Anime NYC 2017: Ernest Woo, Sun Bang, and TappyToon
At AnimeNYC, Ernest Woo and Sun Bang spent the majority of their time meeting not only fans of their platform, but introducing a new...
12 Days of Anime 2017: Loving The Kobayashi Household
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid turned out to be a major success story both in Japan and the West. We love the believable relationship Kobayashi...
Otaku Coin: A Cryptocurrency for Anime Fans?
"Support the industry!"
All throughout the anime and manga community and beyond, fans and company workers have urged interested parties to, to put it bluntly,...
12 Days of Anime 2017: Being Tanya Degurechaff
There are some characters that come along that, no matter what kind of evil they get up to, you can't help but cheer them...
Dark Horse’s Release of CLAMP’s Wish Manga Has Been Delayed…Again
There's delays of manga, there's indefinite delays of manga (see: Seven Seas' unknown holding pattern with their Angel Beats! releases), and then there's whatever...
Paprika and Perfect Blue: A Short Case Study in What Kon Does Best
Allow me to get slightly ahead of myself for a moment. Being slightly less than a decade apart, Paprika and Perfect Blue are extremely...
State of the Manga Market, Via ICv2’s Insider Talks 2020
A few weeks ago ICv2 announced the launch of ICv2 Insider Talks 2020. This would normally be held at New York Comic Con, and...
The Media Do Manga Tour: Cash Boy, God Says!, Heart Break Club
Cash Boy
Title: Cash Boy
Published in: 1994, by Nihon Bungeisha
Author: Mio Murao
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Ecchi
Demographic: Seinen(?)
Cash Boy is a story that begins with tragedy. Takanori...
Sonny Strait on Being Bardock and More Anime Films in Theaters
It all began after the premiere of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods in North Texas. Local news stations and newspapers covered the event,...
Will the Physical-Digital Divide Only Grow Bigger?
Chihayafuru. The Crown of Thorns. Sekirei.
What do these series have in common? They're among the growing list of digital-only releases.
The Big Debate
Most of you...