With Masashi Kishimoto's long-running Naruto manga coming to an end in the pages of Shonen Jump , One Piece author Eiichiro Oda is helping to send it off with a nice and subtle tribute. The title page of next week's One Piece chapter 766 is …Read more »
Readers of the digital English Weekly Shonen Jump can look forward to checking out more new series as they debut in Japan. Viz Media is kicking off a "Jump Start" initiative that will have the publication premiering the first three chapters (one per week) of …Read more »
Two unrelated pieces of news about Kuroko's Basketball out today. The first is a bit of sad news for fans of the most popular basketball manga since Slam Dunk : Kuroko's will be coming to an end in the next issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, …Read more »
The latest issue of the Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump is a double 37/38 issue thanks to the fact that next week is a holiday over there. The manga anthology will be taking a breather in Japan for the Obon festival summer break, but Viz Media …Read more »
As previously reported, the next Naruto anime flick has the foreboding title of The Last: Naruto the Movie , and it's slated to open in Japanese theaters on December 6. Series creator Masashi Kishimoto is supervising the story and designs, and the official website was …Read more »
In addition to the next Dragon Ball Z movie, we can officially look forward to another Naruto flick in the not-too-distant future. This one's coming at the tail end of this year, with The Last -Naruto the Movie- slated to open in Japan on December …Read more »
There's a new Dragon Ball Z film on the way to Japan, as revealed in the September issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine. The movie is set for a 2015 release during the Golden Week string of spring holidays, and will be scripted by original …Read more »
It's been both rumored and expected, especially since the manga has been such a success, but it's now official : Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom is getting a TV anime adaptation, set to air on Fuji TV in 2015. That's not all, though, because the series …Read more »
The people making the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure TV series have to do a lot of condensing to get through the original manga's sheer amount of content. The first part, Phantom Blood , was sped through in just nine TV episodes. The rest of the 26-episode …Read more »
According to the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, the anime adaptation of Tadatoshi Fujimaki's popular Kuroko's Basketball manga is coming back for more. Production on a third season has been green-lit, with more details such as broadcast times to be announced in future …Read more »
Fans of Daisuke Ashihara's World Trigger manga can officially look forward to seeing it in animated form at some point. Both Japanese publisher Shueisha and North American publisher Viz Media announced a TV anime adaptation of the Shonen Jump series, which originally debuted in the …Read more »
If there's one thing J-Stars Victory Vs. delivers on right off the bat, it's celebrating the 45th anniversary of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. If you're a fan of even a small portion of its properties you'll find something you recognize here, and it doesn't shy …Read more »
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga-making Shonen Jump series Bakuman is set to get the live-action treatment. A movie is officially on the way , with a premiere planned for 2015. The Bakuman movie will be directed by Hitoshi Ōne, who also adapted Mitsurou Kubo's …Read more »
Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter manga is notorious for going on hiatus, with the most recent one beginning after the publication of chapter 340 back in March 2012. It looks like Togashi is ready to come back after a couple years, and both the Japanese …Read more »
Remember when we posted about a special Dragon Ball manga chapter that focuses on Goku's past and introduces his mother, Gine? Akira Toriyama's bonus Dragon Ball Minus chapter was included as part of the Jaco the Galactic Patrolman manga collection in Japan, and it looks …Read more »
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