The trailer of the second season of BEASTars got released today. This one of a kind Shounen is one of the biggest hits of 2019. It proved that a series about anthropomorphic animals still have a market. The author of this hit is Paru Itagaki. She is the daughter of the legendary Keisuke Itagaki, maker […]
If you grew up with Anime serials like Magic Knight Rayearth, Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, and the crossover, Tsubasa Chronicles, then you are already familiar with CLAMP. A group of female Mangaka from the late 1980s to early 2000s who created those classics. These women had been collaborating for decades to make mangas of diverse genres. […]
It’s going to be an eventful summer for manga publisher VIZ Media. The first volume of the official RWBY manga is coming out, as is the seventh volume of Beastars and new books based on the video games Persona and Splatoon. Next month, ask your local small bookseller if any of these are in…they will […]
We know it’s just barely May, but VIZ has a busy June ahead and they announced the full slate of material today. New volumes of Dragon Ball Super, My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer join new property Spy Vs. Family and a tour of Tokyo. Here are some of the highlights from that list, all […]
If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you know that it’s become a lot more difficult to sell certain products…not only because purchasing them would require a lot of people to congregate in one small area, but because most of the bookstores across the US have been closed for this reason. In accordance with […]
What does Viz media have planned for manga fans this May? Two new anticipated releases, one of which stars the most famous non-Gundam giant robots of all. PING PONG VOL. 1: It’s exactly what the title says — a sports manga revolving around table tennis. Makoto “Smile” Tsukimoto and Yutaka “Peco” Hoshino have been playing […]
Kodansha USA Publishing has partnered with izneo, an online comics platform to distribute Kodansha Comics and Vertical’s digital manga catalog, which includes over 2000 English language titles. Manga fans will be able to read series such as Fire Force, Attack on Titan, The Quintessential Quintuplets, The Ghost in the Shell, FAIRY TAIL, Pretty Guardian Sailor […]
The Seven Deadly Sins manga series ended today, with chapter #346 as its send-off. To mark this impressive accomplishment Kodansha and Nakaba Suzuki have announced a sequel series to The Seven Deadly Sins manga, which is tentatively titled The Four Knights of the Apocalypse. More details for the sequel series will be revealed at a […]
Viz Media has a lot of manga on its plate for April, including the long-awaited premiere of The Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions. This is an artbook covering Ito’s entire career with illustrations from some of his most famous to most obscure works, along with rare sketches never before seen. The volume also promises […]
Fire Force, one of this season’s top supernatural anime, is back with new episodes and characters. Join Company 8 and their pyrokinetic soldier, Shinra Kusakabe, as they rush to prevent the citizens of Tokyo from spontaneously combusting and the city from turning to ash! Fire Force is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated […]
Here’s what Viz Media plans to release this November. Start your holiday wish list now…. Viz’s biggest release of the reason is Transformers: A Visual History, a large and heavy volume covering just about everything in Autobot history. The hardcover book contains artwork, animation models, video game designs, comic book pages, and it even covers […]
Manga publisher and anime licensor Viz Media dumped a boatload of news on the press during NYCC, and we’re just now attempting to assemble it all. The first thing they revealed was that they were now publishing manga produced for Disney licenses: Star Wars and Frozen books will be released soon. Specifically, the manga adaption […]