Sasaki and Miyano volume 1, a BL manga rated Teen, was recently banned district-wide by Florida’s Brevard County Public School Board. This occurred after a mother who hadn’t read the book put in an ...

If you’ve looked around Twitter this month, you may have seen mention of Pui Pui Molcar. The stop-motion series is one of many short subjects featuring on children’s variety shows. But this one in ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is the hot topic right now, with everyone from the New York Times to Japanese government officials talking about it. It’s a good time to be Koyoharu Gotoge, the creator ...

One of Japan’s most celebrated and beloved comic book and anime creations, Urusei Yatsura delivered a total of just under 200 high-voltage weekly blasts of supernatural-and-alien-augmented ...

Back when the Pokémon: Black and White anime was airing in Japan, episodes 23 and 24 ended up not airing due to the events of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. While they were initially just ...

Very sad news arrived this week out of the official staff Twitter account for Maon Kurosaki. The singer has been suffering from a chronic illness, and she suddenly passed away from its effects on ...

The Association of Japanese Animations (a.k.a. AJA) had some interesting findings for its Anime Industry Report 2024. The report looks at global sales numbers in 2023. During that year, the anime ...

The “beach episode” is an anime tradition. Characters pack up, grab their best swimsuits, and spend a day playing and soaking up sun. (And dealing out fanservice, of course.) But today, we’re not ...

The Kadokawa Culture Museum is putting on an exhibit titled “BL Evolution: From Pioneers to Global Phenomenon ―Tracing the 50 Year History and Impact of Boys’ Love through Manga, Literature, and Media ...

I Was Sold Dirt Cheap But My Power Level Is Off the Charts is a fun isekai manga involving mecha. Since the first day of school, Yuta has been waiting for the annual class trip to reveal his feelings ...

Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia manga may be over—and congratulations have been pouring in—but there’s still more story to tell in the anime adaptation. Next week marks the premiere of My Hero ...

pictSPACE, a Japanese online shopping service dealing with doujinshi, is the latest Japanese retailer to soon lose the ability to take payments through Visa and Mastercard. This is part of a growing ...