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 ...

Lawmakers in Ohio recently called for Kent State University to no longer use the scholarly book Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation in their ...

Japanese rock band the pillows have been a staple for the past three decades, and they made their presence known in the U.S. and beyond when they provided the unforgettable soundtrack to the FLCL ...

Ken Sugimori is a cool dude. You might think the guy who helped co-create Pokemon would be a little arrogant, spending his days in some kind of ivory tower, sleeping on top of large piles of money, ...

Hi, I’m a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion is a long title and gets across the basic idea of the manga. Rose, who is descended from witches, becomes the Witch of the Lake after her ...

To say Attack on Titan is a terrifying series would be an understatement. Even before the Walls came down, the uncanny megamonsters of the series got into our nightmares. Every revelation builds out a ...

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 ...

The Crunchyroll Anime Awards, an anime awards show hosted by the streaming service of the same name, were held this weekend in San Francisco. The event featured 15 categories, with anime from 2018 ...

I Was Sold Dirt Cheap But My Power Level Is Off the Charts is a fun isekai manga involving mecha. Since the first day of school, Yuta has been waiting for the annual class trip to reveal his feelings ...

Nobuyuki Fukumoto occasionally puts the Kaiji manga on hiatus for various reasons, and there’s another brief one on the horizon. As announced in this year’s 45th issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Young ...

Anime piracy is on the rise… no, not like that. Like actual pirates. Without even counting One Piece, the sheer number of pirates in anime is both impressive and satisfactory. Since decades ago, ...

pictSPACE, a Japanese online shopping service dealing with doujinshi, is the latest Japanese retailer to soon lose the ability to take payments through Visa and Mastercard. This is part of a growing ...