Kodansha’s Young Magazine got started in 1980 in Japan, and has since launched titles like AKIRA and Ghost in the Shell. To celebrate its 45th anniversary, it’s making a special edition magazine aimed ...

A young boy named Saber and his village were cut off from the rest of the world for decades, communicating only with sign language to avoid being detected by the monsters. When a young woman named ...

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 ...

After almost 50 years, the annual Kodansha Manga Award is one of Japan’s most prestigious, well, manga awards. The winner of this year in all three categories were just announced, so let’s check ‘em ...

I Was Sold Dirt Cheap But My Power Level Is Off the Charts is a fun isekai manga involving mecha. Since the first day of school, Yuta has been waiting for the annual class trip to reveal his feelings ...

Our favorite anime already exist in awesome, elaborate universes. Figuring out the nuances of those is already a full-time job. So when we find out series have shared universes, it’s extra cool. Here ...

Shirobako has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the anime season: a delightful office comedy about the work of actually putting together anime. This is a very meta premise, with more than its ...

A new trailer has arrived for the live-action film sequel to the Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! TV drama, which adapts the boys’ love manga of the same name by Yu ...

Author Tomo Hanama and illustrator sune’s Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasuka? manga—AKA Hensuki for short—first launched back in January 2017, and now it’s officially completed its run.

Milky Subway takes place in a spacefaring world that’s at once futuristic and retro. There are hovercars, space subways, and aliens. But everything is lived-in and well-used, and these futuristic ...

Kouichirou Itou, an anime producer best-known for working on a number of Makoto Shinkai’s movies, is back in the news because of updates in his criminal trial. Itou was originally arrested in February ...

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 ...