The Great Light Novel Experience
It's been about two years since Yen Press announced at Sakuracon that they'd be making a push to bring more light novels to the West. The history of LNs was poor...
12 Days of Anime 2017: A Year of Mature School Romance Drama
I tend to despair often when I see anime romance shows (both comedy and drama) where ecchi, tsundere girls, clueless guys, idiotic male best friends and bad jokes are all main...
Out of Print, Out of Luck?
Most of us can't keep up with every release. Some series get delayed and we forget about it, others speed up and make it hard to keep up, and other titles...
An Interview With Sho Shibamoto, The Manga Artist Using Kickstarter To Localize His Manga
With the power of crowdfunding, Flower Knight Dakini is set to be available in English. Sho Shibamoto, who has been drawing manga since 2008, was able to answer some questions I...
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 important works in director Satoshi Kon’s career...
Instant Analysis: How to keep a mummy
This is the newest manga to join Crunchyroll's manga library, and another series from their collaboration with Japanese comic app Comico. While the origin of a manga usually doesn't affect the...
12 Days of Anime 2017: I Will Never Forget You, Hand Shakers
It doesn't matter that this currently holds a 5.73 rating on MAL, a 2 star rating on A-P or a 44.53% rating on Kitsu. Hand Shakers is the most memorable show...
Hi, HIDIVE!
Where do you stream your anime?
Chances are you answered "Crunchyroll" or "FUNimation". Maybe some of you thought of Anime Strike or Daisuki.
Did anybody choose Anime Network? Or HIDIVE?
Oh, the latter doesn't...
How Anime and Manga Translators Learned Japanese
Over the past week, I reached out to a number of translators currently translating in either the anime or manga industry. There are ways you can learn Japanese, but some way...
Is DMP MIA?
Not too long ago, I needed to check Digital Manga, Inc.'s website for information on some manga or another. So I did what was obvious: I typed digitalmanga.com into Firefox, and...