We recently posted about a giant promotional manga magazine that combines Shueisha’s Shonen Jump with Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine to create a 2,264-page monstrosity (pictured right) with a ton of popular series represented. As cool as that wiiiiiide mag may be, there’s an even better way to illustrate what happens when two …Read more »
Park Jung-hyun, an editor at publisher Kodansha formerly in charge of the popular manga Attack on Titan , has been arrested in connection with the death of his wife, who the police suspect he killed. Park had made inconsistent statements about the death of his …Read more »
Want a bucket of digital manga? Want to support charity? Kodansha Comics has you covered. You may have heard of the Humble Bundle, the pay-what-you-want service that packages (“bundles,” if you will) digital games, books and apps to help support various charities. Kodansha, the English …Read more »
Attack on Titan season 2 hasn’t started yet? Seriously? C’mon, guys. To hold you over just a little longer, Kodansha Comics has licensed Attack on Titan: Lost Girls , the manga adaptation of the spinoff novel of the same name by Hiroshi Seko. The story …Read more »
Kodansha Comics has something up its sleeve for next month's New York Comic Con, and that something has to do with none other than Attack on Titan . The publisher will host a panel, and the title pretty much says it all: "The Biggest Attack …Read more »
Despite its reputation as a futuristic land of robots and high-speed trains, Japan actually trails behind the States in quite a few technological areas, like widespread wifi or internet banking. One area in which Japan seems to be catching up to the west is in …Read more »
The end of an era is at hand (or paw, rather) – Kanata Konami's Chi’s Sweet Home , the tale of titular feline Chi and her life with her owners the Yamadas – will wrap up this June, according to Kodansha. The final volume, set …Read more »
It's a strange, post-modern art project that shouldn't really work but somehow does: Bartkira , the project started in 2013 to redraw all of Akira with characters from The Simpsons . Ridiculous as the premise is, it's no small undertaking: the original Akira manga spans …Read more »
Middle schooler Mutsumi is in trouble. She’s so badly bullied by her classmates that she finds herself crying in the school bathroom. Normally she doesn’t pay much attention to the graffiti on the bathroom stalls, but today she notices graffiti where someone called Yato promises …Read more »
Kodansha had a couple of announcements for fans in North America yesterday, including the license of the Manga Dogs and Noragami manga series. Towering above them, so to speak, was the announcement of Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition , which brings a 1,000-page collection of …Read more »
Attack on Titan is one of those rare anime series that probably helped spawn a few new manga readers. Even those who are stubbornly reluctant to pick up the original source material of their favorite series would be hard-pressed to just sit on their thumbs …Read more »
Crunchyroll recently set up a major move to jump into the manga game. As announced via Japan's Nikkei Business Daily , in a special partnership, Crunchyroll will simultaneously publish a select assortment of Kodansha's manga series, and it all starts on Wednesday, October 30. 12 …Read more »
Attack on Titan is one of the biggest anime out there right now, and we're right on top of it in the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine! Our One Piece Strong World cover nearly caved from the ramming speed of a colossal titan, but …Read more »
It's abundantly clear by now that Attack on Titan is a straight-up phenomenon, and it's definitely one of the more surprising runaway successes of recent years. The anime is currently streaming thanks to FUNimation and Crunchyroll, and Kodansha recently ramped up Hajime Isayama's original manga …Read more »
Did everyone have a nice long weekend? Labour Day proved the perfect opportunity to get caught up on last week's reading. Good thing too since there's so much out this week! As the first shipping week of the month, it's another Viz Media domination. Kodansha …Read more »
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