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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[...]

And this rebooted version of Holmes is hilarious in the way that only manga and Japanese fan culture can be Hell, they put him right on the cover! "Moriarty the Patriot" vol 2 cover art courtesy of Viz Media Volume 2 of the series finds young James Moriarty still setting up his network of operatives and ironing[...]

Then, Legoshi receives a gruesome offer to help him prevail in his battle with Riz… March 16, 2021 Teen+ $12.99 Courtesy of Viz Media RWBY: The Official Manga, Vol 2 Story and Art by Bunta KinamiBased on the Rooster Teeth series created by Monty OumRuby's first year at Beacon Academy continues! Team RWBY has officially formed, and Ruby Rose is[...]

Attack on Titan is approaching its end, both the original manga and the anime series The anime is currently adapting the start of the story's final act originally serialized in the manga series The manga itself is literally hitting its endgame final chapters Fans have been wondering how many chapters the manga had left, considering[...]

Remina is one of Junji Ito's latest horror manga stories, and it's utterly nuts In a good way A horror story should be utterly insane, nightmarish, and irrational Ito understands this better than most storytellers He might have taken a few years off horror to draw a manga about his cat, but he's come back[...]

Kodansha USA, the publisher of some of the most popular manga series in English, has expanded its partnership with INKR Comics, the new comics reading and publishing app, to increase its current library of fan-favorite manga to over 400 volumes This week marks the debut of popular series including Attack on Titan, To Your Eternity,[...]

On the 3rd of May, 2019, Marvel EIC C.B. Cebulski tweeted out "The last comic to sell a million copies was Star Wars #1, which was almost five years ago.

The manga has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and is currently enjoying an anime adaptation The prequel will be by Gege Akutami and released on January 5th, 2021. "Jujutsu Kaisen 0" cover art courtesy of Viz Media Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is the supernatural story that sparked the creation of the Jujutsu Kaisen series Set a year[...]

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[...]