After almost 50 years, the annual Kodansha Manga Award is one of Japan’s most prestigious, well, manga awards. The winner of this year in all three categories were just announced, so let’s check ‘em ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is the hot topic right now, with everyone from the New York Times to Japanese government officials talking about it. It’s a good time to be Koyoharu Gotoge, the creator ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s yet another sign of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’s dominance throughout Japan. Now Sony is getting in on the tie-up game, releasing limited-edition Walkman music players and wireless ...

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 ...

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 second full trailer has arrived for the ROLL OVER AND DIE anime, based on the light novel series written by kiki and illustrated by Kinta. More cast and staff were revealed along with it ahead of ...

Kouichirou Itou, an anime producer best-known for working on a number of Makoto Shinkai’s movies, is back in the news because of updates in his criminal trial. Itou was originally arrested in February ...

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 ...

Happy Kanako’s Killer Life, the comedy manga from Toshiya Wakabayashi about an accidental assassin, is getting the live-action treatment. The live-action TV adaptation will star Non (In This Corner of ...

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 ...