IDW Publishing, Viz Media to release issue #1 on November 13― IGN reported on Monday that IDW Publishing and Viz Media are collaborating on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto crossover comic series with four issues. Caleb Goellner (Sonic the Hedgehog) is writing the comic, Hendry Prasetya (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) is drawing, Raúl Angulo is coloring, and Ed Dukeshire is lettering. Jorge Ji...
Soup Forest is a story to read when you want to escape from the horrors of the news cycle. It's truly cozy in the sense that it's like reading under a warm blanket in front of the fire.― Although cozy fantasy has arguably always existed as a subgenre, especially within the world of light novels where it crosses paths with iyashikei works, it's only recently become known as its own special category o...
Slam Dunk has been wildly popular across Asia—first in the 90s and once again with the release of The First Slam Dunk last year. But in North America, this hasn’t exactly been the case.― Just before I flew out to D.C. for Otakon last year, I started hearing a low but persistent rumbling around a little movie about to hit theaters—The First Slam Dunk. While I missed my chance to see the film on the ...
Manga about ladylike girl who loves rock music launched in 2022― The official X (formerly Twitter) account of Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine announced on Monday that Hiroshi Fukuda's Rock wa Lady no Tashinamideshite (Rock is a Lady's Modesty) manga will get a television anime adaptation in 2025. Fukuda drew an illustration to celebrate the announcement: The young lady x rock youth manga takes pl...
Even when a rival rears her head, author Iru knows how to handle it without making it feel like too much of a retread of manhwa's greatest hits, and it's just a very well-put-together story overall.― Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom has an odd history in English. Some years ago, Korean novel translators WordExcerpt released the source novel as I'm Only a Stepmother, but my Daughter is Just Too Cute! as both a...
Anime will feature updated setting, "modern update" for students of Class 5-3― Shueisha announced on Sunday that Takeshi Okano and Sho Makura's Jigoku Sensei Nube manga is getting a new anime project in 2025. Shueisha also revealed a teaser visual as well as a promotional video for the project. The below visual video features the English title Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube. The manga will also ge...
Minky Momo is dead. Long live Minky Momo.― Minky Momo is dead. Long live Minky Momo. After episode forty-six scarred children of Japan with the magical girl's death via truck, the series still had seventeen episodes to go, well beyond the original slated episode count of fifty. That means that the writers had to figure something out relatively quickly – should the focus be on Momo growing up as the ...
“We've been trying to improve things by providing good wages to all the staff, providing a stable working environment, and holding various [internal company] events.”― Founded in 2018, MAHO FILM is one of the younger anime studios around. That said, they've already produced 10 anime, including I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss and Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp. Recently, ...
Tsumuji Yoshimura's romance drama centers on non-binary Hinase, a teen who has no gender in a world where most people choose by age 12.― My ex once described gender as soup—it's fluid, can swirl all over the place, and can be enjoyed at one's leisure. However, depending on how you approach it, it can also be exceedingly messy. We unfortunately live in a world where many people fail to understand wha...
The best way is through cannibalism! (Well, at least according to Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga it is.)― Welcome back, folks! This past week saw the 21st anniversary of Boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hands!. My long-time readers know I have a ton of love for those games, having grown up with them and sunk my teeth into them long before I ever played a Metal Gear Solid game (fitting, since Hideo...
New visual also unveiled― Toei Animation unveiled a new trailer and visual for the Dragon Ball Daima anime series on Friday. The trailer reveals the anime's October premiere date on Fuji TV. Masako Nozawa is returning to voice Son Goku. Yoshitaka Yashima (animation director on Dragon Ball Super, Digimon franchise) and Aya Komaki (One Piece series director, episode director on Marie & Gali) are servi...