Manga

Get ready for a sweet and sour love stories meant for adults. Creator Masahiro Itobashi and artist Hiroyuki Tamakoshi join hands in creating a sequel to the popular manga Boys Be, dubbed as Boys Be ~adult season~. In this year’s 17th issue of Kodansha’s Evening magazine on Saturday, the two collaborators revealed of this upcoming project which will be launched in the same magazine.

The Evening Magazine is released in every two weeks, but the manga series will run quarterly. Keep Reading

We’ve all heard all about dainty girls, princesses and damsels in distress, and there are heroines who are strong, fierce and confident. In the world of manga, women are unstoppable, which leads to a great number of stories within the bishoujo section of the illustrated world. girls, no matter what age they are in, come to defy their current situations and magically turn into an overnight superhero, and extraordinary princess, a crime fighting officer, and most recently, a detective. Keep Reading

Mangaka Natsumi Ando has announced that she will be ending her shoujo manga Arisa in the September Issue of the Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine. Ando has launched this manga in Nakayoshi in December 2008, to which Kodansha has published the 10th book volume of the title past April. North America distribution was led by Del Rey, but Kodansha USA took over the title along with other Del Ray publications in 2010. Keep Reading

It has been revealed that this year’s 40th issue of the Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits manga series will begin its new installment on Dragon Head mangaka Minetaro Mochizuki’s new title, Chiikasobee. This story is based on the historical novel created by the great writer Shuugorou Yamamoto, whose plot follows a young carpenter who cares for children, orphaned by a tragedy which struck their community. The Chiikasobee novel will begin on September 3. Keep Reading

Masayuki Kusumi and Etsuko Mizusawa’s collaboration project Hana no Zubora-Meshi (translated as Hana’s Sloppy Meals) is now prepping up for its live action television, premiering this October. This manga short tracks the everyday life of a cute but often lonely housewife named Hana, and the many meals she cooks for herself while her husband is on a faraway assignment. This is an award-nominated story from Kusumi, who is also known for his other cooking-themed work, Kodoku no Gourmet. Keep Reading