With some of Japan’s most well-known anime and manga titles officially participating and over 1 million members worldwide, the Japanese government has released new information on the achievements of their new anti-piracy campaign called the Manga-Anime Guardians (MAG), a joint project by…
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With the ever-growing presence of Japanese media abroad, fans of various mediums might sometimes find themselves at a loss as to which series to begin next. Fortunately, a massive poll has now made the process much easier by picking out the cream of the crop…
When one thinks of the yuri genre and its milder counterpart shoujo-ai (girl’s love), one usually associates it with a dominantly male audience. What many fans forget is that in its native Japan, girl’s love was for the most part…
As anyone will tell you, Japan is home to many major manga “monthlies” and “weeklies,” and of course the can be bought virtually everywhere from convenience stores to train stations. Among these many titles, however, it is without a doubt…
There are two kinds of comedy in anime as far as I can recall: Lewd and non-lewd comedy. Japan has produced plenty of manga that are too lewd to be adapted, with some series having extreme violence mixed in for…
Live-action anime adaptations are notorious for being “hit or miss”, with some, such as the live-action Rurouni Kenshin movies, being both a financial and critical success while others like Parasyte and Lupin III being generally not well received by fans.…
Everyone has their own favorite hot anime girl. Whether it be for her lustrous looks, sensual movements, or straight-forward way of communicating with others, she seems to drive you absolutely crazy! Let’s get up close and personal with 20 of…
10.Neji and Hinata Neji Hyuuga and Hinata Hyuuga are both from Hyuuga clan. They have both strong taijutsu. Their taijutsu combine with their byakugan and make perfect combination for battle. Neji always protect Hinata he also died while protecting her.…
The 15th issue of this year’s Young Jump magazine has announced that Yuusuke Murata’s One-Punch Man manga will finally be getting an anime adaptation, and it certainly brings some good news to fans who have been waiting for the manga to…
Spring 2015 may be this year’s most packed and most anticipated season with plenty of big name anime titles having their respective premieres. And with Winter 2015 now winding down to its last few episodes, Japanese anime character database, Charapedia,…
After the success of his now-concluded hit romance manga series, The World God Only Knows, manga creator Tamaki Wakaki is set to launch another manga series which sounds like it is completely different from his previous one. The upcoming manga series…
Anime and manga have been in the global mainstream for a few decades now and like anything else, they have a way of evolving over time. Sometimes, though, the changes are so gradual that we don’t notice it until someone…
Last week, we took a look at some of the most common scenarios in shojo manga, Japan’s subset of comics aimed at young female readers. And yes, sometimes it seems like you can pick up just about any shojo manga,…
In broad terms, the two largest categories of Japanese comics are shonen manga(“boys’ comics”) and shojo manga (“girls comics”). Among many fans, shonen manga have a stigma of relying on the same hackneyed storytelling patterns, over and over again. There’s…
