There are currently over 200 million registered players of Epic Games’ insanely popular battle royale game Fortnite. Even if you’ve never touched it yourself, your daily life has, in some way, been invaded by an aspect of its influence. Now that influence has spread to the …Read more »
Well, it’s time to kick off the new year with a hearty congrats to Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama. Many manga authors are very private regarding their personal lives, but Isayama still keeps up with his own personal blog on Livedoor. His latest update …Read more »
Chirpy, eternally hopeful young Yukie works as a caseworker for elder care company Green Net. Unfortunately, thanks to the meddling of a jealous colleague, the senior citizens she’s dispatched to care for are the toughest cases: difficult, dangerous, and frequently supernatural. Yukie’s assignments include a …Read more »
Manga Kyochuu Rettou, also known as The Island of Giant Insects, will be getting the anime treatment, it was announced today. The manga, written by Yasutaka Fujimi and illustrated by REDICE, is about a group who get stranded on an island populated by—you guessed it—giant …Read more »
Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine has a special one-shot manga on the way for Dragon Quest XI in 2019, and they got a pretty big name to handle illustration duties. The artist in question is none other than Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima, who will be drawing a …Read more »
Have you been dying to find out what project Naruto author Masashi Kishimoto plans to tackle next? This weekend’s Jump Festa ’19 event brought some interesting news for the creator, who announced a new sci-fi manga called Samurai 8. Kishimoto won’t be handling this one …Read more »
Pop quiz: what’s something that’s normally pretty awful, but sometimes surprisingly good? Live-action manga and anime adaptations, that’s what. Japanese site Ranking! (can you guess what they specialize in?) recently asked 7,880 readers to list the live-action films based on manga or anime they found …Read more »
With Ghost in the Shell, it’s hard to find a more enduring franchise in anime that’s not made for children. Originally a manga created by Masamune Shirow in 1989, it’s been continuously adapted into anime and manga since its inception. Ghost in the Shell: Global …Read more »
Ran Uruma, a fourth-grader, lives with her teenage brother Jin and their father in their cluttered house. Ran dreams of following in her mother’s footsteps, which is no small dream, because Ran’s mother Shizuka is a powerful sorceress … so powerful that when she visits …Read more »
Ex-Arm, the sci-fi manga series by writer HiRock and illustrator Shinya Komi, is getting the anime treatment. The manga, which is currently on its 12th collected volume, is published by Shueisha, and has been running since 2015. It’s about a high school student named Akira …Read more »
Tetsuo!—Er, Tokyo! Tokyo Reborn, an upcoming NHK special about how Tokyo is changing in the lead-up to the 2020 Olympics, is getting some help from the creator of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo. The man behind that legendary manga and anime (set in the fictional Neo-Tokyo of …Read more »
We reported a few weeks ago that the live-action film version of Tokyo Ghoul would be getting a sequel. Now we know when that sequel is set to spook Japanese filmgoers: July 19. We’ve also got a new still from Tokyo Ghoul 2, featuring Masataka …Read more »
Viz recently announced a new era for the digital Shonen Jump magazine, which officially goes free-to-read as of today. That includes the magazine’s current lineup of 13 series—featuring the likes of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, My Hero Academia, One Piece, and more—the latest chapters of …Read more »
Back Street Girls is back. The manga about a group of yakuza forced to become idol singers was adapted into an anime series this year, and in 2019, it’s getting the live-action treatment. Now we’ve got a look at the film, titled Back Street Girls: …Read more »
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the Hayao Miyazaki manga/anime that helped launch Studio Ghibli, is getting a kabuki stage play in Japan. This is the first kabuki play based on a Miyazaki or Ghibli film, and will star two greats of the kabuki …Read more »
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