GTO Mangaka Tooru Fujisawa Weds Actress

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Tooru Fujisawa, the 43-year-old mangaka who gained famed worldwide for Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO), has married 27-year-old actress Ayano Sugiyama, known for a Kamen Rider role amongst many others.

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  • Anonymous commented on October 23, 2010 04:11

    "she's 27, both are not the youngest" fuck you man, I'm 30 and my ovaries can beat up your sperm any time literary miscarragies as anon said need special care as one grows older but I guess it... More

  • Anonymous commented on October 16, 2010 17:11

    Hope the couple good luck and the kid awesomeness from his 'rents are all we need to do here....... More


Mayu-tan’s Yui Cosplay Quite Something

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Popular shoujo mangaka and aspiring sniper Mayu-tan (or Mayu Shinjo) has published a rather convincing picture of herself cosplaying K-ON!’s Yui Hirasawa.

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  • Anonymous commented on October 1, 2010 11:39

    @ erochichi Thanks for that info. I was wondering how my cousin "anon" thought that Yui's Les Paul was a "Traditional" model. You must be a player also, seeing that you noticed such small details. ^_^... More

  • Anonymous commented on October 1, 2010 11:38

    Lol u srs?... More


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The editorial staff of Jump Square have accused the new generation of aspiring mangaka that they don’t put enough effort into drawing “cool” male characters.

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  • Anonymous commented on December 12, 2011 16:35

    Only mentally devoid twelve-year-olds give a shit about when an anime was made. The mere fact that you had no idea who Char was makes the conclusion solid. Even Konata-chan likes Gundam, don't diss a... More

  • Anonymous commented on December 11, 2011 01:51

    "I just cant empathize the weak, loser type males that fill modern manga/anime." Agreed, I'm getting tired of every anime I watch ending with the main character STILL not choosing a girl out of his 57... More


“Anime is Running Out of Ideas”

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The anime industry has completely run out of ideas of its own and is being forced to plunder manga at an ever increasing pace to make up for it, runs a recent critique.

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  • Anonymous commented on October 1, 2011 15:11

    I love that shit... More

  • TyRANT commented on September 25, 2010 16:18

    It's pretty late to say here, but I'm pretty sure mikan means orange, am I wrong?... More


Mangaka Busted for Schoolgirl Sex

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A mangaka has been arrested for having paid sex with a schoolgirl.

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  • Sylar commented on September 15, 2010 04:39

    Since 17 is illegal the correct term should have been underage and not child since one thing is certain and that is that a 17year old is not a child.... More

  • Pyrus commented on September 13, 2010 10:31

    Why did he have to say he wasn't gettin' along with his girl? He should've said he was doin' research for his next manga series.... More


Marksmanship, Mayu-tan Style

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Shoujo mangaka Mayu Shinjo, or Mayu-tan, recently obtained a sniper rifle, using it to take aim at her critics.

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  • Tex_Arcana commented on August 5, 2012 02:40

    Don't mind if I do!... More

  • Anonymous commented on May 29, 2012 07:24

    First, its your right not to love her painting style and her manga, that's your taste. I have no problem with it. But ... 1. Not all women and men are the same in all... More


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Black Lagoon mangaka Rei Hiroe has told manga pirates in no uncertain terms that they are thieving swine and that “I hope these guys pirating manga get pancreatic cancer soon.”

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  • Chen-04 commented on August 9, 2013 22:43

    Only if localizations ain't messed up to the point were it isn't enjoyably anymore.... like 99.97% of all manga are.... More

  • Anonymous commented on April 1, 2013 02:09

    As long as there's a treasure in the sea, The Pirates will taking it for free....... More


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Battle Angel Alita – Last Order has been forced out of publication due to Shueisha’s objection to such unacceptably discriminatory language as “psycho” and “crazy” – its mangaka’s refusal to bow before publisher pressure has resulted in publication being cancelled.

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  • Sylar commented on September 8, 2010 07:04

    The reasons are irrelevant. This is nothing more than dictatorship shit. A man should be free to say whatever the fuck he wants to say.... More

  • Sylar commented on September 8, 2010 07:02

    That tells you what? That they lost all sense of logic. So basically they are complete psychos. No wonder they have such a problem hearing the word.... More


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The mangaka responsible for Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) has excoriated fans who persist in expressing their love for her works to her whilst blithely admitting to her face never actually paying for them, calling them “thieves” and “morally degraded” whilst exhorting fans to support the works they supposedly love.

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  • Anonymous commented on November 17, 2013 14:31

    How are you supporting it when you don't buy their products? Think mangakas subsist on air and likes and pageviews alone?... More

  • Anonymous commented on November 17, 2013 14:27

    So don't whine when someone steals your wi-fi/comic books/food/car/money because IT TOOK MAJOR TIME AND EFFORT TO STEAL YOUR SHIT K I DON'T CARE HOW LONG AND HARD YOU WORKED FOR IT IM ENTITLED BLARGGHHHH... More


US Military Moe Mangaka Harassed

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The mangaka responsible for illustrating the US military’s recent moe manga (visible here) has been receiving defamatory mail.

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  • Anonymous commented on March 19, 2011 12:56

    Using the opinion of Sankaku Complex as a representative for the collective opinions of Japan would be a mistake.... More

  • Anonymous commented on March 18, 2011 14:25

    That was a very retarded comment coming from you. What a failure.... More


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A ranking of the top 10 mangaka to have changed the history of manga reveals some distinctly uncontroversial choices.

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  • Anonymous commented on July 17, 2015 16:32

    Where the hell is Hirohiko Araki on this list!?! Fuck this gay Earth...... More

  • Ario commented on February 18, 2015 18:54

    Wut. Astro Boy mangaka? naked girl? uhhhh...... More


Top Mangaka: “Publishers Are The Ones Raping Us!”

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Blockbuster mangaka Shūhō Satō was so disgusted by the exploitation he endured at the hands of big publishers that he exposed them in a series of damaging online revelations, and then started his own online manga distribution service in competition.

He lays bare the exploitative publishing industry straitjacket forced on mangaka in a candid interview, reproduced below.

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  • alidan commented on June 25, 2010 14:51

    if you can describe something as a cluster fuck wall of text, you have problems.... More

  • Anonymous commented on June 25, 2010 08:20

    We're talking about Japan, though. It's probably a good assumption that the average Japanese manga reader is considerably more internet-affine than the average American bookstore dweller.... More


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