One of Japan’s most celebrated and beloved comic book and anime creations, Urusei Yatsura delivered a total of just under 200 high-voltage weekly blasts of supernatural-and-alien-augmented ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Netflix is working on a live-action Solo Leveling, and the series’ lead actor has officially been found. Byeon Woo-seok (20th Century Girl) will star as Jin-woo Sung in the series, which has Lee ...

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 ...

The final season of Attack on Titan will involve the company MAPPA, a switch from the previous company WIT STUDIO. In a new issue of Newtype, AOT producers explained why. “While season 3 was in ...

Kanan-sama wa Akumade Choroi, the manga about a student who’s actually a demon hungry for human souls, has landed an anime adaptation. The news comes via the cover of the latest Shonen Magazine, where ...

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, ...

It’s a wish fulfillment trope that’s made it into almost every anime genre, from romantic comedies to scif-fi and fantasy. Plot circumstances drop an ordinary average guy into a close living/working ...

How Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Mawaru Penguindrum explores the many ways we defy fate and persevere through exercises in fantasy. The Takakura siblings—triple protagonists of Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Mawaru ...

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 ...