Momoko Sakura, creator of Chibi Maruko-chan, has died. Born Miki Miura, Sakura passed away on August 15 from breast…
France’s Philippe Lacheau is directing and starring in a live-action version of the detective manga and anime City…
Debuting in December 2003, Gintama is one of Weekly Jump’s most popular manga. Like anything, it will come to an…
Online in South Korea, fans noticed that two panels in Kim Song-mo’s latest manhwa, the webcomic A Record of a High…
The One Piece manga debuted way back in 1997. That was over twenty years ago. Wonder how much more story is left?…
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Well, it wouldn’t be Gintama if didn’t look zany, would it? Here is the first trailer for Gintama 2.
For an upcoming Shonen Weekly Jump, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda drew Luffy with his arm around Dragon Ball’s Goku.
One Piece has no shortage of characters or Easter eggs. One character, Mr. Minamoto, was first revealed in the late…
Tite Kubo, best known for Bleach, has a new manga. It’s one-shot comedy manga called Burn the Witch.
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There’s a Jin-Roh movie. It’s based on the 1999 anime version of Mamoru Oshii’s Kerberos manga. And damn, it looks…
On March 11, 2011, Yuko Tanno lost her son in the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The city she calls home, Natori in…
Late last month, it was announced that Andrés Iniesta was leaving F.C. Barcelona for a three-year deal with Vissel…
This week, the English language version of Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc was not published in Viz Media’s digital edition. Previously, it was simultaneously published when the Japanese version was released. Creator Nobuhiro Watsuki was fined for child pornography possession earlier this year.
Monkey D. Luffy is a young man in One Piece, but what will he look like as an old one? Eiichiro Oda recently did a…
The king of hiatus, Yoshihiro Togashi, takes lots of breaks from his manga Hunter x Hunter. But he says he plans to…
For decades now, Japanese vending machines have served up an array of interesting, mundane, and useful things.…
Out of all the fan art I’ve seen, Dragon Ball or not, this is the first time I’ve ever seen it created on a carpet…
Manga Hikaru no Go will be turned into a live-action drama in China and will be streamed starting next summer on Chinese platform iQiyi. Hikaru no Go ran from 1998 to 2003 and got an anime adaptation.
Silly, yet brilliant. If you were going to pick one image from Hunter X Hunter to make into earrings, it would be…
Original Astro Boy sketches fetched €269,400 ($321,233) at a recent Paris auction Drawn in the late 1950s, the six-panel strip measures 13.7 inches by 9.8 inches and shows Astro Boy fighting a foe. “It’s a world record for this artist whose works are few in the market,” said Eric Leroy of auction house Artcurial.