junior High School. This isn't necessarily the good type of special, though, as the rest of the student body knows Class 3-E as the final destination of hopeless …Read more »
Since the release of the final Madoka Magica film, Rebellion , we haven’t had much in the way of new Madoka material, but that changed yesterday with the release of the first chapter of a new Madoka manga. The new series, entitled "Majuu-hen" (“Demon Story”), …Read more »
If you dig Japanese horror manga, you likely know the name Junji Ito well. The highly-regarded master of the macabre has been responsible for some of the most memorable frights in the genre, including the likes of Uzumaki , Gyo , and Tomie , among …Read more »
Rumi Yokoi and her ever-creative classmate Toshinari Seki are back in the second volume of Takuma Morishige's My Neighbor Seki ( Tonari no Seki-kun ) manga. It's more of the same goof-off hijinks this time around, proving that Morishige's key hook has plenty of life …Read more »
For those of you just now joining us… uh, what are you thinking? You've got 12 volumes of Knights of Sidonia to read, and if you start at 13 you're going to have a really tough time parsing sentences like, "Success! The Semi-Autonomous Conversion Organ …Read more »
Tsutomu Nihei's Knights of Sidonia manga has done a pretty commendable job of staying consistent throughout its run, and volume 12 does nothing to sway that. In fact, I'd say 12 was one of the most enjoyable volumes of late, mixing in a dash of …Read more »
Daisuke Ashihara's World Trigger manga is getting its first game adaptation in the form of World Trigger: Borderless Mission on PS Vita. Now we have a release window thanks to the July issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine, which has the game arriving in Japan …Read more »
Dragon Ball fans around the world cried out in joy this month with the announcement of the first Dragon Ball TV series in 18 years, Dragon Ball Super . Now word on the net is that the new series will also get a manga adaptation …Read more »
This year's San Diego Comic-Con, which takes place July 9-12 at the San Diego Convention Center, is fully loaded with guests. The 14th and final wave of guest announcements was issued this week, and one of the big additions is Kazuki Takahashi, creator of the …Read more »
Gamon Sakurai's impressive work on Ajin: Demi-Human keeps chugging along at a powerful pace in volume 4, which ramps up the action and the animosity between society and the immortal beings known as Demi-Humans. The calm but sinister Sato (AKA Hat) wants to turn the …Read more »
Before Black Jack was the rogue doctor we came to know and love in Osamu Tezuka's original, classic manga series, he was in medical school, naturally. That's the period depicted in Yū-Go Ōkuma and Yoshiaki Tabata's Young Black Jack prequel manga, which is officially getting …Read more »
Naruto fans will get the opportunity to meet the series' creator in the not-too-distant future. Viz Media announced plans to bring Masashi Kishimoto to New York Comic Con , and he's got plenty on his plate at the event. Kishimoto will participate in two panels …Read more »
Yes, there are actually that many live-action adaptations being announced this year that we at Otaku USA completely missed it when Takashi Miike's version of Terra Formars was announced in February. That's right: in case you missed it too, the director of Ichi the Killer …Read more »
Captain Tsubasa There are many reasons young people decide to participating in sports: through the influence of parents, friends, coaches, etc. In Japan, the land where there are manga about just about anything, comics naturally also play a part in what sports young people choose. …Read more »
Here’s one of the weirder petitions we’ve seen in a while (and we saw one recently to turn “Macho Man” Randy Savage’s birthday into national holiday): a man in Berlin is petitioning the United Nations to enact an international ban on anime and manga. The …Read more »
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