On Monday, Aug 24, this year’s 38th issue of Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine featured a list of compiled volumes of manga shipping on October 2, including a “volume 1” for Tite Kubo‘s new BURN THE WITCH manga. Usually, if a manga will only have one volume, it will not be listed with […]
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On Monday, Aug 24, this year’s 38th issue of Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed that the theatrical anime based on Kubo Tite‘s BURN THE WITCH one-shot and serialized manga will have event screenings in Japan for two weeks starting on October 2. The anime will also stream worldwide starting on October 2. The anime will […]
A Change.Org petition titled “We Boys Are Not Wolves. Shonen Jump Should Distinguish Between ‘Eroticism’ and ‘Sexual Violence’” concluded on Friday, Aug 21 after collecting over 4,100 online signatures in just over a week. The campaign organizer, a man named Manabu Sekiguchi, demanded that Weekly Shonen Jump should include content warnings or […]
The October issue of Shinchosha‘s Monthly Comic @Bunch magazine revealed on Friday, Aug 21 that Sakuma Chikara will launch a new manga in the magazine’s November issue on September 19. The soccer manga’s title is LINKMAN, and the first chapter will have 63 pages including an opening color page. Sakuma launched a manga adaptation of […]
The winners were announced for the sixth “Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō” (up-and-coming manga awards) with the top prize going to Yoshifumi Tozuka‘s Undead Unluck manga which is being serialized in the Weekly Shonen Jump. The story follows Fūko Izumo, otherwise known as a woman cursed with “Unluck”. Fūko brings misfortune to […]
On Wednesday, Aug 19, Indonesian publisher M&C! announced that it has cancelled its publication and release of Tatsuya Matsuki and Shiro Usazaki‘s act-age manga, adding that the cancellation was the best step it could take as its moral responsibility, given the sensitivity of the issue. The editors of Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine had announced last Monday that […]
On Monday, Aug 17 the official website for Shueisha‘s Shonen Jump brand announced that sales and distribution of Tatsuya Matsuki and Shiro Usazaki‘s act-age manga volumes have been indefinitely suspended. That includes the print edition of the 12 existing volumes, as well as the digital edition via B‘s services (as of 11:59 p.m. on Monday evening) […]
Coolkyoushinja confirmed on Twitter on Aug 11 that Amahara and his ‘Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi’ (Idaten Deities in the Peaceful Generation) manga is getting a television anime project. Coulkyoushinja posted a picture commemorating three of his series that are getting new television anime: The image shows characters from (from left to right): Heion Sedai […]
