Tag: Manga

Contributing further to the continuing public discourse in Japan about gay rights and same-sex marriage, the first volume of Otouto no Otto (My Brother's Husband) was published as a paperback on May ...

When I first arrived in Japan, my room mate had an alarm clock that played the Doraemon theme song -- very, very loudly. So when he had to get up for his morning shift, it was like a full ...

Publisher Kadokawa opened the beta version of Comic Walker Global on April 27th to be a platform for promoting the work of overseas manga artists. Comic Walker already launched in 2014 as Japan's ...

The makers of the Kabuki Face Pack just keep on finding new source material for skin care tools that blow all the competition out of the water. Combining Japan's love for dressing up (cosplay) ...

More photos have been released for the upcoming stage musical version of beloved anime and manga "Naruto". "Naruto" recently ended its long, successful manga serialization, leaving the door open ...

The first posters for the upcoming live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) have been released, showing the cast in costume as their respective characters. Regardless of your ...

It's sold 40 million comic books and counting. The live-action film adaptation is coming to a big screen near you soon. And now you can design your own Attack on Titan character and have it eat ...

A new exhibition event in Shibuya will turn all male visitors into crossdressers. All right, let's qualify that. The exhibition, held in December and January at Shibuya Parco Museum, is a promo ...

An exhibition based on the massively popular manga "One Piece" scheduled to take place at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul from July 12th has been canceled, it was announced on July ...

The first set photos have been released for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of the popular TV anime "Lupin". Starring Shun Oguri, Meisa Kuroki and Tadanori Asano, "Lupin III" will be ...

Long-running and popular manga "Oishinbo" has been suspended by its publisher, Shogakukan. The comic will no longer appear in the weekly manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from next ...

For as long as I can remember, comic books have been tightly wrapped in plastic covers, refusing to reveal their content to any passersby in a bookstore. It hasn't been too long since convenience ...

This is an awesome innovation on what many people would say is a dying medium. And the best thing about it is that it doesn't resort to digital or technological gimmicks. It just takes two very ...

Sometimes I just wonder. Japan is such a small country (geographically speaking, at least), so why do they even have to divide themselves into forty-seven prefectures and compete against each ...

While the weekend was all about the announcement that Tokyo would host the Olympic Games in 2020 -- the city's second bid and ultimately its second time to host -- some netizens and keen-eyed manga ...