On Monday Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed the next One Piece game in the making. Dreamin’! Don’t Give It Up…Everyone! That game is “One Piece: Unlimited World Red” which will be the latest game to fit into the “Unlimited” title and...

SMASH! has just confirmed that director Matsubara Hidenori will be attending the convention this year, joining Japanese voice-actors Masakazu Morita and Haruka Momoi on August 10. Hidenori-san is also a famous character designer and illustrator for well-known classics like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ah! My...

It has been a very long time since Kami Imai’s Needless manga started in the monthly magazine Ultra Jump. So long in fact it has been running for almost a decade since it began back in 2004. Now however it is all coming to an end. Today it was discovered that the July issue of Ultra Jump magazine will...

In what can only be called a sleeper hit, Yusei Matsui’s Assassination Classroom manga has become a massive success. The manga’s first volume has now topped 1 million sales, an impressive feat for such a young manga. The series began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine back in July of...

Namco have issued out a press release officially announcing the opening date and attractions for the new indoor Shonen Jump Magazine theme park. J-World Tokyo, located in the Sunshine City World Import Mart, will be open to the public on July the 11th and will have attraction based around popular Jump...

The latest issue of Weekly Shonen Magazine has announced that Yuji Terajima’s popular baseball manga Ace of Diamond will be getting an anime adaptation. Furthermore it has been revealed that the anime will be produced by two anime studio powerhouses, the legendary Madhouse and Production I.G. This...

Japan’s first Blu-ray/DVD volume of hit manga-turned-anime Attack on Titan will contain the progenitor of the series, a prototype manga created by Hajime Isayama when he was just 19 years old. Announced in the June issue of Bessatsu Shounen Magazine, the one-shot manga will be 65-pages long and...

Kodansha USA have now confirmed through their official Tumblr page what many had speculated for quite some time now, they will no longer be rescuing any more Del Rey manga titles. Kodansha USA took over publishing under Random House’s manga inprint replacing Del Rey in 2010. After the take over,...

“Stand tall, Eren!” Imagine-nation, the anime/manga/game spotlight show, recently had an episode where they featured the the Spring Anime release Attack on Titan. They discussed a great deal of things like; the context of the series, it in relation to the Japanese industry of Anime and Manga, a...

As some of you may already know, this Saturday on May 4th, or May the Fourth, is Free Comic Book Day where various participating comic book stores will give away free copies of specific comics/manga out to those who visit the store. Today Viz revealed what they will be providing comic book stores to...

If you’re a fan of Anime and Manga you will definitely know what Naruto is, even more, you would definitely know it’s creator Masashi Kishimoto. Now if you’re a fan of Mr. Kishimoto’s work then get ready because he’s got something a little bit awesome to unleash into the Manga...

If you’re an anime fan that loves collecting memorabilia then you would know all about the Nendoroid series of figurines. It’s a series of really cute, super adorable little figures that make any character (Cute or not) super, damn, cute! Now if I was to say “Hey, team, I they’re...

Junya Inoue, creator of the Btooom! manga, announced on Friday that he has completed the first chapter of his new manga La Vie en Doll. Inoue revealed this via twitter, stating: “The first story of the new series of “La Vie en Doll” was finally completed after today! I’m sorry, it is...

Anime.AU has been changed and renamed Gamma.Con, the name change was done so that Video Games and Pop Culture could feature alongside anime. Now the Con isn’t so focused which means that it will, most likely, expand and be a fair bit bigger than previous events. Gamma.Con, like Anime.AU, will still be...

Today some sad news for manga fans has been revealed. The company will be shutting down their digital manga store that allows users in North America and France to purchase a number of manga volumes and read them online. The shut down will occur on May 23rd but the company did state that anyone who has...

The latest issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Dessert Magazine has revealed that Rubico’s My Little Monster manga series will be concluding in its August 2013 issue set for release on July 24th. This means that there is only two chapters left until My Little Monter reaches its conclusion. The 12th and...

The writing has been on the wall for quite some times as fans of Medaka Box now and finally after numerous climactic events that probably could have ended the series, the Medaka Box manga will be ending in this week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. MangaNewsJapon spotted the announcement in...

Production I.G. have confirmed that an anime adaptation of the Genshiken: 2nd Generation manga is in the works with a projected premiere of Summer 2013. Tsutomu Mizushima, having previously directed the original Genshiken anime, has been tapped to direct this new project. Character Design and Animation...

At the Infinite Stratos All Night Festival event, it was confirmed that the series is to receive a second season. It will be a continuation on the previously released season, adding the characters Takenashi and Kanzashi Sarashiki from the original light novels. Yasuhito Kikichi will once again direct the...

Attack On Titan has blown up in popularity recently with the introduction of the new anime, only in it’s third episode, and some awesome merchandise releases people are going absolutely nuts, so much so that people seem to have forgotten about the live-action adaptation that has said to have been in...

The official Attack On Titan site has started posting Chimi-Chara type comic strips set as a manga spinoff and usually is shown after each new episode airs in Japan. It’s probably a good idea considering how intense the main series is, not a lot can bring you back from watching people get devoured by...

F: I guarantee that whilst reading the title most of you had a character in mind, a character that you kind of hate, just a little bit, despite how much you love the anime or manga they’re in. The first person to come to my mind is Tsunayoshi “Tsuna” Sawada from the Shonen Jumps series...

Manga artist Hiro Mashima has revealed via Twitter that his crossover manga that was published in 2011 will be animated. The anime itself will be included as a DVD in the limited edition of Fairy Tail’s 39th volume on August 16. FAIRY...

The first episode of the Attack On Titan anime series came out two weeks ago which means there has only been two episodes released which means for two Sundays in a row I’ve just kind of sat there filling with these things called emotions, they’re kind of weird and make you feel stuff and anime...

Bancho Badass and lead of Crows Zero I & II, Genji If you’re a Bancho Buff like me you’ve been waiting for the next Crows movie to be released since the ending credits of the last Crows movie. That’s dedication! Now while we don’t have a movie release we have a pretty sweet...

Applications for the Seventh International Manga Awards begin tomorrow and will continue until the end of May. Illustrators will enter two copies of their manga titles to the International Manga Award Executive Committee where each submission will be judged and four will be chosen for the award. The award...