I’m not a big fan of love stories, but love is one of the most useful frames for a character study. Through examining the way characters navigate their love life, we gain an understanding of who they are and what they value in life. Forget …Read more »
The blurb on the back of Inio Asano's latest manga calls it "an intense teen romance." The intense part, that's true. And I suppose you could call it a romance—that is, if you could call Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood a romance. Which it's not. And …Read more »
It’s the Taisho Era and Sayaka and Narutaki have a forbidden relationship. She’s a nouveau riche heiress and he’s her servant—specifically her chauffeur—who’s been working for her family for years. There’s a five year age difference between them, and Sayaka’s mother died and her father …Read more »
Asuka can’t wait to get married. Although she’s a very successful and hard-working real estate agent, her goal in life is to be a homemaker. She wants to be the one to create a safe haven for her husband and children. Unfortunately, she can’t seem …Read more »
Ranma 1/2 , Maison Ikkoku , Urusei Yatsura and, most recently, Rin-ne creator Rumiko Takahashi is preparing to release a new one-shot manga. Konya, Kanojo ga Yattekuru ( Tonight, She's Coming ) has been announced in the latest issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits …Read more »
Japanese polling site Charapedia recently asked its readers to rank the romance anime or manga that made them feel the most emotional. Or, in internet parlance, these are the anime that gave Japanese fans all the feels. Check out which romance anime provoked an emotional …Read more »
High school romance may be one of the most common themes in anime, but the new film Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita (I’ve Loved You For a Long Time) comes to us with a new and unusual production history. The film, which opened April 23 …Read more »
Shojo manga superstar Arina Tanemura is back in fine form with her latest manga Idol Dreams . Thirty-one-year-old Chikage Deguchi is lonely, invisible, and still a virgin. She labors away in office obscurity wondering what happened to her life and thinking back on the days …Read more »
Smart, pretty, and popular, Kyouko Hori is seen as one of the queen bees of her high school. But she doesn’t have much time to enjoy it, because when the bell rings she has to rush home, change into frumpy clothes, and serve as primary …Read more »
Honey So Sweet is every bit as adorable as its name. Nao Kogure is a shy girl, orphaned at a young age and raised by her uncle. She is shocked when during the second week of school the delinquent Taiga Onise asks her to date …Read more »
Digital Manga Publishing launched a new Kickstarter campaign , and this one is not for Osamu Tezuka manga. Thanks to the confidence built through those campaigns, the publisher is branching out to other manga, starting with Izumi Matsumoto's Kimagure Orange Road , which originally ran …Read more »
Miwa Ueda's Peach Girl manga is no stranger to adaptations. A live-action drama aired in Taiwan in 2001, and a TV anime followed in 2005. The shoujo fun doesn't stop there, though, because a live-action film adaptation is currently in the works, with the Japanese …Read more »
The course of true love never did run smooth, to borrow a line from Shakespeare, but few relationships have such backwards beginnings as the one that blossoms between high school students Chiyo Sakura and Umetaro Nozaki, the protagonists of Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun . Driven to …Read more »
High schooler Chiyo Sakura is trying to find the words to ask out Umetarou Nozaki. In the end, she blurts out that she’s his fan. Misunderstanding this, he hands her an autograph. What? Confused and flustered, Sakura stutters, “I want to always be with you.” …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: There are plenty of reasons for Chiyo Sakura to have a crush on her classmate Nozaki, but one of his most striking features is a total secret. Watch as Chiyo finds out the hard way in now up for pre-order in advance of …Read more »
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