Slam Dunk is returning to the big screen! The highly successful franchise started out as a 31-volume manga series (currently published in America by VIZ Media). This led to an anime series and some films. Now, twenty-one years after the manga’s debut, a new movie …Read more »
A new season of a series that shows the relationship between athletes and sports manga is underway on Japanese broadcaster NHK. The series, which is called Bokura wa Manga de Tsuyokunatta (We Became Strong Through Manga) is hosted by figure skater Daisuke Takahashi and narrated …Read more »
Captain Tsubasa There are many reasons young people decide to participating in sports: through the influence of parents, friends, coaches, etc. In Japan, the land where there are manga about just about anything, comics naturally also play a part in what sports young people choose. …Read more »
Not a week goes by, it feels, that we’re not reporting on some anime or manga that’s being turned into a live-action film. Though it’s not a particularly new phenomenon, the pace seems to be increasing as studios bank on nostalgia to drive ticket sales …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 »
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