Manga: it ain’t just about the laughs. One of the most appealing parts of the medium, as our readers well know, is the wide range of genres it spans, and with it, the wide range of emotions it can ...

One of Japan’s most celebrated and beloved comic book and anime creations, Urusei Yatsura delivered a total of just under 200 high-voltage weekly blasts of supernatural-and-alien-augmented ...

Deep down, zombie stories are rarely about the undead themselves. Rather, they offer an opportunity to examine humanity under a unique lens. And Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is no different… ...

A poster that has the Japanese Red Cross Society teaming up with manga Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai! has stirred up debate online. The poster encourages readers to donate blood with a picture of Uzaki-chan ...

Sasaki and Miyano volume 1, a BL manga rated Teen, was recently banned district-wide by Florida’s Brevard County Public School Board. This occurred after a mother who hadn’t read the book put in an ...

The BL light novel series The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter (a.k.a. Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai in Japanese) is receiving a manga adaptation, and it’s getting an anime ...

Manga in America have age ratings like All Ages or 16+, but who decides these ratings, how do they decide them, and how consistent are they? Some schools have pulled manga from the shelves over ...

Shirobako has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the anime season: a delightful office comedy about the work of actually putting together anime. This is a very meta premise, with more than its ...

A bummer for fans of light novels like World Teacher and Welcome to the Outcast’s Restaurant!. Tentai Books, which has been publishing English-translated light novels since 2020, is closing its ...

Between the new City Hunter movie on Netflix and an upcoming Cat’s Eye anime adaptation, it’s a big couple of years for Tsukasa Hojo fans. His two biggest series have always been popular, but they’re ...

One Reiji Miyajima series deserves the company of another, and that’s exactly what we’re getting in a new piece of art that mixes the creator’s The Shiunji Family Children and Rent-a-Girlfriend. Both ...

Famitsu, one of Japan’s top gaming magazines, has compiled a big survey of Japan’s gamer population in 2024 and compared it to the same numbers from a decade ago (2015 was seriously 10 years ago?).