Visitors to this winter’s Comic Market shouldn’t expect to see any merchandise for the manga Kuroko’s Basketball, as fan comics depicting the series have been banned from the event. The ban stems from a series of threatening letters sent to various locations linked to Kuroko’s …Read more »
Fans of Takeshi Konomi's tennis manga, get ready for more anime action! A television adaptation of the Jump Square -serialized manga, The New Prince of Tennis , has officially been green-lit. The announcement comes via a promotional poster, which also notes that the manga's sixth …Read more »
If you’re eager for the next episodes of the new Fruits Basket anime, you’re going to have to cool off and wait just a little longer for episodes 9 and 10. Funimation announced an international delay for both as a result of the French Open tennis tournament …Read more »
No, that doesn't mean they're simulcasting an anime about killing giants. Rather, Giant Killing is the anime adaptation of Masaya Tsunamoto and Tsujimoto's soccer manga of the same name, which has been running in Weekly Morning since 2007. As tends to be the case with …Read more »
If you asked me a while ago what title we'd most likely be seeing on Viz's Shonen Sunday site, I would have said "I don't know, but definitely not a Mitsuru Adachi manga." I really dig Adachi, but we're not exactly talking about someone that's …Read more »
Kazuo Koike may be the most respected living manga author of all, but read enough of his manga and you’ll realize that respect comes from the fact that he’s certifiably insane. But he won’t be around forever, so in order to ensure that his manga-fu …Read more »
I like to describe certain events as "crimes" of fandom; developments such as "we never got a US release of Macross: Do You Remember Love? " which make me say "there is no justice in this world!" So it is that one of the biggest …Read more »
That looks like the case, if promises of a "big surprise" for Hajime no Ippo in the next issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine pan out. A potential return to the small screen in January would make sense, what with 2009 being the 20th anniversary …Read more »
The second box set of Baki the Grappler , based on Keisuke Itagaki's 1991 manga of the same name (the original run of which was serialized through '99), finds the titular young man a much more established fighter. Regardless of the constant cheers he receives …Read more »
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