One of Japan’s most celebrated and beloved comic book and anime creations, Urusei Yatsura delivered a total of just under 200 high-voltage weekly blasts of supernatural-and-alien-augmented ...

Sasaki and Miyano volume 1, a BL manga rated Teen, was recently banned district-wide by Florida’s Brevard County Public School Board. This occurred after a mother who hadn’t read the book put in an ...

Manga in America have age ratings like All Ages or 16+, but who decides these ratings, how do they decide them, and how consistent are they? Some schools have pulled manga from the shelves over ...

Yosuke Nakamura and Kyotaro Azuma’s Tenkaichi: The Greatest Warrior Under the Rising Sun manga has been running via Kodansha’s Young Animal imprint since January 2021, and now it’s getting an anime.

Anime has become a medium to drive conversation, connect cultures, and reformat media as we know it. Animation studios across the globe have found influence through Japanese animation styles and ...

Punichan’s The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom light novels have an anime in the works, and the latest update has it set for a January 2026 debut. A new key visual was also ...

Manga: it ain’t just about the laughs. One of the most appealing parts of the medium, as our readers well know, is the wide range of genres it spans, and with it, the wide range of emotions it can ...

Episode 3 of the Gachiakuta anime made its broadcast debut in Japan, and with it came a handful of new cast members. Voice actors were revealed for Semiu, Gris, Follo and Tomme, and you can see who’s ...

Last year, the Japan Animation Creators Association (Janica) partnered with publisher Dai Nippon Printing to conduct a survey of working conditions in the anime industry, and a detailed report of the ...

As with every new installment of the Disney Twisted-Wonderland manga, we get a new protagonist. In the game, of course, the hero is you—or “Yu”—a faceless exchange student from the real world. With ...

This article originally appeared in the April 2020 issue of Otaku USA magazine, on stands now and available online. This is the extended version of the interview, enjoy! Chavez took a moment out of ...

The anime The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (a.k.a. Higeki no Genkyō to naru Saikyō Gedō Last Boss Joō wa Min no tame ni Tsukushimasu. in Japanese), which debuted in 2023, ...