Including I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness, Boichi's ORIGIN, Virgin Love, Osamu Dazai's The Girl Who Became a Fish― Kodansha USA Publishing confirmed on Thursday that it has acquired the following new manga titles: Title: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Chat Noir Author(s): Koma Warita (story), Riku Tsuchida (illustration), ZAG with Toei Animation (original...
Classroom of the Elite, Ascendance of a Bookworm, more top rankings― The 2023 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel Is Amazing!) guidebook reported its list of the top light novel series on Thursday. Bunkobon rankings: Author Syougo Kinugasa and illustrator Shunsaku Tomose's Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 Author Hiromu and illustrator raemz' Chitose-kun is in the Ra...
Final Fantasy XIV, Pokemon Legends Arceus, Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, FromSoftware also win awards― The Golden Joystick Awards 2022 ceremony announced this year's winners on Wednesday, and Bandai Namco Entertainment and FromSoftware's Elden Ring action RPG won four awards. The game won Best Visual Design, Best Multiplayer Game, Critics' Choice Awards, and Ultimate Game of the Year. FromS...
Daisuke Namikawa, Tatsuhisa Suzuki voice characters for anime premiering in January― The official website for NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a, the television anime adaptation of Square Enix and Platinum Games' NieR:Automata action role-playing game, began streaming a new short promotional video on Friday that highlights the characters Adam (voiced by Daisuke Namikawa) and Eve (voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki). Th...
Police: My Hero Academia, Promised Neverland's performer caused bodily injury on female acquaintance― The Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested Yūya Arai, the singer-songwriter better known as Kiro Akiyama, for alleged battery against a female acquaintance on Wednesday, November 23 shortly after midnight. The 26-year-old suspect reportedly caused bodily injury on the woman in her 20s at his Shibuya apa...
If you enjoyed Somali and the Forest Spirit, there's a very good chance that you will like Ichi Yukishiro's The Skull Dragon's Precious Daughter.― There is one very obvious comparison to be made here, and it's actually one that holds up pretty well across these two volumes: if you enjoyed Somali and the Forest Spirit, there's a very good chance that you will like Ichi Yukishiro's The Skull Dragon's ...
Rio Tsuchiya stars in youth anime about girls pole dancing― Tatsunoko Production revealed a new original pole dancing-themed anime project on Friday titled Pole Princess!!, including the anime's cast, staff, visual, and promotional video. Avex Pictures and Tatsunoko Pro are both credited for the original work. Hitomi Ezoe (episode director for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise, Kageki Shoujo!!, Uta...
3rd season of anime based on ONE's manga premiered on October 5― The official website for Mob Psycho 100 III, the third season of the television anime of ONE's Mob Psycho 100 manga, began streaming a new promotional video for the anime's final arc on Thursday. The anime premiered on October 5 on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji and on October 7 on Cartoon Network in Japan. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime wor...
Hirotaka Mori directs anime at Production I.G― The official website for the television anime adaptation of Masakazu Ishiguro's Heavenly Delusion (Tengoku Dai Makyō) manga revealed a teaser promotional video and the show's full staff on Friday. Hirotaka Mori (episode director for Joker Game, unit director for Psycho-Pass film) is directing the anime at Production I.G. Makoto Fukami (Psycho-Pass, Scho...
The Weakest Tamer probably didn't need to be an isekai story in the first place, but it offers an entertaining story of a girl and her trash-eating slime nonetheless.― If there's any one piece of this novel that stands to be controversial, it's the fact that it's isekai. That's not because isekai is inherently bad or a divisive topic in general; by this point I daresay all of us know where we stand ...
It's not your imagination—there are fewer shoujo anime adaptations than ever. Kim explains the factors behind the genre's long-term decline.― Matt asked: Back when I was growing up (US circa ~2000s), it felt like shoujo anime were a powerhouse of the medium, closely on par with their shonen counterparts, assuming popularity at anime clubs and conventions was representative. Now in the far future of...
Akiman is a renowned character designer who was called upon to help create the world and cast of Star Ocean 6: The Divine Force. We were lucky enough to sit down with the famed artist to ask him a few questions about his time working on the game.― Best known for his design work in Capcom's Street Fighter games, Akiman is a renowned character designer who was called upon to help create the world and ...
Fans can hope that Kodansha's release of Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki! is testing the waters for a (re)release of her works because this slim volume is a collection of some of Inuki's favorite short stories she's written.― Despite being a prolific horror manga creator, very few of Kanako Inuki's works have been released in English – Dark Horse translated School Zone and the now-defunct CMX release...
This manga provides enough differences from its source material to bring something new to the table for long-time fans. It also works as a horror series for newcomers.― There's an odd sense of comparisons and contrasts in the situational timing of Titan Comics' release of the Kamen Rider Kuuga manga. We're living in a timeline where another Kamen Rider-related manga, FUUTO PI, is getting its anime a...
Chainsaw Man has plenty of blood, guts, and monsters but it might be barf that tops its gross-out moments!― Chainsaw Man Adds Barf to the Menu Chainsaw Man has plenty of blood, guts, and monsters but it might be barf that tops its gross-out moments! Why can't Denji ever get a break? James and Lynzee discuss the newest episode, the coolest moments at Anime NYC, and the return of Mobile Suit Gundam T...