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 ...

Koneko Hoshitsuki’s The Villager of Level 999, also known in Japan as Level 999 no Murabito, is officially getting an anime! Kadokawa made the announcement today, lining the light novel adaptation up ...

So what did we learn from this list? It seems that the popularity of magical girl anime among U.S. fans is firmly striated into just a few tiers. There’s Sailor Moon in a class of its own, then ...

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 ...

Where did the idea for using healing magic the “wrong” way come from? Most people think of recovery magic as a kind of background support used to heal the injuries of allies. The idea for this series ...

Shout! Studios is getting ready to let loose with a classic anime on digital. The distributor announced plans to bring Speed Racer and the original Japanese version, Mach GoGoGo, to video-on-demand on ...

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 Sailor Moon Museum is a traveling exhibit that’s spent limited time stationed in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka, and Nagoya, but soon it will be making a trip overseas! Its organizers have shared that the ...

Look Back, Special One-Shot: A huge 140+ page one-shot from Tatsuki Fujimoto, the creator of Chainsaw Man! When two students aspire to become manga artists, the paths they choose change their lives ...

When an anime character shows up wearing an eye patch, you know things are about to get serious. Because in anime, it’s not always just a way to cover an injured eye, or a clever way to give yourself ...

You would be hard-pressed to find an anime fan, casual or serious, who hasn’t come across at least one of the works of Shinichiro Watanabe. Whether it’s his benchmark sci-fi Cowboy Bebop, the hip-hop ...

Assassin & Cinderella is bound to be compared to SPY x FAMILY, because it involves a spy and an assassin in a marriage of convenience. In this case, Neneko is the spy, and she’s supposed to figure out ...