By the time Jojo returned to a completely non-Japanese lead, via Part 7: Steel Ball Run 's Johnny Joestar, the series had become a seinen strip. But that international touch never left, as Giorno ...

The Authorized Books of Japan (ABJ), an anti-piracy body, estimates that the pirate site cost the Japanese manga industry some 208.2 billion yen from November 2019 to October 2021.

Manga has been a staple in Japan, with a market worth 676 billion Japanese yen in 2021. It takes up an extensive part of the publishing market and is often recognized for its variety and ...

The Japanese government will launch a massive anti-piracy campaign for the anime and manga industry this Friday. Update: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry revealed its Manga-Anime ...

A Japanese manga artist's apocalyptic vision has fueled superstitions about travel to the East Asian country this summer—but not everyone is buying into it, as one expert told Newsweek, "Perhaps ...

“I thought: ‘Anybody can make this’.” Yet Japanese manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons. Last year the manga print market shrank by 2.3% to ¥265bn ($1.9bn).

Japanese manga artists are exploring the use of generative AI to help create new comics or revive old series, such as Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka. Many fellow creators, though, worry about AI’s ...

It is a common misconception that manga and anime are interchangeable terms, with manga being defined as Japanese comics and anime being the animated version of those comics Japan is known for its ...

Good news for Japanese learners. Kadokawa Corporation has published three new books about the Japanese language. The three books are part of the のびーる国語 nobiru kokugo (stretch your Japanese language ...

In the 1960s, Yoshihiro Tatsumi coined the term gekiga, referring to an alternative style of manga that reflects the darker moments of life. His gekiga works from the 1960s and 1970s have been ...

C. Jacqueline Wood couldn’t predict she’d be the owner of College Hill’s new collection of Japanese comic books, Manga Manga. In 2019, her nonprofit The Mini Microcinema in OTR was too busy showcasing ...