After a brief interval, Naruto is back with a new generation of aspiring Shinobi in todays Weekly Shonen Jump from VIZ Media. Following the conclusion of the original Naruto series, creator Masashi Kishimoto has begun a new, limited series – Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring. Naruto is the seventh hokage and his […]
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2015 J-Pop Summit Announces First Guests of Honor!
The 2015 J-Pop Summit has announced its first Guests of Honor: pop singer Eir Aoi (pictured) and all-girl rock band Gacharic Spin. Tickets go on sale today for the Summit. for further details, follow the jump. The 2015 J-Pop Summit runs from Friday, August 7th to Sunday, August 9th.
Award-Winning Manga, Planetes, Gets Omnibus Reissue!
Space – not so much the final frontier as a massive landfill. By the 2070s, interplanetary travel has filled space with all kinds of junk, debris, what-have-you. In Planetes, it’s the job of the space-garbage crew of aspiring explorer Hachimaki, mourning Yuri, and secretive Fee to clean up the mess. Twice winner of the Seiun […]
Manga Creator Aya Kanno To Guest at Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2015!
Aya Kanno – author of hit manga Requiem of the Rose King and Otomen – will be a featured guest at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2015. Kanno will participate in a variety of programs at the Festival and was chosen as a guest for her ability to ‘smartly interrogate the medium (Shoujo manga) and its […]
Death From The Sea – VIZ Media Unleashes GYO!
Junji Ito’s GYO – a seminal horror manga is coming to North America in an omnibus hardcover edition from VIZ Media’s VIZ Signature imprint. It starts with that unique stench of death and a strange fish with legs, pulling Tadashi and Kaori into a spiral of horror as mutated sea creatures invade Japan. The 400-page GYO Deluxe […]
Early Masters: Naoki Urusawa’s Master Keaton!
Naoki Urasawa has had a long and illustrious career as a creator of original, thoughtful and action-packed manga like Monster, 20th Century Boys, 21st Century Boys and his reworking of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boys for an older audience, Pluto: Urasawa × Tezuka. He’s done action-adventure, psychological thrillers and even romantic comedy. Master Keaton – an […]
Assassination Classroom: He’s Going To Destroy The World – But What He Really Wants To Do Is Teach!
Imagine that you’re an almost indestructible alien with a globe for a head and tentacles. You have the power to blast the moon to a quarter of its size and planet to do something similar to the Earth – but not for a year. A year in which you are going to be a schoolteacher. […]
VIZ Media Announces Two New Shojo Manga Titles For Year’s End!
A vampire with a death wish hunting down the only person who can give him what he wants – which is to die; a high school romance between the unlikeliest couple stemming from a long forgotten act of kindness. One of the joys of manga is that such different premises can and are given equal […]
VIZ Media Launches Shakespeare-Inspired Requiem Of The Rose King!
Aya Kanno’s Requiem of the Rose King follows Richard, the third son of York, who believes that, from birth, he is damned to eternal darkness. Based on/inspired by an early draft of William Shakespeare’s Richard III, Kanno’s Richard stands between worlds, between classes, between good and evil. The first volume of Requiem of the Rose King […]
VIZ Media’s Claymore and Rosario + Vampire Get Complete Series Box Sets!
The of the most popular manga series around – Claymore and Rosario + Vampire are getting complete series box set collections. Norihiro Yagi’s medieval action saga Claymore’s twenty-seven volume set will also include a booklet of cover images previously unseen in North America. Akihisa Ikeda’s supernatural high school drama, Rosario + Vampire will include all twenty-four […]
Astro Boy Returns In September!
The one and only, original -accept no substitutes – Astro Boy is returning to North America in an oversized omnibus form, collecting almost seven hundred pages of Osamu Tezuka’s classic manga about the robot boy who becomes a beloved hero. The first volume of Astro Boy Omnibus will be in stores in September. Preorders are […]