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Chainsaw Man, Tatsuki Fujimoto's wildly popular and bloodily ultraviolent manga series, ended with its final chapter this week but turned out to be just the end of "Part One: Public Safety Arc." There will be a sequel series coming in the new year. "Chainsaw Man" Vol 1 cover, Viz Media The concluding chapter to Chainsaw Man was[...]

They're not prose adaptations of the manga or anime stories, but brand-new, original stories In Japan, popular manga series become full-on multimedia franchise factories, and apart from anime, toys, and merchandise, prose spinoffs are also commonplace It makes sense Fans can't get enough of their favourite series and characters, so light novels – the Japanese[...]

Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution is a partial sequel to the groundbreaking 80s manga and anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena Unfortunately, unless you've followed the original series, you'll probably feel lost at sea with After the Revolution "Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution" covert art, Viz Media The original series was a groundbreaking LGBTQ fantasy[...]

Spice and Wolf fans can celebrate the beloved manga series with Holo once again with Good Smile Company The company has put up a rerelease of their 10th Anniversary statue featuring the wonderful and adorable Holo The statue is based on Juu Ayakura's specially drawn illustration that was made for the 10th Anniversary of Spice[...]

And minor Urusawa is still fun. "Sneeze" by Naoki Urusawa, cover art from Viz Media. Urusawa is a sort of Alan Moore-esque manga creator best known for long-running series like Pineapple Army, Yawara!, and the latter deconstructionist epics Pluto, which reimagined an old Astro Boy story into a Science Fiction saga about war crimes and atonement, Monster,[...]

I wonder why they don't mention there was a manga series as well, drawn by Ryoichi Ikegami, creator of Crying Freeman, in one of his first-ever jobs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8cnPDNyF9cVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Marvel's 616 | Japanese Spider-Man | Disney+ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8cnPDNyF9c) The show ran from May 1978 to March 1979[...]

Hajime Isayama reported on Sunday that his megahit manga series Attack on Titan is now about 1 to 2% away from completion This means the manga is just months away from publishing its finale. "Attack on Titan" vol 1 cover art, Kodansha Anime News Network found the Nishi Nippon Shimbun report, where Isayama spoke at the unveiling[...]

King of Eden is a new horror manga written by Naoki Urusawa's frequent co-author Takashi Nagasaki Nagasaki was the co-writer of Urusawa's most recent hit series, including Monster, 20th Century Boys, Master Keaton, Billy Bat, and Osamu Tezuka's reimagining's Astroboy storyline Pluto. "King of Eden" Vol 1 cover courtesy of Yen Press. The series is actually another take on the zombie[...]

Josei manga, or manga for an adult female audience, is still rare in the US My Broken Mariko by Waka Hirako is special not just for being that rarity but also in its unique story and tone It's an explosive wail of grief and pain with madcap humour and raw emotion. Editor's Note: Adding a trigger[...]

Available on iOS, Google Play and through web browsers, they have signed up a number of manga publishers What is especially impressive is that they used to be comic book pirates. How INKR Switched From Comics Piracy To Global Digital Publishing Beginning as a college project in 2009, Manga Rock was one-stop app for scanlations – scanned[...]

Viz Media officially released their list of manga titles coming out in February 2021. Shonen Jump "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" cover art, Viz Media JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 4–Diamond Is Unbreakable, Vol 8 Story and Art by Hirohiko Araki What kind of weirdo lives on a transmission tower?! An all-new enemy Stand attempts to trap, outwit and eliminate Josuke Higashikata[...]

One Piece is approaching a very special and impressive milestone —1,000 chapters of the manga! After more than 20 years of continuous weekly serialization, the manga will hit its 1,000th chapter very soon Of course, Viz Media is going to celebrate this historic occasion! "One Piece," Viz Media Eiichiro Oda premiered his goofy pirate adventure manga back in[...]

Gunjo, Nakamura Ching's cult lesbian manga series, is getting a live-action movie adaptation from Netflix that will premiere in Spring 2021 Crunchyroll reported that the title of the movie will be Kanojo (translation: "She") It will star Kiko Mizuhara and Honami Sato as the couple on the run Acclaimed director Ryuichi Hiroki is attached to[...]

Comixology and Kodansha Comics announced the release of volumes 23-33 of the international bestseller The Drops of God manga series in English for the first time These 11 new volumes join the 22 previously released, all of which can be read digitally as part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive content at no additional cost for[...]

The series has spawned manga and anime spinoffs The relaunch of the iconic series will start with The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya, scheduled for January 2021 release Two additional volumes will be released every month from February 2021 to May 2021. Yen Press also announced the print release of The[...]

Yen Press LLC announced a new slate of upcoming titles at a virtual panel, "The Yen Press Manga and Light Novel Party" during New York Comic Con Metaverse These acquisitions included manga (Hana-chan and the Shape of the World, Please Put Them On, Takamine-san!!, In Another World With My Smartphone, Can't Stop Cursing You, Sex[...]

The only place in the big three of major comic cultures in the world that thrived in this niche was Asia, where comics made by women and for women have been consistently successful and mainstream, even to the point of reaching American audiences and becoming household names. Osamu Tezuka from Japan, dubbed as the "Godfather of[...]

Venus in the Blind Spot is the latest collection of short stories by horror manga master Junji Ito Viz Media gave him the deluxe treatment with a gorgeous hardcover collection that includes colour pages There's no commentary on the stories, but the selection is actually a tour of Ito's mind as they reveal his influences[...]

Yen Press announced a new slate of upcoming titles that include the manga series When a Magician's Pupil Smiles and Goblin Slayer Side Story II: Dai Katana and both the light novel series and manga adaptation of I Was a Bottom-Tier Bureaucrat for 1,500 Years, and the Demon King Made Me a Minister. "When a Magician's[...]

Viz Media's Urian Brown (Marketing) and Karla Clark (Manga Editor) discuss anime and manga for NYCC x MCM Metaverse The panel started up with a message to the viewers from none other than the creator of Beastars, Paru Itagaki Brown and Clark then proceeded to discuss recently premiered as well as upcoming manga and anime[...]

This special boxed set includes exclusive prints and a poster featuring gorgeous art by abec! With two beautiful collector's edition volumes, this boxed set is an absolute must-have for fans of the series! And there are millions of fans worldwide. For nearly a decade, Sword Art Online has been one of the most beloved franchises in[...]

Chainsaw Man is a violent, crazy, gory, surreal manga about a man who becomes chainsaws to kill demons, as you do Denji is one of society's lost people Practically homeless, he earns his keep by hunting and killing devils with help from his cute chainsaw demon pet Pochita When he's betrayed by his Yakuza boss,[...]

Of course, the Japanese would reimagine Moriarty as a bishonen, aka, androgynous, beautiful boy! What sets this manga retcon apart is its political anger and class warfare There are plenty of manga and anime that take a leftist political stance, but very few that wears its "EAT THE RICH!" rage on its sleeve the way[...]

Viz Media announced a new Jujutsu Kaisen special event by unlocking the manga series' first seven chapters free to read on the Shonen Jump website and app for a week starting October 2nd in order for fans to get ready for the brand new anime premiering in the same month. Page from "Jujutsu Kaiden", Viz Media As[...]

Yen Press announced the release of a new horror manga King of Eden, written by Naoki Urusawa's frequent co-author Takashi Nagasaki Nagasaki was the co-writer of Urusawa's most recent hit series, including Monster, 20th Century Boys, Master Keaton, Billy Bat and his reimagining of Osamu Tezuka's Astroboy storyline Pluto. "King of Eden" Vol[...]

Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams is another unusual manga by Naoki Urusawa It's a satire about dreamers and con men, an art heist caper, a Magical Realist tale about romantic yearning, art lovers, and second chances with some political commentary thrown in It's like a stew cooked from lots of leftover ingredients and spices. "Mujirushi: The[...]

The first volume of Viz Media's Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo established the premise and tone of the series. A spy forms a fake family as cover for his

VIZ Media, America's leading pop culture publisher and producer of Japanese manga and animation in North America announced today Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon is coming to Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Hulu on October 3, 2020 The series is an anime-only sequel to Rumiko Takahashi's classic manga and anime series Inuyasha The original manga series ran from 1996 to[...]

Tohru also learns more about herself and how to be loved. The original shoujo ("young girls") manga by Natsuki Takaya ran from 1998 to 2006 Its 136-chapter run was collected into 23 takubon paperbacks, and its original English translation by Tokyo Pop established it as one of the most popular shoujo manga series in the West[...]

They also released a new English-subtitled trailer. "Burn the Witch" key art, Viz Media. Burn the Witch is Kubo's first new manga work since his manga saga Bleach ended in 2016 after running for 15 years The new series is not a sequel but takes place in another corner of the same universe as Bleach with an[...]