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Last week, employees of the comic book publisher Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Twitter (because this is where these things happen now) that they were looking to creating a new union, United Workers of Seven Seas, the first union in US manga. We are United Workers of Seven Seas. Seven Seas Entertainment is the number one independent[...]

The Formerly Fallen Daughter of Duke by Saki Ichibu and Ushio Shirotori is a new manga series launching in Tokyopop's August 2022 solicits and solicitations below. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ FORMERLY FALLEN DAUGHTER OF DUKE GN VOL 01 TOKYOPOP JUN222361 (W) Saki[...]

Founded in 1986, Viz Media is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company based in San Francisco, California and is the second-largest manga publisher in the USA Bleach, created by Tite Kubo, follows the adventures of the teenager Ichigo Kurosaki, who inherits his parents' destiny after he obtains the powers of a Soul[...]

 Tomonori Inoue, creator of Coppelion, launches a new manga series Candy & Cigarettes, being translated and published by Seven Seas Entertainment as part of their August 2022 solicits and solicitations Here is the full list from the manga publisher.Tomonori Inoue's Candy & Cigarettes in Seven Seas August 2022 Solicits #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align:[...]

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Omnibus Volume 6 collects volumes 16-18 of the popular manga by Osamu Takahashi The collection will retail for $24.99 and is available for preorder now It will hit both comic shops and bookstores together on December 28, 2022. The cover to Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising[...]

At last, Crunchyroll has announced it has acquired the streaming rights to the highly anticipated anime adaptation of the bestselling manga Chainsaw Man Crunchyroll will simulcast the series from Japan later this year, subtitled and dubbed, in more than 200 countries and territories around the world Dubs will include English, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese,[...]

They start attacking Piccolo and Gohan… What is the New Red Ribbon Army's objective? In the face of approaching danger, it is time to awaken, Super Hero!" "Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero" still, Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures The movie has the full commitment and deep involvement of Dragon Ball original creator Akira Toriyama, with the legendary manga creator[...]

Yen Press has announced they would be publishing the highly anticipated manga series Hirano and Kagiura. This new series is the highly anticipated spin-off to the popular boys' love series Sasaki and Miyano The story features two lovable side characters from the original manga who now have a story of their own! This announcement comes following the publication[...]

She said (well, typed it) about Heaven's Door: Extra Works, a collection of short stories by a manga-ka called Keiichi Koike In some of these stories, the scale is pure Akira, but the detail and fluidness of the line are absolutely Moebius Moebius even referred to Koike as a "magnificent ronin" in a blurb from[...]

Media Do International Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary of Media Do Co., Ltd., Japan's largest eBook distribution company, just announced the expansion of Japanese titles available on OverDrive, the leading digital reading service for libraries and schools worldwide, in time for Golden Week, the biggest national holiday in Japan. Overdrive Golden Week Sale poster OverDrive's Golden Week Japanese[...]

The upcoming Higround x Attack on Titan capsule pushes the envelope on anime and hardware collaborations, featuring two unique keyboard and mousepad designs, two sets of 1.5 mm PBT keycaps, and a printed jelly bag. "Higround x Attack on Titan" limited edition gaming hardware Higround, the lifestyle and gaming peripheral brand, announced its upcoming Attack on Titan[...]

As we all know, manga is exploding in America because it refuses to kowtow to demands of diversity, especially amongst sexual orientation, that superhero comics have become such a victim of Anyway, with that in mind, here are the Kodansha and Vertical July 2022 solicits and solicitations beginning with a new series Run Away With[...]

Yen Press, is a manga publisher co-owned by Kadokawa Corporation and Hachette Book Group, as well as the Yen On light novel imprint Here are the Yen July 2022 solicits and solicitations, beginning with Jun Mayuzuki's Kowloon Generic Romance.   KOWLOON GENERIC ROMANCE GN VOL 01 YEN PRESS MAY221958 (W) Jun Mayuzuki (A) Jun Mayuzuki Welcome to Kowloon Walled City-a dystopian[...]

The title of the manga is the title of the movie they make together, "Goodbye, Eri." "Goodbye, Eri" panel, Viz Media Goodbye, Eri stands out as a playful, meta examination of memory, loss, grief, and the line between truth and fiction Its reason for telling the story like a movie seen from Yuta's point of view becomes[...]

The adaptation of Tatsuya Ando's manga is one of the most hyped new anime series of the Spring 2022 season "Spy x Family" poster: Crunchyroll Set in a fictional, thinly-disguised,  Cold War world of East-West tensions, Codename: Twilight is the West's greatest spy, a lone wolf operator who can do anything His latest mission demands he poses[...]

With designs, the reference manga and anime that hark back to her "Little Monsters" phase that celebrates outsiders and rebels The Crunchyroll Loves x Lady Gaga streetwear collection will feature a mix of strong palettes and experimental treatments alongside specially-designed artwork from McFlyy The full lineup includes: One gray acid-washed tee featuring the pink and black[...]

ABLAZE Publishing continues to expand its manga catalog with the announcement of Magical Beast Sherbert, a new shojo series written by Rai☆ with artwork by Mochiusagi The manga series is adapted from a 52-episode anime counterpart that is currently in development and will debut in print and digitally worldwide in 2023 from ABLAZE Magical Beast[...]

These include two new novels—Studio Chizu's BELLE and Sugar Apple Fairy Tale; manga adaptations of light novels, The Executioner and Her Way of Life, I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, and Sasaki & Peeps; the launch of three new manga series, Coffee Moon, So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? and She Loves to Cook, and She[...]

In this first of two volumes, we see the beginnings of young Afro's quest, his battles with an array of assassins and warlords, that climaxes in the epic confrontation with the powerful Empty Seven Clan and a showdown with an old enemy… Described by Okazaki as "out of all my work it is my best[...]

As we all know from YouTube commentators, modern American comic books are failing in terms of sales (even though they inexplicable seem to be increasing) because the publishers and creators are just telling a series of woke political lectures, and this is why manga is also increasing sales in America because they don't have any[...]

Takahiro and Yohei Takemura's manga series which has the English name Slave in Japan, known as Demon Slave in France, is now actually being published in English by Yen Press in June 2022 But, for an American market, the publisher seems to have decided that the title, even though in English, may be a little sensitive[...]

June sees Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi's Marvel manga translated and published in English by Viz Media Here are all their solicits for the month. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ MARVELS SECRET REVERSE GN VIZ LLC APR221969 (W) Kazuki Takahashi (A) Kazuki Takahashi In Yu-Gi-Oh![...]

The PARCO department store was closed for renovation, and Katsuhiro Otomo and collage artist Kosuke Kawamura seized on the opportunity to stretch Otomo's landmark manga AKIRA across the barriers separating the construction site from the bustling nightlife of Shibuya, Tokyo When the project was completed, it was 2019: the very year the story of AKIRA[...]

The celebration of Toonami's 25th anniversary has made its way over to the world of a highly anticipated horror anime, Uzumaki based on the manga of the same title by Japanese manga artist Junji Ito. Source: Uzumaki/Twitter If you're a fan of the twisted and insane imagery as well as the storyline of Uzumaki like I am, seeing a[...]

Iconic Events Releasing, a distribution company specializing in special engagement theatrical events, joins with Anime Expo ® to present the first-ever AX Cinema Nights featuring a new full-length anime film adventure adapted from the bestselling manga Screenings will start on May 12th at theaters nationwide On-sale dates and theaters will be announced shortly. Poster art courtesy[...]

The "Dragon Ball" phenomenon began in 1984 in Japan when the original manga series from Akira Toriyama premiered in Shueisha's "Weekly Shonen Jump." It quickly became a top-ranked title throughout its ten and a half years of publication and its popularity has not waned with an astonishing record of 260-million copies sold worldwide and counting[...]

A little more than a month ago, we learned that Netflix, Tomorrow Studios (Netflix's Cowboy Bebop, TNT's Snowpiercer, Amazon Prime's Hanna), and publisher Shueisha's upcoming live-action series based on author Eiichiro Oda's manga One Piece had officially kicked off production Now we're getting a chance to meet the newest cast members, with Morgan Davies (The[...]

Yen Press has announced the voice actors who will be reading three anticipated new audiobook adaptations of beloved light novel series, Spice and Wolf, So

ABLAZE publishing announced two new titles from the East this week: the hit Korean webtoon Heavenly Demon Reborn! and a manga centering on chess that sets out to teach the reader how to play chess like a grandmaster We can certainly get behind that latter title. "Heavenly Demon Reborn!" cover art: ABLAZE HEAVENLY DEMON REBORN!, Vol[...]

These acquisitions included an omnibus edition of Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, and the debut of the manga series Heroine No More, Unnamed Memory, and Gahi-chan! Cover art: Yen Press Josee, the Tiger and the Fish Story by Seiko Tanabe Art by Nao Emoto "Josee has been in a wheelchair since she was a child and has lived her[...]