American Mike Howard used the antics of his years as a Japanese salaryman for his humorous memoir The Salaryman, illustrated by mangaka Rena Saiya. After this he turned The Salaryman into a manga (again with artwork from Saiya) and has recently translated the manga into …Read more »
Ōsama Ranking, a web manga about a “good-for-nothing” prince, is getting the anime treatment. The manga, by Sosuke Toka, centers around a prince who is both deaf and weak, unable to wield even a children’s sword, who meets a literal shadow named Kage. The story develops …Read more »
Peter Grill to Kenja no Jinkan, AKA Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time, is an ecchi harem comedy manga by Daisuke Hiyama that’s been running in the pages of Manga Action since July of 2017. Now, according to the mag’s November issue, a TV anime is officially in …Read more »
I’ll admit, I straight up didn’t enjoy the first episode of the Pop Team Epic anime. What I’ve seen of Bkub Okawa’s original four-panel manga has been pretty funny, but I wasn’t feeling whatever they were going for in the adaptation. It didn’t take long …Read more »
In the Germanic-looking kingdom of Granzreich, brilliant professor Heine Wittgenstein is hired by the royal family to tutor its four teenage princes. (There’s a fifth prince, but he’s too old and too flawless to require further instruction, and the princess is still a toddler.) First …Read more »
The common, established wisdom says the mark of a terrible story is one that features a character with absolutely no flaws. Perfect at everything, unmatched in talent, and adored by all, such characters are typically seen as nothing more than idealized projections of the author …Read more »
The world of light novel publication is a fast and furious affair where imitation is the highest form of flattery. When an idea hits it big, you can bet your bottom dollar (or your smallest yen coin) that a slew of series with similar premises …Read more »
The familiar characters Shinji, Asuka, and Rei are the top students at NERV, a middle school that trains Evangelion pilots for the day when giant mysterious life forms come to invade Earth. And since the only thing middle schoolers care about are video games, they …Read more »
With sites dedicated to anime and manga rankings coming up with increasingly convoluted questions, it’s nice to occasionally see a nice, simple one like this. The question site Goo put to its readers: what is funniest comedy manga of all time? Let’s see what they …Read more »
North American publisher Seven Seas Entertainment announced plans to release Saki Hasemi and Kentaro Yabuki's To Love Ru and To Love Ru Darkness manga series. Both are coming out in print and digital platforms, with the first volumes of each to launch just a week …Read more »
“Keijo” is a sport wherein women wearing bathing suits use naught but their breasts and buttocks in battle to push competitors over the edge of a land—a large float—and into some surrounding body of water. The sport itself is fictional ... thankfully, but the tension …Read more »
At the beginning of Utawarerumono: The False Faces , a confused young man wanders aimlessly through the snowy wilderness, barefoot and wearing only what appears to be a thin hospital gown. Soon the poor fellow is attacked by a colossal centipede and a gigantic blob …Read more »
There are times you’ll hear people refuse to touch certain shows because of how dated they look. But sometimes, that isn’t really all that bad. In fact, when you get older, those dated shows become something precious and dear to your heart like an old …Read more »
You may think you know hot, but I’m here to say what is and what’s not. Boys' love? Please, honey. And don’t even get me started on them little Narutos. No, this here list is about raw steel and sex appeal. That’s right, five men …Read more »
We’ve reported before on the strange phenomenon of the brother-sister/forbidden love anime shows that’ve been popping up recently, the most infamous of which is probably My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute , also known as OreImo . Well, this season’s version is called Recently, …Read more »
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