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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Manga: it ain’t just about the laughs. One of the most appealing parts of the medium, as our readers well know, is the wide range of genres it spans, and with it, the wide range of emotions it can ...

Another Japanese business is being affected by Western credit card companies. Melonbooks, a chain store that sells doujinshi, will cease taking Visa and Mastercard payments on December 16. After this, ...

Neon Genesis Evangelion is never far from the mind of anime fans. The franchise, now 25 years old, is still a perennial favorite, as evidenced most recently by the huge number of streams each of the ...

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 ...

In the year 2024, a career on YouTube is, if not viable for everyone, at least aspirational. Plenty of people—whether in person or as a VTuber—have plunged into the world of streaming and content ...

Unsurprisingly, The Art of Rumiko Takahashi: Colors 1978-2024 contains gorgeous full-color spreads. Even storied fans will find art they’ve never seen before… or at least never seen in all its color ...

This week saw the long-awaited news that Fire Force season 3 is in the works, and there’s a followup concerning Atsushi Ohkubo’s original manga. The series recently concluded, and on the day the 34th ...