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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever think the current wave of reincarnation isekai could be more… well… metal? Good news: now there’s one that is! Kasuga Ryo’s Isekai Metaller is coming ...

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 ...

The Association of Japanese Animations (a.k.a. AJA) had some interesting findings for its Anime Industry Report 2024. The report looks at global sales numbers in 2023. During that year, the anime ...

(Warning: The following article may contain spoilers for the end of the Nadesico TV series! Read at your own risk!) Several months later Xebec unleashed the film, Martian Successor Nadesico: The ...

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 ...

Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, the 28th film in the long-running franchise, has earned 6.34 billion yen after two weeks in theaters, making it Japan’s highest grosser of 2025 so far. The Million ...

Sometimes nothing beats the thrill of tossing in a couple 100 yen coins into a gachapon machine and opening up the plastic capsule to see your prize. It’s a gamble, of course, but that’s half the ...

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 ...

Anime can make just about anything cute… even the flesh-eating undead who threaten our very existence! Yeah, we’re a little weirded out, too. But these zombie anime girls are weirdly lovable. From ...