Japanese band chilldspot have shared a music video that was created to commemorate the completion of the manga Saturn Return by Akane Torikai and published by Shogakukuan’s Big Comic Spirits imprint. Titled “HIRUNE NO KUNI” (The Land of Naps) utilizes…
North American distributor of anime and manga Viz Media has unveiled a new mobile app simply titled Viz Manga which brings the latest English-translated chapters the same day they appear in Japan. While the Viz Manga app is free to…
On the first Saturday of May, comic book shops across Canada and the United States set out stacks of comics, including manga, to celebrate Free Comic Book Day. This year, the event falls on Saturday, May 6th, 2023. A rotating…
In celebration of Inosuke Hashibira’s birthday, which is today, April 22nd, the Jump Comics Channel on YouTube has uploaded a brief video of the boar-masked Demon Slayer. The video contains a selection of his appearances from the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu…
Work on Boruto: Naruto Next Generations is on pause with the publication of chapter 80 in the upcoming June 2023 edition of Shueisha’s monthly V Jump. The announcement was posted to social media on the Japanese Naruto Twitter account. Translated,…
During last December’s Jump Festa, the ultimate Naruto character poll called NARUTOP99 was announced. Fans from around the world could vote for their favourite character from Masashi Kishimoto’s manga, and the winning character would get their own one-shot manga. Polls…
This past weekend, anime and manga fans descended upon not one, but two, convention centres in downtown Seattle for Sakura-Con. That means plenty of cosplay action! The full collection of photos I took with my camera and phone are on…
Japanese fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo, through their UT pop culture line-up, is set to sell later this month t-shirts featuring designs from the much anticipated ending to the anime adaptation of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan series. There’s eight t-shirts to…
Work on the manga My Hero Academia is again paused for two weeks due to the health of creator Kohei Horikoshi, according to a notice posted on Twitter. Translated, the notice thanks readers for their support and that My Hero…
Leiji Matsumoto, creator of manga and anime series loved around the world, died in hospital from acute heart failure on February 13th, 2023, according to his studio, Leijisha. He was 85 years old. A brief statement announcing his passing was…