ShÅnen Jump isn’t the only manga magazine celebrating 50 years of publication this year. Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits, first published in 1968, is also turning half a century old. The seinen magazine has been home to Maison Ikkoku, Goodnight Punpun, I am...
Despite publishers’ steadfast reliance on print publication, a new wave of digital media is taking hold. Hiroyuki Nakano, the new editor-in-chief of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, confirmed in July that rising digital demand is making up for...
Bunkasha released Kikori Kimura’s TÅgÅ ShicchÅ-shÅ Nikki (Schizophrenia Diary) manga book on Tuesday. Kimura began having symptoms of schizophrenia in high school. The book’s “comic essays” tell her personal experiences. The book discusses the...
What’s the next inanimate object or concept to join the personification craze in Japan? Fonts. Yes, various Japanese typographical fonts are transforming into attractive young men to appear in a new Font Danshi! (Font Boys) project. In the story, second-year...
Dance and vocal group AAA member and singer-songwriter SKY-HI (Gundam Build Divers, Gurazeni theme songs; seen below) made his voice-acting debut in a commercial for Kamentotsu’s Koguma no Cake-ya-san (Koguma’s Cake Shop) manga. In the video, SKY-HI plays...
The April issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Sunday GX magazine features Rei Hiroe’s Black Lagoon manga on its cover and bundles a calendar for the series. The calendar covers the period of April 2018 to March 2019. In addition to previously published color...