Anime NYC 2019: Interview With J-Novel Club Founder Sam Pinansky
J-Novel Club has been established for over 3 years now, and the company has grown a lot since its debut in 2016. From releasing...
Taisho x Alice x Disaster
Otome games have been on the rise recently. Visual novels have been exploding in the west thanks to games like Ace Attorney and Zero...
Let’s Go Retro
Each
year, anime fans anxiously await news of what manga or light novel is getting
an adaptation or what completely new show their favorite director/studio is...
Cosplayers on Reading Complex Age, A Cosplay Manga
Complex Age, by Yui Sakuma, is a manga that revolves around Nagisa Kataura, a 26 year old temp-worker that is also a cosplayer,...
Darling in the Franxx: Borrowed Scenes, Metaphorical Sex and Zero Two
NB: This post was written after episode 5
In the post-apocalyptic future, humanity has sheltered itself in huge mobile cities, Plantations, to hide from their...
Will Sonic’s Makeover Pay Off for Paramount?
You may remember this trailer for the live action Sonic the Hedgehog movie -- it was met with heavy negative reaction. Fans were already...
Another Look at the Manga Piracy Debate
Where do you get your manga?
Hopefully, you answered something like, "At my local bookstore!" or, "At an online retailer!" or even one of the...
The New Light Novel Club on the Block: J-Novel
"I predict that 'light novels' will become more popular in the future. ... I think publishers here in the U.S. will begin to publish...
What Made the ARIA Kickstarter So Successful?
As you probably know by now, Nozomi Entertainment raised money to both release ARIA the ANIMATION on Blu-ray as well as give it an...
The Life of The Convention Traveling Carolina Manga Library
Formed in 2013, the Carolina Manga Library is a traveling manga library based out of South Carolina. Staffed by volunteers and enthusiastic manga fans,...