It wasn’t that long ago that the final chapter of The Seven Deadly Sins manga appeared in the US, so why are we talking about another one? Well, if you think Nakaba Suzuki would have ended what has been one of the most successful manga/anime properties of the last few years COMPLETELY, you haven’t been […]
More comics/manga news today: digital comics service Comixology has announced an expanded deal with Kodansha Comics that adds over 600 additional manga volumes to the former’s library. (The same deal was also made with Kindle Unlimited if you have that.) This deal includes the newer volumes of titles like Attack on Titan Before the Fall, […]
Aside from a sparse number of wild success stories, the outlook for comics creators on the Web has been dismal ever since the early days of dial-up. It usually involves laboring over your art for hours, failing at deadlines, begging your handful of readers for cash, and not getting it. But recently a number of […]
Attention aficionados of all things right-to-left: Kodansha Comics has sent us a list of the manga they plan to publish in the US this March. It’s a good mix of established and new, fantasy and slice-of-life, respectable and embarrassing, etc. You also don’t have to brave a trip to the bookstore (if it’s open) to […]
Viz has a lot of manga coming out next month, and they asked us to pass on the word. They’re calling attention to three volumes in particular, one original, one based on a movie and one based on a game. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Vol. 1 The life has just been about […]
American manga distributor Kodansha USA has announced it’s entering a partnership with INKR. If you’ve never heard of it, but assume it’s some new app, you’re right. INKR was created by a Vietnamese team working for a Singaporean company, and its aim is to do for manga what Netflix did for TV…a steady stream of […]
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 […]