Crunchyroll Springs a Surprise on Fans This Spring
Whenever a company gets new management, everyone has the same questions: what's going to change? What's going to stay the same? On one hand,...
Punpun Punyama’s Puny Plight: A Goodnight Punpun Discussion
Last month Inio Asano's Goodnight Punpun made it's debut as a published, translated title that everybody could buy. Two people, Justin and Manjiorin, ended...
Why The Anime Strike Service is Ending, With Tweets
Kotaku's Cecilia D'Anastasio reported Amazon's ending their Anime Strike service. I bet you're wondering, aside from the double paywall, with the amount of titles...
Dark Horse Embraces Its New Home
Neon colors. Big hair. New wave music. Arcades. Indiana Jones. Full House. Transformers. Care Bears. Blockbuster stores. The 1980s introduced a lot of trends...
A Lookie at Jump Rookie
It wasn't too long ago I wrote about how manga serializations are changing in Japan. Since then, several other magazines have been announced they're...
Manga Expansions at Best Buy and Walmart: Good News or Unnecessary?
For the first time ever, Best Buy has begun selling select manga titles (Naruto, Assassination Classroom) by packaging them with anime. Meanwhile, Walmart has...
DMI’s Kickstarter Woes Continue
Time can pass by in a blink of an eye, and we often wish for it to slow
down. When it comes to something we...
Cute Girls’ Time to Shine: Manga Time KIRARA Comics
Are you a fan of CGDCT (cute girls doing cute things)? Well, be a MRRFF (manga reader reading for free) with a new online...
ANiUTa Stops the Music
Anisong and J-pop fans got a bit of bad news recently: ANiUTa is shutting down.
ANiUTa, if you recall, launched in the US in August...
In Idol Dreams, This Is A Chikage Deguchi Story (at 31 Years Old)
For a title serialized in Melody -- a magazine intended for a shoujo (and a sort of josei) audience -- there was that moment...