manga Archives

Today, Kodansha and Humble Bundle launched the Humble Manga Bundle: Spring 2021 Anime Season on Humble Bundle through April 29, 2021 While waiting for new episodes to air this Spring, anime fans can enjoy up to a whopping $930 worth of epic manga ebooks such as That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime Vol[...]

Urusawa's use of large panels and wide-open spaces makes the book feel even more like a movie than most manga There's a Capra-esque and European feel to the story He keeps a light touch as he juxtaposes a disaster movie scenario with funny, goofy characters pulling together. Giant monsters, or dai kaiju, are considered a force[...]

Musician Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak Collection and VIZ Media have teamed up again to release a second apparel line featuring the iconic Naruto Shippuden anime.

Magnetic Press has announced their latest exciting Kickstarter graphic novel campaign to follow their successful offerings of PARIS 2119, ASTER OF PAN, BRINDILLE, WAHCOMMO, and MONOLITH  — a dark sci-fi fantasy tale for grown-ups called SMALL WORLD, written by JD MORVAN and illustrated by celebrated mangaka TORU TERADA! "Small World" Kickstarter key art, Magnetic Press Described as "a Cyberpunk fairytale" and "Peter Pan meets Akira," Small World mixes elements of[...]

In Episodes 14-16 of Jujutsu Kaisen "Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event," things get personal between the Tokyo and Kyoto schools.

Kodansha announced their slate of manga titles coming in Fall 2021 on their Kodansha Live on Wednesday The new titles and artwork are listed below. "When Will Ayumu Make His Move?" key art, Kodansha When Will Ayumu Make His Move? By Soichiro Yamamoto Cover Price: $12.99 The new will they-won't they romance from the creator of Teasing Master Takagi-san is here! Ayumu is[...]

The fifth season of anime My Hero Academia (adapted from the original manga Boku no Hiro Akademia) is being simulcast on Funimation, coinciding with the release of the anime series in Japan Though Funimation does have SimulDub, which is their own in-house dubbing released episode by episode as the show currently airs, there's no timeline[...]

Viz Media released their complete list of May 2021 manga titles Once again, it's a massive list with a myriad range of genres, no surprise considering they're the biggest manga publisher in America. Shonen Jump "Undead Unluck Vol 1" cover, Viz Media Undead Unluck, Vol 1 Story and Art by Yoshifumi Tozuka All Fuuko wants is a whirlwind romance[...]

15, the latest volume of the iconic manga series by Kiyohiko Azuma, will be published in September 2021. With the most recent volume of Yotsuba&! published in 2018, fans all over the world have waited eagerly for the continuation of this heartwarming slice-of-life story featuring eternal 5-year-old Yotsuba. "Yotsuba&! Vol 15", cover art courtesy of Yen Press Yotsuba&![...]

This light novel series is the basis of the I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss manga set to debut this coming July. "No Game No Life Practical War Game" cover courtesy of Yen Press No Game No Life Practical War Game Story by Yuu Kamiya Before the creation of Disboard, a world where everything is decided[...]

Netflix unveiled the trailer for the eagerly-awaited upcoming Japanese movie Ride or Die, an adaptation of Nakamura Ching's acclaimed yuri manga Gunjo It stars Kiko Mizuhara and Honami Sato as the couple on the run Acclaimed director Ryuichi Hiroki is director, and rock musician Haruomi Hosono (Happy End, Yellow Magic Orchestra)  composes the theme song. Still[...]

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is another zombie apocalypse manga in a genre that's never going to end Fortunately, it offers a new and hilarious take on how certain types of people survive in a zombie apocalypse. "Zom 100" cover courtesy of Viz Media. Akira Tenna is dying inside He's gone from a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed[...]

The ever-prolific Yen Press released the cover art and pre-order links for 6 manga titles coming out in April and May today. "Sasaki and Miyano Vol 2" cover, Yen Press Sasaki and Miyano, Vol 2 By Syou Harusono We know many of you can't wait for more Sasaki and Miyano Truth be told, we can't wait, either! The cover[...]

In fact it may be Marvel's most-read comic book of all right now, getting Keanu Reeves BRZRKR numbers. Deadpool: Samurai by Sanshirou Kasama and Hikaru Uesugi is the Deadpool manga that launched last year in Japan in collaboration with Shonen JUMP and that it will debut new Marvel characters, as previously happened with Marvel's Chinese publications, Aero and[...]

The Strange Tale Of Panorama Island, an adults-only manga by Suehiro Maruo, is based on a story by Edogawa Ranpo (a pseudonym for Tarō Hirai, also a nod to Edgar Allan Poe), wasn't even on my radar until Deb Aoki retweeted it I didn't recognize any of the authors, but the cover and one page[...]

Viz Media announced this week that they would be publishing Beast Complex, a one-volume spinoff manga to the popular funny anime manga series Beastars by Paru Itagaki The series is a high school drama with a difference – it's set in a world of anthropomorphized animals where the population is divided into two classes: carnivores[...]

Netflix has released the trailer for The Way of the Househusband, a comedy anime adapted from the popular manga about a former Yakuza gangster turned domestic spouse Kousuke Oono's manga began its run in 2018 and is currently being published in English by Viz Media Tatsu used to be a legendary and much-feared Yakuza, a[...]

"Chibi" is certainly a Japanese manga and anime trope or subgenre where characters are redrawn as small and cute to denote a more light-hearted and humorous version of a series It's often a subgenre designed to appeal to children and younger viewers Chibi is all about cuteness So you can expect Avatar: The Last Airbender—Chibi[...]

Kodansha announced that the spinoff of the hit manga series The Seven Deadly Sins will be getting a simultaneous digital release of its serialized chapters at the same time as Japan The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse from master mangaka Nakaba Suzuki launched on Wednesday with new chapters released weekly same-day-as-Japan[...]

Kodansha released details for 4 new manga titles they will release digitally in April these new digital debuts, as well as returning favorites, will be available upon release across all our participating digital vendors, including Bookwalker, ComiXology, Google Play, Kindle, Nook, and izneo. Kodansha April 2021 key art Girlfriend, Girlfriend By Hiroyuki "Girlfriend, Girlfriend" Vol[...]

It's normal to expect all sorts of tie-ins to Frozen 2: kid's picturebooks, novelisations for young readers, and when a Disney movie is hugely popular in Japan, it gets a manga adaptation as well What you don't expect is that veteran mangaka Arina Tanemura makes it feel like a personal project. "Frozen 2" manga cover, Viz[...]

It's Valentine's Day, and what better comics to celebrate with than manga from Viz Media! Let's face it, no comics in the world do romance better than manga Every other romance comic in the last 20 years has been heavily influenced by manga. To celebrate, Viz Media has sent along with their 5 latest recommendations for[...]

STONE is one of the most out-there manga and anime series around right now It takes place hundreds of years from now, after everyone in the world had been turned to rocks in a mysterious apocalyptic event High school Science, prodigy Senku, is one of the first to revive He sets out to rebuild the[...]

Live action adaptations of manga are different in Japan They tend to be at least 80% faithful to the original source material When there are costumes, the adaptations do their best to create faithful live action versions of the characters' look Every Japanese live action adaptation of a manga is instantly recognizable from the manga[...]

Popular mangaka Rei Toma's new series The King's Beast Vol 1 hits the ground running with a tale of palace intrigue, assassination, class warfare, secret identities, romance, and revenge Set in the same fantasy world as her previous bestselling manga Dawn of the Arcana, The King's Beast is a darker, more intense tale. "The King's Beast[...]

New York Times bestselling creator Rei Toma has a new manga series, The King's Beast, launching in English this week Her publisher Viz Media just announced that they are offering a digital sale of her previous, hugely popular series, The Water Dragon's Bride and The Dawn of the Arcana, on their official Twitter feed. Rei Toma[...]

There hasn't been a new collection of the Death Note manga series in almost fifteen years But next week will see the surprise publication in Japan of Death Note Short Stories.  Death Note Short Stories will collect, for the first time, a series of one-shot chapters spanning over 17 years of creation, as well as a series of[...]

 Attack on Titan is the big anime franchise that singlehandedly saved both the manga and the anime market in the West When it premiered in 2013, the anime and manga worlds were looking a bit lackluster with old genres and tropes, and its high concept intensity captured the imaginations of fans worldwide It is the[...]

Yen Press has announced a slate of upcoming titles that include manga (The Eminence in Shadow, Farewell to My Alter, The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except for Me, I'm the Villainous Daughter, So I'm Keeping the Last Boss, The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious and Captivated, By You) and light novels (The[...]

Viz Media announced the launch of The King's Beast, the sequel to the New York Times Bestselling manga fantasy series Dawn of the Arcana The fantasy world of Dawn of the Arcana returns in The King's Beast on February 2nd. Courtesy of Viz Media Dawn of the Arcana introduced a world of fantasy, romance, and palace intrigue: "Princess[...]