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 ...

Shinpei Matsuo (Ascendance of a Bookworm) directs, with Deko Akao on series composition, Toshihisa Kaiya on character designs and Hideakira Kimura on music for the Ajia-do production. Newly added ...

Tomohito Oda’s hit manga Komi Can’t Communicate recently finished serialization, coming to a close on Chapter 499. While Chapter 500—a bonus print chapter—will technically be the final one, this marks ...

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 ...

Last year, Otaku USA reported on a member of second biggest yakuza group getting busted for stealing Pokémon cards. But it turns out more members of the yakuza, also known as the Japanese mafia, are ...

Natalie Van Sistine works in different parts of anime, including as a voice actor, script writer and engineer. Her best-known acting role is as Yor in the hit SPY x FAMILY, and while she was a guest ...

Milky Subway takes place in a spacefaring world that’s at once futuristic and retro. There are hovercars, space subways, and aliens. But everything is lived-in and well-used, and these futuristic ...

The anime The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (a.k.a. Higeki no Genkyō to naru Saikyō Gedō Last Boss Joō wa Min no tame ni Tsukushimasu. in Japanese), which debuted in 2023, ...

Osamu Tezuka is often called the “god” of manga and anime, having pioneered many of the modern conventions and production methodologies still in use today. His works remain resonant to modern ...

Also known as Natsume’s Book of Friends, this long-running series has a deceptive title. It’s not so much about befriending yokai as it is letting them go. Takashi Natsume is a loner with the ability ...

The Grisaia Phantom Trigger anime is now underway as part of the Winter 2025 anime season! The latest chapter in the Grisaia visual novel universe comes to life as Rena, Haruto, and their classmates ...

As a voice actor, Jason Douglas’s credential include Dragon Ball Super, Attack on Titan, Chainsaw Man, Black Butler and many others, while his work in live-action has had him on-camera for shows like ...