Ken Ogino Says Jump Would Not Run His Female-Led Manga Without Eroticism
Ogino's account offers a rare direct look at editorial gatekeeping around gender and content in a major shonen magazine during the mid-2010s.
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Manga
SAKAMOTO DAYS Live-Action Film Tops 2.23 Billion Yen at Box Office
The box office total confirms the live-action adaptation of Yuto Suzuki's manga as a commercial hit in Japan, sustaining strong attendance into its third week.
Cinema Today
Indonesian Comics Sales Jump 35% But Manga Still Dominates
The growth shows rising local demand, but the 10% market share makes clear that Indonesian comics remain a niche competing against a deeply entrenched manga readership of over 30 million active consumers.
Animenomics
Mother Trap Manga Launches With Kindergarten PTA Intrigue
The manga taps into the niche but relatable setting of kindergarten PTA politics, a fresh backdrop for a drama about adult social maneuvering.
Comic Natalie
Abrams ComicArts' Kana Imprint Licenses Tsubonari's Antengai: Twilight Metropolis Manga
The license brings a complete trilogy of supernatural urban fantasy manga to English readers for the first time, starting with the 2018 original and its two sequels.
Anime News Network
Thank You Pitch Gets First Pop-Up Shop in Shibuya
The pop-up shop's focus on interactive entrance-test challenges and character-specific merchandise signals a deliberate effort to deepen fan engagement with the manga's distinctive baseball club setting beyond standard retail.
Comic Natalie, Yahoo! News Japan (Entertainment)
Sora Launches New Manga Arethia After Oblivion in Hana to Yume
The new series marks sora's return to Hana to Yume with a fantasy romance premise that reuses their established interest in morally ambiguous protagonists.
Comic Natalie
Keiko Suenobu's Ochitara Owari Manga Gets Live-Action Series
The series adapts Suenobu's recently completed psychological drama about a housewife's fraught social climb in a high-rise, continuing the pattern of live-action treatments of her work that includes Life and Limit.
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Kingdom Box Set Series Launches With First Arc Collection
The box set series gives new readers a curated entry point into Kingdom's early arcs while offering longtime fans a premium collector's edition during the franchise's anniversary year.
Anime Anime
Pop Team Epic Kindle Volumes 1-3 on Sale for 11 Yen Each
The deep discount on the early volumes of a cult-favorite manga makes the series accessible to new readers at a near-nominal price.
Denfaminicogamer
Yuu Yoshinaga to Launch New Manga Saredo, Futari wa Kusare En
The new series gives Yoshinaga a fresh start in the same magazine where she built her readership, and its premise of a combative childhood friendship evolving in high school mirrors the kind of relationship-driven drama that defined her previous work.
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Houbunsha Opens Manga Time Square Website
The launch gives Houbunsha a dedicated digital platform for its Manga Time lineup, making those serialized works freely available online for the first time.
Comic Natalie
Osamu Tezuka's War Manga 'Paper Fortress' Gets Live-Action NHK Special
The special adapts a deeply personal work by the manga pioneer, using his own wartime and postwar struggles as the narrative frame, and marks a rare live-action treatment of Tezuka's autobiographical material.
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I'm Fine With Being the Second Girlfriend Light Novel Series Ends With 9th Volume
The conclusion of the series closes a story that earned recognition in the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! awards and built a readership around a premise of secret relationships and emotional compromise.
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Kuroha Launches New Manga SATANICA on Shonen Jump+
Kuroha returns to Shonen Jump+ with a new series after wrapping their previous Jump SQ. title in 2024, marking their first ongoing work since Fallen Angel Theory ended.
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Kaiju Girl Caramelise Volumes 5-8 Reveal Kuroe's True Origin
The series abandons its earlier puberty-as-monster metaphor for a concrete origin story, reframing Kuroe's transformation as her true self rather than a phase to outgrow.
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Land Volume 2 Reveals the Dark Purpose of The Beyond
The volume shifts the series from a mystery about parallel worlds into a pointed critique of how societies discard the old, with the creators of The Land implied to be playing out a cruel social experiment.
Anime News Network
The Summer of You Boys-Love Manga Gets Live-Action Series
The adaptation brings a completed, English-licensed BL manga to live-action, with a cast reveal and a tight release window of under two months.
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Zoku Thermae Romae Manga Resumes Serialization After 8-Month Hiatus
The return of Zoku Thermae Romae after an eight-month break signals that Yamazaki is continuing the sequel series, which had an uncertain status, and the shift in focus to Satsuki's perspective expands the story beyond Lucius's time-traveling adventures.
Anime News Network, Siliconera (Anime)
Viz and MLB Players Launch GalaXic Baseball League Comic Series
This is the first intellectual property to include active MLB players, blending professional sports licensing with manga-style storytelling through a major digital-first release.
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Kiminori Wakasugi's That Time I Got Reincarnated in PES Manga Ends
The manga ran for only three weeks, making it one of the shortest serialized runs for a creator best known for the long-running Detroit Metal City.
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Hiro Mashima's Dead Rock Manga Goes on Hiatus, Returns With New Arc This Winter
The hiatus and arc transition mark a structural shift for Mashima's latest series, which has been running since 2023 and now pauses to reset for a new story phase.
Anime News Network
Kadokawa Launches World Manga Atelier to Support Overseas Creators
The initiative formalizes a direct pipeline for non-Japanese creators to receive editorial feedback and potentially publish with Kadokawa, addressing a structural gap in the industry's global expansion.
Animehunch
Hajime Isayama Says Attack on Titan Ending Felt Insincere
The creator's own admission of insincerity adds a new layer to the long-running debate over the ending, directly tying its perceived flaws to his personal conflict between the original vision and the character's reception.
Animehunch