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While Captain America may be getting the stick from the conservative media right now, I wonder what Fox & Friends would think of the new issue Prez,

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.

  Office is the latest movie from Johnny To to get worldwide simulataneous release, and like his last movie, Drug War, is getting rave reviews from

Xbox has never had a substantial presence in Japan The rise of mobile gaming as the predominant platform hasn't helped, nor has the country's internal business bias Sony and Nintendo have whatever share of the shrinking home console market there is. I didn't realise things were this bad though As pointed out by 4gamer (via Kotaku),[...]

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 improper content" regarding the use of violence and terror. These include the international hit comics Attack On Titan and Death Note as well as the cartoon TV series Terror in Resonance. Dozens of[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes, Oh Japan, don't ever change At the corner of my mind's eye, Assassination Classroom has been lingering like that weird kid at the back of class who cracks strange jokes to get everyone's attention He's so weird that he's impossible to ignore The entire setting and mood of the series is completely absurd:[...]

The show was made in the darkest period of the 1970s and sought to reassure its child audience as part of Japanese pop culture's own domestication of nuclear power at a time when the idea of Armageddon was on everyone mind It said you could still dance and laugh even if an atomic cloud explodes[...]

Emi Lenox's (Emitown) next project is a travelogue named "Tadaima," (translates to "I'm home") and is a graphic novel about her trip to Japan spending 7 days with her mother, visiting her Grandmother's tomb.The book is done in watercolors and will be hand lettered. It should be out this summer. Emi Lenox's (Emitown) next project is a travelogue[...]

The hero is a half-English, half-Japanese former SAS man turned archaeology lecturer and insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London He's an underdog Even though he's smart and sharp as a pin and able to improvise and fight his way out of any situation, he's a humble, low-key guy He doesn't make much as a lecturer,[...]

 Adi Tantimedh writes,   Viz Media, one of the biggest publishers of manga and anime in the US, have had a prose imprint called Haikasoru running at full steam for a few years now, yet there have been very few write-ups about it aside from the odd review of the books here and there. I'd been meaning to[...]

This is the cover of Brutus, the Japanese magazine featuring an Attack On Titan/Avengers crossover  Positioned as a "What If?" tale, it will involve an attack of the Female Titan on the streets of Manhattan, and the Avengers defending against her. The cover shot of the magazine ignores all this of course and instead prefers to[...]

In Japan Want a teaser? pic.twitter.com/9AF5fqWLfX — C.B Cebulski (@CBCebulski) November 3, 2014 More as we get it I loved "Marvel Team-Up" and "What If?" as a kid I would spend hours dreaming up my own crossovers & alternate reality stories (cont.) — C.B Cebulski (@CBCebulski) November 3, 2014   As I got more into manga, I always imagined how[...]

It's not that its melodramatic depictions of violence, sadism and persecution are new in manga and anime, it's that it takes that combination to a particularly hysterical level, full of R-rated levels of gory violence and torture that have to be censored for Japanese TV broadcast where a whole section of the screen has to[...]

We mentioned this the other day, but the Japanese release of the manga Attack On Titan vol 15 and 16, in December and April, will each come with an original video anime, based on the manga and novel Attack On Titan: No Regrets. And here's the trailer… [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2XXbgIu4PU[/youtube] [...]

This week will see the release of Guardians of the Galaxy in Japan and director James Gunn took to twitter to let everyone know about these very different trailers they are using to sell the film over there Seems promoters are betting on the appeal of Rocket and Groot to fill theater seats.   Hilarious Japanese trailers[...]

We ran shots of a Batman riding the Japanese Chiba expressway earning him the sobriquet Chibatman, the other night. Well, the national obsession over the man has landed him an interview. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zmYcQfI1mY[/youtube] Apparently he's a 41 year old welder who drives his converted Batmobile to work and back[...]

Princess Jellyfish is a manga comic written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura, first published in 2008. It was adapted into a one series anime in 2010

No explanation given. No explanation needed. 千葉の高速にバットマンがいた笑 こんな人いるのかよΣ（・□・；） pic.twitter.com/e8gbq7T9mv— りゅーちゃん (@snsd_mumin) August 24,

A big thank you to Hatena Yagami who saw our original post and asked to help out. So here are the first pages of the Disney prequel manga to the Big Hero

We mentioned that Big Hero 6 was getting a prequel manga series, starring Baymax, but that it would only be published in Japan and not the USA… where it seems no one is publishing Big Hero 6 comics ahead of the movie, new or old. Well, here's how it's looking… Anyone fancy offering a translation? [...]

The August edition of the Japanese manga magazine CoroCoro aimed at school boys is always the most popular, as it is timed to coincide with summer break Add to that, the Obon national holiday week in Japan, and the publisher's always print big numbers, with special gifts and sections of the magazine. Such as special content[...]

Spider-Man is headlining a new line of Sofubi soft vinyl figures from Japan. They previously ran these equally distressing DC characters, in a retro freaking-out style. Seriously, are they being designed by Dan Clowes or something? Well now it's Marvel's time. You can buy spidey direct from Japan for $84 plus shipping But you can also buy[...]

That's no surprise considering Nihei is, unusually for a Japanese gamer, a reputed fan of Western video games like Halo and Metro 2033. I'd wondered how Nihei could possibly top himself after the intense craziness of Biomega and the answer seems to be that he can't Instead, he seems to have taken a step back, possibly[...]

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers is a new Japanese TV series to be created by Disney Japan and will air in the Spring next year. Produced by long standing Tokyo studio, Toei Animation, it will be a fully localised Japanese series, with Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Spider-Man and a group of teens fighting Loki's[...]

I pulled up a YouTube clip of Stan Lee so she could see what our former boss was like these days, but it turned out she'd already seen it as part of the recent PBS documentary on superheroes. BIG IN JAPAN Apparently there will be big new from Marvel out of Japan today What, I have no[...]

What you may not know is that Wikia has grown into a central web hub for anime and manga fandom, a place for the fans to gather and share news, even post fanfiction. The Masters of Animanga writing project took Wikia to the next level: Wikia engaged a group of professional manga and anime masters from[...]

AND WIN! 32 PGS./Rated T …$3.99 And this is the cover: Why, in a story taking place in part of China, are all the Avengers (other than Shang-chi) dressed up in Japanese-inspired costumes? We asked Adi Tantimedh who told us; Spider-Woman's faux-schoolgirl uniform costume is definitely a fetish cod-Japanese costume riff There are no sailor schoolgirl uniforms in China[...]

Contrary to popular opinion, not everyone in Japan thinks that porn comics are just one of life's things. This week an unemployed 44 year old man from Kobe, was charged with taking pages of his hand drawn erotic manga, and sticking them under the windscreen wipers of parked cars It's alleged he'd been doing this kind[...]

The fools. The Avengers Tagline Stirs Up Controversy in Japan The Avengers isn't out in Japan yet, but will be later this week However, the flick's Japanese tagline is making a few people at least very, very upset. In Japanese, the film's tagline is 日本よ、これが映画だ or "Hey Japan, this is a movie" While some might think that seems[...]