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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is the hot topic right now, with everyone from the New York Times to Japanese government officials talking about it. It’s a good time to be Koyoharu Gotoge, the creator ...

Yoshitoki Oima’s To Your Eternity manga officially has its sights set on an ending. Volume 24 just hit shelves in Japan, revealing that volume 25 will be the final ...

Milky Subway takes place in a spacefaring world that’s at once futuristic and retro. There are hovercars, space subways, and aliens. But everything is lived-in and well-used, and these futuristic ...

More details have arrived for the DIGIMON BEATBREAK anime, which was first unveiled back in March. The series is set to premiere in Japan on October 5, and more cast and staff have been unveiled ahead ...

If you play mobile games, you may have noticed ads for ISEKAI: Slow Life lately. This anime-inspired app just launched a few days ago, with hundreds of thousands of potential dimension-hoppers ...

pictSPACE, a Japanese online shopping service dealing with doujinshi, is the latest Japanese retailer to soon lose the ability to take payments through Visa and Mastercard. This is part of a growing ...

It’s been a little over seven years since author Yuumikan kicked off the BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense. novel series, and now it’s officially come to an end. Yuumikan ...

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 ...

The Japanese brand UNIQLO is known for its everyday classic tees, bottoms and outerwear, but also for its anime collaborations. Recently, the brand launched DAN DA DAN, Mofusand, and Dragon Ball DAIMA ...