Viz Media released the full list of their titles coming out in November. Once again, it runs the full gamut of Shonen, Shojo, art books, Disney
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Seven Secrets #1 also starts strong on the Back Order List with three different covers on the List, and Red Mother #7 rounding out Boom's entries this week.
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Reports are that original Attack of the Show! host and The Newsroom star Olivia Munn is finalizing a deal to join the G4 network relaunch.
Avatar: The Last Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are no longer involved in Netflix's live-action adaptation.
Yen Press announced a huge list of new acquisitions today, which include several mangas – Cirque Du Freak: The Manga Omnibus Edition, Grim Reaper and Four Girlfriends Omnibus Edition, Interspecies Reviewers Comic Anthology: Darkness, The World's Finest Assasin Reincarnated Into Another World, Adachi and Shimamura, Dear NOMAN, Golden Japanesque – Yokohama Karentan –, Mama Akuma,[...]
1 is a manga spinoff of the hugely popular and successful light novel series The Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime The mothership series spawned a globally popular anime series, a manga series adaptation, and already another manga spinoff The Way of the Monster Nation is yet another manga spinoff.
"That Time I Got Reincarnated[...]
The ever-prolific Yen Press announced 10 new manga and light novel titles for sale in August The usual suspects are here: high school fantasies, medieval fantasies, romances, a Yuri (lesbian) office romance, even an autobiographical manga about pregnancy and motherhood The variety is welcome.
"Fiancé of the Wizard" Vol 1 cover, Yen Press
Fiancé of the Wizard,[...]
Yen Press has launched a new manga series, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Vol 1: The Ways of the Monster Nation The new manga series is a spinoff from the That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime light novel, which has been one of Yen's biggest hits that also spawned a hit anime[...]
During today's Comic-Con@Home virtual panel, publisher VIZ Media interviewed Junji Ito, the acclaimed manga writer and master of horror media During the conversation, the masterful mangaka spoke of varied inspirations and answered questions posed to him by his audience across the globe.
A screencap of the interview with Junji Ito hosted by VIZ Media, featuring the[...]
Shaman King, the classic manga originally serialized in Shõnen Jump two decades ago, is getting new life at ComiXology Originals The series was translated to English by Viz Media but, to the horror of longtime readers, was never completed Publication on the original English-language translation of the series ceased at Volume 32, leaving three volumes from creator[...]
Of course, there's a tie-in manga, a prequel called Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying
Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying cover art from Yen Press
This is not a cheap cash-in on a popular video game franchise Supervised and approved by fromsoftware, Shin Yamamoto writes and draws an existential story about Hanbei, an immortal swordsman[...]
Restaurant to Another World by Junpei Inuzuka and artist Takaaki Kugatsu is an interesting subgenre in fantasy manga An unnamed chef with a restaurant in the heart of contemporary Tokyo serves a special clientele every weekend – the restaurant is a portal to other worlds Fae, mythical creatures, adventurers come from other lands to sample[...]
The ever-prolific Yen Press announced three new manga titles that will be published towards the end of the year This includes two Disney titles, including one based on the hugely popular Kingdom Hearts video game series.
"86-EIGHTY-SIX" manga cover from Yen Press
86 Eighty-Six
Story by Asatao Asato
Artwork by Motoki Yoshihara
Original illustrations by Shirabii
Long besieged by the fully[...]
Quibi continues their fake-it-till-you-make-it strategy and announced an adaptation of Junji Ito's infamous horror manga series Tomie Adeline Rudolph, fresh off filming the final production of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, will play the title character The new production will be written by Aquaman screenwriter David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and European horror producer-director Alexandre Aja, who came[...]
Acquisitions included manga titles, new light novels and an art book.
These titles are all scheduled for release in December 2020.
Overload Artbook cover art from Yen Press
Overlord: The Complete Anime Artbook
By Hobby Book Editorial Department
A deep dive into the planning and making of the hit anime adaption of Overlord reveals delicately crafted settings and the incredible[...]
She emerged in the 2000s as part of a new generation of creators who grew up influenced by manga and anime and carved out their own paths and individual styles She has authored the Nightschool fantasy graphic novels for teens as part of her Weirn Books series, and the wonderful Awkward books about middle-schoolers Yen[...]
Yen Press announced six new books today, which include manga debuts for The White Cat's Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King's Lap, Wolf & Parchment, and Sword Art Online Project Alicization New light novels (Young Adult) titles include A Certain Magical Index SS and Goblin Slayer Side Story II: Dai Katana and a new[...]
Yen Press highlighted their license to publish a new manga series today called Bestia This series is once again an adaptation of a Light Novel (Japanese for Young Adult) fantasy about a young man who discovers a world he didn't know existed lurking beneath the reality he thought he knew.
Bestia Volume 1 cover from Yen[...]
The largest publisher in Japan, Kodansha, has been involved in publishing manga for decades. The large company is associated with Walt Disney and serves as an official sponsor for Tokyo Disneyland and established Kodansha Comics in 2009, bringing its immense manga library to many other countries. Three months ago, izeno, an international online platform, added[...]
In a recent interview with Crunchyroll, Junji Ito, the mangaka (or writer/illustrator) of the acclaimed manga Uzumaki among many others, describes his inspiration for an assortment of his works This interview was conducted at the infamous Winchester Mystery House, known for its ever-expanding array of rooms and its presence in the movie Winchester, as well as meriting a[...]
She created the fantasy world of The Weirn in her Night School graphic novels in 2009, which introduced a universe where young witches, werewolves, and other magical children attend supernatural school.
The Weirn: Be Wary of The Woods cover from Yen Press
Where the Night School books were Young Adult and the art more reminiscent of manga,[...]
Viz Media is publishing RWBY: The Official Manga, an official manga adaptation of Rooster Teeth's popular American CGI anime , this time created by creators in Japan RWBY (pronounced "Ruby") began streaming in 2013 It has since garnered a massive global fanbase whose cosplayers can be seen in every major convention across the US Rooster[...]
Both series achieved success in the Western – mainly US and UK – market in the same way, and it's worth a look at how that works.
In Japan, Manga are Hits First
In Japan, a manga or Light Novel series first becomes a bestseller before the publisher decides to invest in greenlighting an anime series[...]
Manga publisher Yen Press has announced Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying, a new manga series inspired by the hit video game Sekiro: Shadow Dies Twice, which is coming out next week.
Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying synopsis: "Life beyond death…A foolish notion with which to deceive oneself But what happens when death does not come?[...]
The ever-prolific Yen Press announced a new manga series today Restaurant To Another World is written by Junpei Inuzuka with art by Katsumi Enami, who provided artwork for popular light novel series Baccano!
Restaurant To Another World cover art from Yen Press
Yen Press announced the series today on Twitter:
Here in my hands is the classiest isekai[...]
The final chapter of popular manga series The Promised Neverland was posted online by Viz Media on their website just this weekend That's it—the grand finale The entire story has been leading to this Shueisha's (also Viz Media's parent company) Weekly Shonen Jump published the final chapter by Kaiu Shirai and Pozuka Demizu in print[...]
Junji Ito's horror-manga masterpiece Uzumaki is being adapted into a four-part anime, but concerns with their scheduled deadlines due to the COVID-19 have been very apparent Still, it is clear from the following storyboard stills, linked on Twitter from the official Uzumaki anime profile, that its team is on-schedule and still working diligently to ensure that[...]
SYFY WIRE’s newest late-night series The Great Debate is taking viewers behind the scenes, and Bleeding Cool has an exclusive look.
It appears hit Japanese manga series The Promised Neverland will be taking the next step in its on-screen evolution, with Heroes star Masi Oka, writer and director Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse), and Vertigo Entertainment bringing a live-action series to Amazon With Rothman directing and Meghan Malloy (Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse) writing the pilot,[...]
The creator of Attack on Titan, writer-artist Hajime Isayama, declared on a Japanese talk show that he is currently at the final 5% stretch of the manga story.
As reported by Otaku USA Magazine, Isayama was a guest on Shin Joho 7days Newscaster when he said that there is currently about "5%" left of the manga[...]