Manga author Rumiko Takahashi has been hard at work creating memorable series for over 30 years, from Urusei Yatsura to Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, and beyond. Her latest series, RIN-NE, ended almost a year ago, so now it’s almost time to see what’s next for the …Read more »
Oricon has come through with the best-selling book rankings for Japan in 2018, which once again has Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece dominating the manga charts. This isn’t just an off and on phenomenon either, it marks the 11th year in a row for One …Read more »
OKAYADO’s Monster Musume manga—which previously inspired a TV anime in 2015—has been on hiatus since September, but it finally let up long enough for a new chapter to debut. While chapter 62 won’t be immediately followed by another, the Comic Ryū blog entry has OKAYADO …Read more »
Born into a poor family in 1941, Tadao Tsuge grew up in the chaos and poverty of immediate postwar Japan: a rundown Tokyo of open sewers and ruined buildings, populated by thugs, prostitutes, and occupying American GIs. In the late 1960s and 1970s, these memories …Read more »
Popular science-fiction manga Terra Formars has been going in and out of hiatus for the last few years as creator Kenichi Tachibana deals with health issues. The manga returned to the pages of Young Jump three weeks ago, but the Formarsing was not to last. After …Read more »
It was just a matter of time, wasn’t it? One of the boxes that must be ticked when a series is popular in Japan is the inevitable stage play adaptation, and that’s officially lined up for Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia manga. My Hero Academia …Read more »
What will be the number of Girlish Number Shura episodes? 0. Feeling some girlish disappointment over here. The anime, which was going to be based on the 4-panel gag manga of the same name, was canceled because of an inability to find enough staff members …Read more »
Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel, a classic magical girl anime series form the 1980s, is getting a manga spinoff. The manga, which is titled Maho no Tenshi Creamy Mami Fukigen na Ohime-sama (literally Magic Angel Creamy Mami Ill-Tempered Princess) will run on Coamix’s manga site, …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka, the godfather of manga, may be best known for Astro Boy and Black Jack, but the prolific author tackled a huge variety of genres, and wrote some stuff that’s definitely not for kids. That includes Barbara, the 1973-74 series about a writer with …Read more »
Get ready for more ghoulin’. The sequel to last year’s live-action adaptation of Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul is headed to theaters in summer of 2019. The film, which is tentatively titled Tokyo Ghoul 2, will again star Masataka Kubota as Ken Kaneki. Shuu Tsukiyama will …Read more »
Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys is a sprawling epic that began in 1999, though it’s hard to gauge what era this time-jumping story hails from. Flashing back to as early as 1969 and forward to a version of 2017 very different from the one we …Read more »
In this reunion romance with a twist of awkward and a splash of drama, Naoto and Taichi were secret lovers in high school, but lust soon turned into animosity. Several years later, they’re reunited in college. Naoto is looking forward to making friends and kicking …Read more »
Writer Riichiro Inagaki and illustrator Boichi’s sci-fi adventure manga Dr.STONE is officially getting an anime adaptation, with Inagaki supervising the anime’s story and voice actor Yusuke Kobayashi (Subaru in Re:ZERO) in the lead role of Senku Ishigami. The series is currently set for a July …Read more »
Rei Hiroe is getting busy. Aside from the brand-new manga revealed last week, it’s now been announced the manga-ka will also be resuming his most famous creation, Black Lagoon. The manga, which began in 2002, most recently went on hiatus in August 2017. The Black …Read more »
The live-action version of popular franchise Touken Ranbu is due out January 18. To get the hype machine rolling, Toho Cinemas has revealed a few stills taken on the set of the film. The film stars the cast of the Touken Ranbu stage play, which …Read more »
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