
With unusual candour for a top mangaka, on the eve of the release of the first animated Dragon Ball movie in over a decade series creator Akira Toriyama has taken some time out to bash the notoriously bad Hollywood adaptation he authorised.
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Square Enix manga magazine Shonen Gangan has astonished readers by deliberately printing a manga upside-down “as punishment” for the author missing a deadline.
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One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda’s “sudden illness” recently resulted in One Piece abruptly disappearing from the latest Weekly Shonen Jump – an absence they reassure readers will last only a week, although neither fans nor the industry will be happy to be reminded the world’s best selling mangaka is only mortal.
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Apocalyptic zombie/boob action manga Highschool of the Dead is finally restarting after a 2 year hiatus, raising hopes that the anime will return as well.
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The girls of Haruhi and Ore no Imouto have been drafted in to make the learning of English more moe in the form of English annotated versions of the novels, whilst top seiyuu have been “helping” with pronunciation guides in what seems to have become a mini-industry of late.
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To Love-Ru Darkness brings back its signature little brown girl to add yet more conflict and eroticism, with seemingly impotent protagonist Rito caught in the middle.
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“That” mangaka – Mari Yamazaki, of Thermae Romae fame – will be tackling a manga edition of the biography of “that” entrepreneur – Steve Jobs, deceased founder of Apple.
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The creator of the manga adapted into blockbuster bathing movie Thermae Romae has spoken of her outrage at learning that of the movie’s 6 billion yen gross she would only be receiving a paltry 1 million yen.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Feb 23, 2013 23:40 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Guro, Kodansha, Marketing, Moe, Sankarea, Translation, USA, Zombies


The choice of cover for Sankarea’s US edition has raised more than a few fan eyebrows – ditching as it does the eye-wateringly cute cover of the original in favour of hanging intestines and undead menace more befitting Romeroland and its eternal zombie boom.
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The latest “bangaihen” chapter of To-Love-ru Darkness, appearing in the pages of Jump SQ.19′s 6th volume, has gone from highly creative and unusual fetish action all the way back to classic tentacle rape, proving that there is life in the old pseudopod yet.
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The latest chapter of To-Love-ru Darkness has thrust reluctant harem master Rito in another encounter with dripping wet girls, as usual also managing to incorporate some of the most subtle pseudo-censorship yet seen in the pages of ecchi manga…
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A gallery exhibition of works by artist Makoto Aida has been denounced as “sexist child pornography,” after its depictions of nude quadruple amputees wearing dog collars inflamed the sensibilities of feminist anti-pornography crusaders.
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