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 ...

It doesn’t quite have the Stateside name recognition of, say, Shonen Jump, but Shonen Sunday, the weekly manga magazine that’s been running since 1959, has produced its share of classics. But what are ...

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 ...

Senate Bill 20, which unanimously passed the Texas state senate, has some anime fans nervous because its vague wording could lead to anime and manga bans — and potentially even fans behind bars. The ...

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 ...

Japanese production conglomerate Big West and Robotech producer Harmony Gold finally reached an agreement over the rights to Macross.

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 ...

If you’ve looked around Twitter this month, you may have seen mention of Pui Pui Molcar. The stop-motion series is one of many short subjects featuring on children’s variety shows. But this one in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the day Media Blasters was one of the main companies in America bringing over anime. It hit some hard times, but while other companies folded, it’s hung on. Now, says CEO John Sirabella, the ...