manga Archives

It started with some serious numbers of what the Anime and Manga channel offers us: over 700 shows, over 23000 He stated they did the math and it equals to a bit over 350 days worth of anime Subtitles in +7 languages and available in 185 countries. They shortly moved on to the Fall Season Anime,[...]

Time to dive into some Masamune Shirow manga in the meantime… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HapT0SKcyfYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Ghost In The Shell (2017) – #1 – Paramount Pictures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HapT0SKcyfY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Tm73m0VZsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Ghost In The Shell (2017) – #2 – Paramount Pictures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Tm73m0VZs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6NJJ6pMKVYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Ghost[...]

Last year Bleeding Cool reported that the sales of the Japanese manga based on the BBC TV show Sherlock has been banned from the USA We theorised that another publisher may be vying for the English language rights to the adaptation. Well, at ComicsPRO, that's exactly what Titan Comics has announced And they will begin with[...]

Spent many a happy evening wolf-transforming in battle. Well, ahead of the game being rereleased in HD for the Wii U, there will be a new manga series based specifically on the world of that game. It will start next week in Japan, and serialised on the MangaOne app, according to artist Akira Himekawa's website[...]

When I first heard about the manga a few years ago, I thought someone had finally decided to turn the meme into an actual series…) For the detailed background of the series, I'll leave it to YouTuber Anime Balls Deep to give you the rundown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjPoEePQVe0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: 10 Things You Didn't[...]

It is traditional each year for the President of Angoulême, the biggest comic art festival in the world, to draw a poster for the show. And so this years

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the UN's special envoy on child protection has called on Japan to ban outright comic book depictions of child sexual acts. Last year, the country banned personal possession of such actual images, but Buquicchio says there are many loopoles which can be exploited, including manga, anime and video games. She states that  "I accept that the[...]

The Ashashi Shinbum reports that lawyers have accused prison officials in Tokyo of discrimination after an inmate was refused comics depicting gay sex. The discrimination comes into play, in that explicit manga featuring heterosexual scenes are not refused for similar inmates. The complaint came from a 45-year-old man in jail for drugging someone and then robbing them[...]

Can someone who can't use magic really become the Wizard King? One thing's for sure – Asta will never give up! The series is also currently featured in WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP magazine. EVERYONE'S GETTING MARRIED · Rated 'M' for Mature Readers · Debuting Summer 2016 In this new Shojo Beat manga series by Izumi Miyazono, successful career woman[...]

A quick tour of the manga titles from One Peace Books., another boutique publishers of manga in America. [youtube]https://youtu.be/Lv6vzzG4r8w[/youtube] Hanging out at lookitmoves@gmail.com Follow the official LOOK! IT MOVES! twitter feed at http://twitter.com/lookitmoves for thoughts and snark on media and pop culture, stuff for future columns and stuff I may never spend a whole column writing about.  Look![...]

A quick tour of the manga titles on offer from Vertical Inc., one of the premiere boutique publishers of manga in America. [youtube]https://youtu.be/GEuVm16GQdw[/youtube] Hanging out at lookitmoves@gmail.com Follow the official LOOK! IT MOVES! twitter feed at http://twitter.com/lookitmoves for thoughts and snark on media and pop culture, stuff for future columns and stuff I may never spend a whole[...]

The Manga Shop Locator Service. As the Comic Shop Locator Service is about to hit its twentieth anniversary, the Manga Shop Locator will showcase retailers who include manga in their product lines, and enable potential customers to find them online quickly and easily. Stores that place a qualifying initial order of manga titles each month will automatically be listed on the locator. They[...]

As with our recent Dragon Girl and Monkey King: The Art of Katsuya Terada, The Art of The Evil Within was an example of a new book that Dark Horse originally designed and published in English working with the Japanese creators, and which was then later published in Japan itself, in a Japanese-language edition. And then Carl[...]

  Kodansha USA have been nice enough to send a review copy of Inuyashiki, the new manga series by Hirokya Oku, the creator of another popular Science Fiction action manga series Gantz, which just ended its 37-volumne English run from Dark Horse Oku creates mainly Seinan series, comics aimed at an older teen, college age and[...]

I've been looking forward to this OGN arriving for some time from Dark Horse and now the wait's nearly over--it'll be in shops next Wednesday on September

This means a same-day experience for an English-speaking audience of the Japanese-debuting installments. Today's release, kicking things off, will include the ongoing manga series: One Piece, Bleach, Blue Exorcist, My Hero Academia, and Food Wars! Shokugeki No Soma. VP of comiXology's Communication & Marketing, Chip Mosher, says: It's amazing we live in an age where it's possible for[...]

Many doujin circles started as amateur hobby groups but ended up achieving mainstream success like Type-Moon, the creators of the Fate/Stay Night and Tsukhime visual novel games, who are now a major production company whose titles have spun off into anime, movie, manga, video games and magazines Many artists began as doujinshi before going pro[...]

Do you think your comic book shop has what it takes to beat all others? You can bet King Comics and Jesse James think they do! As ever, you have to be in it to win it…. The judging and winning announcement will be made by retailers attending the Baltimore Retailer Summit. Best Print Ad/Campaign Best Fundraiser Best PREVIEWS[...]

Thanks to Anime News Network and Eiga.com, we have the statistics that, internationally, the manga series by Hajime Isayama, Attack On Titan has sold more than fifty million copies in total. That breaks down into 44 million copies in Japanese, 2.5 million in English and I reckon a good chunk of that will be in French. Spread over 16 volumes, that's[...]

There is the getting-close-to-100 million volume selling manga, internationally There are the animated adaptations and spinoffs There are the two live-action movies. And now Twitchfilm runs the trailer for the three episode Attack On Titan TV series that acts as a prequel to the movies, airing from August 15th in Japan which" revolves around the Hanji character and[...]

At Otakon today, Kodansha Comics took the opportunity to announce three new titles from the publisher from next year. They kicked off with Queen Emeraldas, a space opera manga by Leiji Matsumoto serialised in Weekly Shonen in the seventies but never translated to English – officially at least It did however inspire an anime in the nineties which was[...]

One particular minefield has been representation of transgender characters since there is so much confusion and ignorance with a few writes landing themselves in hot water in the past month. The issue of representation has reminded me of a manga that ran from 1996 to 2000 by Tsukasa Hojo, creator of Cat's Eye, the female cat[...]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn

Adi Tantimedh writes, With all the DC and Marvel movie and TV announcements at the con, you wouldn't think there were manga announcements to be made as well, and there are a few big ones. Kodansha announced that the US edition of volume 16 of Attack on Titan would have a special edition with a new cover[...]

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Correspondent Dark Horse Manga Publicity Coordinator Steve Sunu introduced editors Brendan Wright and Philip Simon and Director of Asian Licensing Michael Gombos to discuss upcoming manga series in the Dark Horse Manga panel held Thursday evening. The panel started the hour with introducing the audience to Hiroaki Samura's Blade the Immortal, a[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes, July sees the start of the Summer Anime Season with dozens of new and returning shows being broadcast in Japan and streamed on internet services like Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Hulu. The anime industry and the manga/book market are an impeccably-linked symbiotic process: when a Light novel (Young Adult) or manga series gets popular enough,[...]

Taking up the entire Los Angeles Convention Center, talent from around the world come each year the first week of July to celebrate all things anime, manga and popular Japanese culture The Anime Expo provides attendees the opportunity to learn and immerse oneself into anime (cartoons) and manga (graphic novels read right to left) which[...]

Here we go… the first look at the Attack On Titan movies based on the highly popular manga series and the 3D manoeuvre military systems within…. [youtube]https://youtu.be/Viqy8VflTyA[/youtube] Thanks to Anime News Network for the translation: Narrator: Over 100 years ago… Narrator: Most of humanity was consumed by the Titans who suddenly appeared. Text: Titans who suddenly appeared, consuming humanity Narrator: Civilization collapsed. Narrator:[...]

There has been lots of fuss regarding the Japanese publication of an English language version of their manga adaptation of the BBC Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss Sherlock series, using the text from the original TV show Rather than translating back from the translated Japanese. On its announcement, Sherlock fans in the USA went kinda nuts and tried[...]

China’s state news media stated yesterday that the government is to ban 38 Japanese comics and animated series for what they describe as “severely