The Adult Swim x Crunchyroll Partnership Is Officially Sunk
Way back in 2018, Crunchyroll and Adult Swim announced they were going to team up on some new shows as part of the "Crunchyroll...
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...
Anime Strike: Amazon Strikes Out After All
A year ago this month, Amazon made headlines with the announcement of their Anime Strike service. Well, I hope you weren't planning a big...
Should You Start Your Holiday Shopping Even Earlier This Year?
Usually, in the beginning of October, I write about the start of the holiday shopping season. After all, each of the final three months...
The Strange Situation of Ayakashi Triangle
While anime and manga have never been more popular in the US and other English-speaking nations, it's only reached that point because of several...
The Shoujo Bestseller Drought: Where Have All the Shoujo Gone?
Take a look at The New York Times' list of the U.S.'s weekly bestselling manga here for the last week of February/first week of...
futekiya Permanently Lands on Manga Planet
Back in 2012, a Japanese media company called FANTASISTA teamed up with printer/manufacturer Dai Nippon Printing to create Manga Planet. While originally limited to...
SONimation: The Sony × FUNimation Deal
When Crunchyroll and FUNimation announced their partnership, there were a lot of jokes about how they got married. One brought its extensive catalog of...
Simon & Schuster Will Probably Need to Find a New House
November 2020. Suffice to say, a lot was happening then. But one of the many headlines from that time period was that Penguin Random...
GameStonk The Movie and Other GameStop News
GameStop is the gift that keeps on giving as the subject of this column. And just when I think I won't need to be...