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Kotaku EastMangaPosting Manga Dialogue Online Without Permission Is Copyright Infringement, Says Tokyo Court
Last week, the Tokyo District Court (pictured above) ruled that publishing manga dialogue online without permission is copyright infringement. According to NHK (via ANN), a “spoiler site” published almost all the dialogue verbatim from manga between January 2019 and May 2020. In total, 63 volumes were uploaded. The manga in question is Kengan Omega, and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 1, 2021 -
Kotaku EastMangaGiant Attack On Titan Manga Weighs 30 Pounds And Costs $1,400
Are you a big Attack on Titan fan? Like a really big one? Well, enjoy this enormous version of the popular manga. Kodansha is releasing a huge compilation of the first and second instalments of Attack on Titan. (Full disclosure: Kodansha International originally published my first two books.) The 96-page jumbo manga measures over 3…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 4, 2021 -
Kotaku EastMangaAfter 23 Years, The Manga D.N.Angel Is Ending
Debuting in November 1997, Yukiru Sugisaki’s manga D.N.Angel will draw to a close in the March issue of Monthly Asuka The manga tells the story of a schoolboy who transforms into a phantom thief whenever he has romantic feelings about his crush. An anime adaptation was broadcasted on Japanese TV in 2003, and a PlayStation…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 22, 2021 -
Kotaku EastMangaOne Piece Editor Accidentally Clicked On Pirated Manga Site, Says Publisher
To mark One Piece reaching 1,000 chapters, there was YouTube live-stream earlier this week with the staff at the Weekly Jump offices. The editor of One Piece showed his smartphone screen. On it, viewers could see his browsing history. Oh dear. Most of it was rather pedestrian—Yahoo! Japan, One Piece sites, etc.—but one entry was for a…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 14, 2021 -
Kotaku EastMangaEiichiro Oda On Reaching 1,000 Chapters In One Piece
Back in July 1997, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump. Now, twenty years later, it has become the biggest-selling manga series ever. Last summer, it was announced that One Piece was entering its final arc, which should take four or five years to wrap up, and this month the manga reached…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 7, 2021 -
Kotaku EastMangaJapan’s Biggest Manga Of 2020 Is Demon Slayer
Last year, the unthinkable happened. The One Piece manga was knocked from the top spot for the first time in twelve years. In its place was a new manga sales champion: Demon Slayer. That was no fluke. As Kotaku reported earlier this year, the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba dominated Japan’s Oricon sales chart for…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 1, 2020
