Writer Riichiro Inagaki and illustrator Yusuke Murata’s Eyeshield 21 football manga has been celebrating its 21st anniversary lately, and the ultimate means of doing so just arrived. A special 55-page one-shot manga chapter made its way into the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump in the …Read more »
There was some discussion online last week about what new Shonen Jump series would come to define the long-running manga magazine next. As if in answer, the coming months mark the debut of six new Jump series, including one about golf by Kuroko’s Basketball writer …Read more »
Tokyo-based band BACK-ON has been making high-energy music for anime openings and themselves for a little over a decade now. After breaking onto the scene with “Chain,” the opening song for 2006’s Air Gear , they’ve since gone on to create openings and endings for …Read more »
If you pay attention to social media, you may have noticed that people have been talking non-stop about the World Cup for what feels like forever. If you keep up with current anime, you may have noticed that one of last season’s most interesting titles …Read more »
It’s a bit surprising that one of the world’s best comics about football (that is, American football) comes from a country better known for its love of baseball, soccer and basketball: Japan. That manga, Eyeshield 21 , is the brainchild of writer Riichiro Inagaki, a …Read more »
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