TOKYOPOP SPONSORS 2024 ANIME NYC PANEL – MANGA FOR GROWN-UPS

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TOKYOPOP SPONSORS 2024 ANIME NYC PANEL – MANGA FOR GROWN-UPS

TOKYOPOP editor Becca Chen will join representatives from other leading manga publishers to offer commentary and insights. Libraries across the U.S. are an important venue for adults to access manga. Becca Chen will offer insights on topics including specific areas of interest among contemporary manga readers and library patrons, ways that publishers are meeting this demand, and a focus on burgeoning manga genres like romance and BL (Boys Love) along with a preview of several notable upcoming TOKYOPOP manga releases.

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Media Do Partners with TAICCA for Digital Debut of Taiwanese Manga Titles

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Media Do Partners with TAICCA for Digital Debut of Taiwanese Manga Titles

Media Do Co, Ltd., Japan’s largest eBook distribution company, and its U.S.-based subsidiary Media Do International Inc., as they announce a partnership with TAICCA, a Taiwan-based nonprofit organization that supports the production, distribution, development, and overseas expansion of Taiwan's creative content, to translate and promote original right-to-left comics created by an array of Taiwanese manga creators into English and Japanese language formats.

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TOKYOPOP Highlights Poignant Manga Love Story - WHY I ADOPTED MY HUSBAND

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TOKYOPOP Highlights Poignant Manga Love Story - WHY I ADOPTED MY HUSBAND

Publisher TOKYOPOP highlights an inspiring true story of how a gay couple in Japan formalized their union by adapting a legal loophole in the manga, WHY I ADOPTED MY HUSBAND. The single-volume story, written and illustrated by Yuta Yagi, is available now in print and digital formats and published under TOKYOPOP’s “Comics That Matter” initiative that utilizes the graphic novel medium to raise awareness about important causes and social issues.

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Square Enix Manga & Books Coming in 2022

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Square Enix Manga & Books Coming in 2022

SQUARE ENIX® today announced seven exciting new licensed titles launching from the Square Enix Manga & Books imprints in 2022. The upcoming publications include novels, art books and manga for FINAL FANTASY® VII REMAKE, FINAL FANTASY XIV, the NieR® series, Tokyo Aliens and The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses.

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The Summer of You (My Summer of You Vol. 1) Review

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The Summer of You (My Summer of You Vol. 1) Review

Chiharu Saeki and Wataru Toda are two high school students who share a common hobby: They love to watch movies. After they meet, they become fast friends, until one day, when Chiharu confesses his love for Wataru. Wataru says that Chiharu's confession doesn't bother him, and the boys continue throughout their summer, going to pilgrimages to see film spots from their favorite movies. But the more time he spends with Chiharu, Wataru realizes that he may not only be as unaffected by Chiharu's confession as he claimed to be, but those feelings may also be mutual...

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ABLAZE Publishing Reveals 2 New Manga Titles for August / September Release

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ABLAZE Publishing Reveals 2 New Manga Titles for August / September Release

ABLAZEÔ has announced plans to publish two new entries in its expanding manga catalog with the August release of the e-sports inspired Versus Fighting Story, by writer Izu and artists, Madd and Kalon, followed by the September debut of the zombie survival-horror adventure, Crueler Than Dead, by Tsukasa Saimura and Kozo Takahashi.

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Comics Publisher ABLAZE Reveals New SPACE PIRATE CAPT. HARLOCK Variant Covers

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Comics Publisher ABLAZE Reveals New SPACE PIRATE CAPT. HARLOCK Variant Covers

Comics publisher ABLAZE gives readers and fans another special sneak peek of its forthcoming series, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, with cover reveals for Issue 2

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She's My Knight Vol 1 (Review)

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She's My Knight Vol 1 (Review)

Haruma Ichinose, 17, has been popular since he was born. So popular, in fact, that he figured no one could even come close...until he met Yuki Mogami. She's tall, cool, collected, and totally makes him crazy. He may just be in love...but can he deal with falling for someone even more dashing than himself?

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New Manga App Launches for Android with 30-Day Free Trial

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New Manga App Launches for Android with 30-Day Free Trial

Mangamo, the manga subscription app that gives readers unlimited access to hundreds of titles from multiple publishers while supporting creators, has answered the request of manga fans around the world with the global launch of its app for Android. The service is now available for Android on the Google Play Store and for iOS on the Apple App Store and is offering a 30-day free trial for new users.

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eigoMANGA Releases "The Frog Princess" Graphic Novel

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eigoMANGA Releases "The Frog Princess" Graphic Novel

eigoMANGA proudly announces the publication release of "The Frog Princess" , an original graphic novel from writer Jeff Loew (finalist in the "Be a Visionary" contest co-sponsored by VCS and AAM/Markosia) and artist Rie Ikaza (aka "Fitri," an acclaimed Indonesia manga artist).

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Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution (Preview)

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Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution (Preview)

Utena has saved Anthy by defeating Akio in the final duel, but in doing so she has vanished from the world. Now the student council members at Ohtori Academy find themselves in their own revolutions. Revolutionary Girl Utena, which sequel Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution releases October 22nd.

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Yen Press Announces 4 New Manga and Light Novel Acquisitions

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Yen Press Announces 4 New Manga and Light Novel Acquisitions

Yen Press, LLC announced a slate of upcoming titles that include the manga series When a Magician’s Pupil Smiles and Goblin Slayer Side Story II: Dai Katana and the light novel series and manga adaptation of I Was
a Bottom-Tier Bureaucrat for 1,500 Years, and the Demon King Made Me a Minister.

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Yen Press Highlights Horror Manga Release - KING OF EDEN

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Yen Press Highlights Horror Manga Release - KING OF EDEN

Yen Press amps up the horror with the release of the new manga, King of Eden. The visceral new work is written by Takashi Nagasaki is the acclaimed co-author (along with famed creator Naoki Urasawa) of Monster, 20th Century Boys, Master, Keaton, Billy Bat and Pluto.

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The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya November Debut Detailed By Yen Press

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The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya November Debut Detailed By Yen Press

Following an announcement from the Kadokawa Shoten’s Sneaker Bunko Twitter account of The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya, the next installment of the classic light novel series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Yen Press, LLC announced a digital release of the highly anticipated volume scheduled for November 25, 2020, simultaneous with the Japanese release.

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Yen Press Details New Manga & Light Novel Releases For August

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Yen Press Details New Manga & Light Novel Releases For August

News today from Yen Press on 10 new manga and light novel releases set for release in August.

New manga series launches include: Fiancé of the Wizard, I Don't Know How to Give Birth!, I Love You So Much, I Hate You, the Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Complete Omnibus Edition, and the manga version of Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai.

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New Sci-Fi Manga Japan Sinks 2020 Launches on Mangamo App

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New Sci-Fi Manga Japan Sinks 2020 Launches on Mangamo App

Mangamo, the mobile manga subscription service, has announced that its first Mangamo Original Manga, Japan Sinks 2020, based on the Netflix Original Anime by famed director Masaaki Yuasa (Devilman Crybaby, Lu Over the Wall), is now available on the Mangamo app, available for download for the U.S. and Canada on the Apple App Store

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