From Rekuru: This February, Bandai Entertainment will stop producing new anime and manga releases. More »

From Rekuru: With the demand for e-readers nowadays, it’s no surprise that an airline has decided to build in a reader into their seats. But this one isn’t just any e-reader, it’s a manga reader! More »

From Rekuru: It has been announced that Kyoto Seika University will begin offering the first Manga Ph.D. to students starting next April. Very exciting. More »

I’m a girl who loves to eat delicious food. Whether it’s American, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, I love it all. Especially when it comes to foreign delicacies, the presentation really affects my appetite. Nothing looks better than some scrumptious food that’s arranged beautifully! More »

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From Rekuru: The 16th issue of Kodansha’s Good! Afternoon magazine announced on Saturday that Blade of the Immortal creator Hiroaki Samura will be ending his Halcyon Lunch manga in the next issue which will be published in July. Samura launched the manga in the magazine’s premiere issue in 2008. The story is about Gen, a 38 year old man who looses everything and then meets a girl who will eat everything and anything.

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From Rekuru: Here is this week’s manga best-seller list from New York Times! More »

From Rekuru: The month of May has commenced and the anime and manga companies have been busy. Lots of new releases have been scheduled this month and the animenewsnetwork has listed them. Check them out below! More »

From Rekuru: The story creator of Bamboo Blade, Masahiro Totsuka and the manga creator of Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi manga, Yu Minamoto has announced in a combined April 7th blog post that they will be launching a brand new manga series titled Haru Polish! It will officially be launched in the June issue of Akita Shoten’s Monthly Shonen Champion magazine on May 6th. More »

From Rekuru: Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten has confirmed that the creator of Future Diary, Sakae Esuno will be launching a new manga in Monthly Shonen Ace magazine this summer. More »

From Rekuru: The June issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Ikki magazine has announced that the creator of Saturn Apartments, Hisae Iwaoka will be ending her manga series in the next issue in May. More »

From Rekuru: 4Kids. The media distributor that aired all your favorite cartoon shows when you were a kid. Like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, and Shaman King. Well, it seems like those good ole days are over as 4Kids has just filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. More »

From Rekuru: Bokurano is a Shounen science fiction manga, with the title meaning “OURS“. It surrounds a group of middle-school students and their task to fight against the invaders and to save Earth. They need to pilot a robot, named “Zearth“, who would then help them fight the invaders off. More »

From Rekuru: Fans of Blood: The Last Vampire, rejoice! The hit anime movie will receive a spin-off series known as Blood-C. And the best part? It has been revealed that legendary manga artists quartet, CLAMP and production studio Production I.G. will collaborate once more for this series! More »

From Rekuru: According to Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday Magazine, Yellow Tanabe’s Kekkaishi supernatural action manga will reach its end in the next issue, set for a release on April 6. More »

From Rekuru: For those who didn’t know, Sunrise’s Code Geass has had a manga prequel that’s been in serialization for some time now (that’s something I didn’t know). The prequel, Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya, lies in the same timeline as the anime, the story is actually set during Japan’s Edo era. This leaves it open for comparisons to be drawn to other historical manga, and that’s where we get problems. More »

From Rekuru: In response to the disaster that took place in Japan last March 11th, Japanese publisher, Kodansha has agreed to distribute manga sections from Weekly Shonen Magazine, Young Magazine, Morning, Evening, Be-Love, and Kiss. More »

From Rekuru: According to the April issue of manga magazine “Monthly G Fantasy“, Hotta Kiichi’s manga “Kimi to Boku” will soon be adapted into an anime TV show! More »

Manga has so many genres and so many different kinds of styles. There are some manga that transcends the sexes, meaning boys and girls will enjoy them, while some are just for boys and some just for girls. The nominees for Best Manga of the Year are…. More »

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2010 saw a lot of great anime and manga. As part of the Ningin 2010 End of the Year Awards, we’re turning to you to let us know what you thought the best anime or manga of the year was by answering this poll question: More »

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The end of the year is fast approaching, and Oricon has tabulated the numbers for their 2010 best-selling comic ranking. Coming in first place: One Piece! Coming in second place: One Piece! Wait… what? More »

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