Last year, the Japan Animation Creators Association (Janica) partnered with publisher Dai Nippon Printing to conduct a survey of working conditions in the anime industry, and a detailed report of the ...

Aika is, as she tells us at the beginning of Pretty Pretty Please, a totally normal 15-year-old. She has average abilities and no secrets. She even makes friends with loner Zira during lunch, setting ...

The webcomic Let’s Play by Leeanne M. Krecic is getting an anime adaptation from OLM, and a trailer just dropped. The trailer includes details on the cast and songs. The anime is set to launch on ...

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 ...

It’s been a little over seven years since author Yuumikan kicked off the BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense. novel series, and now it’s officially come to an end. Yuumikan ...

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun: IruMafia Edition hails from writer and artist Hiroja. The spinoff runs alongside and in collaboration with Nishi’s main series, but there are some differences right ...

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 Sailor Moon Museum is a traveling exhibit that’s spent limited time stationed in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka, and Nagoya, but soon it will be making a trip overseas! Its organizers have shared that the ...

Writer Hiromu and illustrator raemz’ Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle light novel series is coming to the screen this October in a TV anime adaptation, and a new teaser is here to preview what’s in ...

This article originally appeared in the April 2020 issue of Otaku USA magazine, on stands now and available online. This is the extended version of the interview, enjoy! Chavez took a moment out of ...

If Arise was a risk, with its new take on familiar characters, SAC_2045, the most recent take on Ghost in the Shell, is like revisiting old friends. We’re back to the characters of the Stand Alone ...