


The wallet-draining fighting game Dead or Alive 5: Last Round is set to receive yet another impressive salvo of DLC costumes, conceived and illustrated by none other than Tamiki Wakaki, the mangaka of Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai.
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Fans have demonstrated passion for their favorite manga by voting for the top mangaka of 2015, surprising few as the most popular mangaka masters of blockbuster shonen fame easily nab the top spots.
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As the seemingly endless saga of ninja manga Naruto finally comes to a close, the Asahi Shimbun has managed to snag an interview with Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto – with one particular highlight being Kishimoto’s realization of just how large his creation has become and its vast success in the west.
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The shoujo version of Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun delivers love comedy featuring a budding young mangaka’s attempts to pursue her shoujo manga fantasies with her senpai, which unfortunately don’t turn out as well as she had imagined…
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Arisa Yamato – sadly now likely to remain best known as an assistant on Shingeki no Kyojin for the time being – has had publication of her upcoming new manga cancelled only days before release due to it apparently falling foul of Tokyo’s draconian manga censorship regime, upsetting her sensei Hajime Isayama as well as Ken Akamatsu and others.
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Sexy mangaka anime Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to has aired its final episode with some actual manga related content, while ending its season on a high note with one last deviant act – albeit with a twist that it is likely few were expecting.
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A new low in standards of artistic correctness in advertising, to say nothing of quality control, has been causing marvel online – although plenty of alternative explanations have also surfaced…
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The latest manga to find itself inexplicably the subject of a live action adaptation is none other than Shonen Jump’s aspiring mangaka title Bakuman.
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Shonen Jump has finally made a public condemnation of the ongoing efforts of Japanese politicians to “destroy Japanese manga” with their obsessive attempts to brand it child pornography.
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Shingeki no Kyojin fans may be in for a far less shocking time than they bargained for – creator Hajime Isayama has revealed he has dumped the “traumatic” ending he planned from the start and now has no idea how it will end, saying that upsetting fans of the anime version with a shocking ending where everyone dies would be “criminal.”
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Berserk fans have been decrying Kentaro Miura’s decision to abandon Berserk yet again, this time to release an entirely new manga.
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Nakayoshi’s youngest ever published mangaka in 26 years is a 14-year-old schoolgirl, and is by all accounts rather good.
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