Karuho Shiina’s Kimi ni Todoke romance manga originally kicked off back in 2006, and has been a top-seller in Japan ever since. The end of an era is on its way, though, because home magazine Bessatsu Margaret announced that the series is officially set to …Read more »
Hakka Sasakura is a typical high school girl living the typical high school life until she comes home from school one day to discover a giant adorable mascot named Ginger in her living room. Ginger looks like a cross between a penguin and a bull …Read more »
In a world where elves, dwarves, trolls, and winged people co-exist with humans, Itoko Kazamori is a relatively rare changeling: an elf who was born in “the other realm” and swapped with a human baby at birth. Now at high school, she has deliberately cultivated …Read more »
High schooler Natsuo finds temporary distraction from his crush on his teacher when a girl at a party asks him to help her lose her virginity. She is calm and clear about having no intention of seeing him again, leaving him with mixed feelings. However, …Read more »
Kameko Shimana hates her life, she hates her name (it sounds weird in Japanese), and she hates her new stepmother and baby brother, even though she knows they didn’t really do anything wrong. Depressed ever since her mother’s death, she thinks dark thoughts and skips …Read more »
As a teenager, one of the first things I loved about romance manga was that characters expressed anxiety about love and sex … not like in mainstream Western media, where sex seemed like just something beautiful people just did, and if you didn’t do it, …Read more »
After a breakup, Minare Koda drowns her sorrows with a group of strangers. The next morning she remembers nothing, but in the middle of her shift as a waitress she hears her own voice coming through the radio, a drunken ramble recorded the night before. …Read more »
Mikuri is a licensed clinical psychologist with postgraduate qualifications who is struggling to keep a job. Any job. While she’s living with her parents, her father finds her work as a housekeeper for the picky Mr. Tsuzaki, a former colleague of his. When her parents …Read more »
Kohei and Taichi are opposites, and that’s part of what draws them together. Taichi is a loudmouth who has trouble keeping down a job, but his heart is always in the right place. Kohei is aloof and mysterious and mostly keeps to himself. Taichi grew …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: What happens when the transition to high school suddenly ushers in a plethora of potential love connections? Well, things tend to get complicated. This is exactly what Takaaki Kouno finds out in To Heart 2, which is coming to Blu-ray and DVD in …Read more »
Live-action adaptations of manga and anime are common—the reverse, not so much. The live action-to-anime adaptation is a rare beast indeed, but one that seems to be of particular interest to popular indie director Shunji Iwai, who, in 2015, used animation to create a prequel …Read more »
Wataru Yoshizumi's Marmalade Boy manga ran from 1992 to 1995, and is generally considered to be one of the classics of shoujo. It's been adapted into an anime series, anime movie, light novels, dating sim, and even a live-action TV show in Taiwan, and now …Read more »
Love and Lies , the manga set in an authoritarian Japan where marriage partners are assigned by the government, is currently being adapted into anime form, and a live-action film is due out this October 14. Now we’ve got the first poster and trailer for …Read more »
This seems like such an obvious poll question, I’m surprised we haven’t featured it yet. Japanese anime news site Anime Anime have just released the results of a poll that asked readers: which anime character would most you like to marry? To be more accurate, …Read more »
Feeling blue about the lack of Orange in your life? Good news: the popular romance manga will be getting a new chapter in next month’s Monthly Action magazine. Orange , written by Ichigo Takano, originally ended in 2015 and inspired an anime series and movie …Read more »
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