Luffy and the Straw Hats are at that crucial point of the current Dressrosa Arc in which most of them are split up and doing different things, inevitably building to a final showdown and a timely reconvening. One Piece story arcs are pretty predictable—introduce the …Read more »
We knew was coming, and now we know when: Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto spinoff manga is set to debut in Shonen Jump on April 27. The manga, titled Naruto Gaiden: Nanadaime Hokage to Akairo no Hanatsuzuki ( Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring …Read more »
Japanese ranking site Goo is back with another survey, and this time they’ve asked their readers what anime characters have the cutest, most impression-leaving pair of peepers. Specifically, they’ve asked about “ tsurime ,” which kinda means upturned or almond-shaped eyes. Anyway, you’ll get the …Read more »
photo: Comic Natalie As of this past weekend, the Live Spectacle Naruto stage play is open for business in Tokyo! Japanese websites Famitsu , Cinema Today , Nico Nico , and Comic Natalie were given a sneak peak via a dress rehearsal on Friday, followed …Read more »
Back in July of last year we posted about the creation of Manga-Anime Guardians , an initiative started by the Japanese government in order to reduce piracy of anime and manga online. Manga-Anime Guardians have now reported about their progress for the first time. In …Read more »
Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins manga is getting a special OVA, set to be bundled with the 15th volume. The announcement comes from this year's 16th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine , which reveals the Ban-centric episode, "Ban no Bangai-hen," and lists the …Read more »
It's a strange, post-modern art project that shouldn't really work but somehow does: Bartkira , the project started in 2013 to redraw all of Akira with characters from The Simpsons . Ridiculous as the premise is, it's no small undertaking: the original Akira manga spans …Read more »
The Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs announced Thursday the winners of 2014’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Recommendation Awards, and the Rookie of the Year for media/arts went to none other than Masashi Kishimoto, creator of the recently-completed manga Naruto . …Read more »
What happens when you find out your lead might just be a massive, unsympathetic jerk? I guess nothing, really—contrary to popular belief a character doesn't need to be likable to be a good character—but that's one of the handful of revelations in Ajin: Demi-Human vol. …Read more »
Not a week goes by, it feels, that we’re not reporting on some anime or manga that’s being turned into a live-action film. Though it’s not a particularly new phenomenon, the pace seems to be increasing as studios bank on nostalgia to drive ticket sales …Read more »
The search for Paperboy is getting even more intense in the second volume of Tetsuya Tsutsui's Prophecy , a gripping tale of cyber crimes and an increasingly complex search for the person(s) behind them. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Anti Cyber Crimes Division—under the expert, …Read more »
It hasn't been that long since I read the previous volumes of Naoki Serizawa's Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire manga, but volume three would have had me covered either way. There's practically a novel in the first few pages for anyone who needs a recap, …Read more »
Sad news out of Japan today with the passing of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, the legendary manga artist who pioneered gekiga, or manga aimed at adult audiences. He was 79. Tatsumi, born in 1935, coined the term “gekiga” (literally “dramatic pictures”) in 1957 to describe the dark, …Read more »
Shonen manga. Love it as you might, you’ve gotta admit the action-packed genre, aimed squarely at boys 10 to 18 but with an actual audience much larger than that, deals in a lot of what cynics might call “cliches” but fans might call, uh, “fixed …Read more »
We previously posted about the Naruto stage play that's coming to Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore. The play will adapt the first arc of Masashi Kishimoto's manga, and while we've seen individual character visuals, we now have a look at the full, character-loaded stage play visual. …Read more »
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