So I’m A Spider So What? Creators Interview Video Released
With pretty much every convention being cancelled this year due to COVID-19, there hasn’t been a lot of opportunities for fans, especially Western fans, to interact with Japanese creators so Yen Press held a virtual panel where they interviewed the creators of So I’m A Spider So What?, the author Okina Baba and illustrator Tsukasa Kiyu. The nearly half hour long interview features questions ...
A Certain Magical Index SS, Wolf & Parchment Manga, and More Licensed by Yen Press
Yen Press has announced that they have acquired a number of new licenses that they plan on releasing sometime in the future since none of these titles have currently been given release windows. These include three manga titles, a pair of light novel series, and an art book. The three manga series that were acquired are The White Cat’s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King’s Lap, Wolf & Parch...
Yen Press Details Sekiro Art Book; Other October Releases
Last year Sekiro delighted many by offering a unique experience from FromSoftware and now fans of that game will soon have a chance to delve a bit deeper as Yen Press has detailed their October release line-up and it happens to include not only the official art book for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice but the premiere of a number of other highly anticipated manga and light novels as well. Sekiro: Shadow...
BanG Dream! Volume 1 to be Released in English Digitally on March 30
If you happen to be a fan of the BanG Dream! anime airing this season then you’ll soon have the chance to read the manga in English. Shogakukan Asia has announced hat the first volume of the manga will be released in English on March 30th and you can see an example of what the translation will look like through a preview here. Currently the only areas that BanG Dream! volume 1 will be releas...
Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch Novel Licensed by Seven Seas
While Seven Seas Entertainment has acquired a number of licenses, many of these were manga releases and one just so happened to be a classic manga. This time around the company has picked up another classic but this time it happens to be a novel in a series that will appear quite familiar for longtime anime fans and possibly an attempt to test the waters for future releases. Record of Lodoss War: ...
Dragon Half Manga Licensed by Seven Seas
All through last week Seven Seas Entertainment announced a wide-array of manga licenses and one of their last announcements will please fans of classic manga. The Dragon Half manga series ran back in 1989 and although it inspired a two episode OVA that covered a small portion of the manga, the series was never given much attention in the West outside of fan efforts. Well that will soon change as S...
Captain Harlock: Dimensional Voyage Licensed by Seven Seas
With many licenses already under their belts this week Seven Seas Entertainment has added yet another one to the list by announcing that they have acquired the license to the Captain Harlock: Dimensional Voyage manga that currently has five volumes released in Japan. The first of these volumes will be released in English on October 3rd. This manga series is an all-new contemporary take on space pi...
Devilman G Manga Licensed by Seven Seas
Continuing their licensing spree Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that they have acquired the rights to release the spin-off manga by Go Nagai and Rui Takatō, Devilman G. The company describes this series as being “a modern retelling of the horror manga epic that pulls elements from the franchise’s rich forty year history.” The first volume of the series, that currently has over five m...
Seven Seas Licenses Classic Novels with Manga Illustrations, Count of Monte Christo Manga
While Seven Seas Entertainment has plenty of different manga licenses, they are also one of the few companies that has dabbled with bringing over Japanese interpretations of classic novels and now they are expanding that reach a little further. The company has licensed five classic novels with illustrations from Japanese artists and will be releasing them later this year. The titles include The Se...
Unmagical Girl, Magical Girl Special Ops Asuka, and Alice & Zouroku licensed by Seven Seas
Seven Seas is continuing with their licensing spree by announcing three new acquisitions today that all happen to fall into the same category, at least as far as the focus goes. The three manga are all magical girl oriented and happen to be Ryuichi Yokoyama and Manmaru Kamitsuki’s Unmagical Girl with the first volume arriving on September 12th, Makoto Fukami and Seigo Tokiya’s Magical ...
Former Attack on Titan Editor Arrested as Suspect in Wife’s Murder
Jung-hyun Park, the first editor to have helped with the popular Attack on Titan manga series, has been arrested in suspicion of murdering his wife. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department have charged him with homicide after the assistant editor-in-chief of Kodansha’s magazine continued to change his story about how he found his deceased wife. According to NHK News, the husband called for emer...
Hatsune Miku Presents: Hachune Miku’s Everday Vocaloid Paradise Licensed by Seven Seas
Yesterday Seven Seas Entertainment announced a pair of manga license acquisitions and they are continuing on that role with another one that fans of a certain Vocaloid will be happy to hear about. The company has announced that they have acquired the license to Ontama’s Hatsune Miku Presents: Hachune Miku’s Everyday Vocaloid Paradise. The first volume for the manga series, which will be rele...