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TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: March 25 – March 31, 2024
There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. All of the data you find…
GOBLIN SLAYER, The Apothecary Diaries, A Certain Scientific Railgun, A Certain Magical Index, The Irregular at Magic High School
Nayuta
Nayuta is a 1986 sci-fi OVA,based on a three volume manga by Sasaki Junko. (The manga is not available in English.) It's another show that a...
Mobile Police Patlabor, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Akuma Tou no Prince: Mitsume ga Tooru, Botchan, Fist of the North Star
Scramble for the Throne | A Tournament Arc of Excess | Weekly Shonen Jump Greatest Hits
Power of Friendship? Check. 80s machismo? Yup. Every single battle shonen trope you can imagine? Hell fuckin yeah! Scramble for the Throne is a very long, very dumb,…
Turnabout Memories - Part 13
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,
Gintama, Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, Kinnikuman, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, Rewrite
The Emergency Heteronormative Character
There is an archetype in anime and manga that I’ve begun calling the “Emergency Heteronormative Character.” In the beginning, many manga creators do not know where their comics…
Why It’s So Hard for Shounen Battle Manga to End on a High Note
The author of One Piece, Oda Eiichiro, once stated that he always wanted to make a manga series where the ending is the most exciting part. Right now,…
Japan Top Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: September 25 – October 1, 2023
There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. It is thanks to the amazing…
Berserk, Berserk, Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, Kinnikuman
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: September 25 – October 1, 2023
There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. All of the data you find…
The Apothecary Diaries, The Irregular at Magic High School, My Dress-Up Darling, Berserk, Berserk
Heart Cocktail Vol 5
Heart Cocktail , based on a manga series by Watase Seizou, is a joint project between DarkWispers (Darkonius), Lonely Chaser (MartyMcflies...
Akuma Tou no Prince: Mitsume ga Tooru, Bavi Stock, Dallos, Tree in the Sun, Ikkyu the Little Monk
Death Takes a Dive
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho (1969) – Serial 03
So many legendary franchises have been launched by manga originally serialized in the magazine for the manliest of boys, Weekly Shonen Jump. Mazinger Z, Cobra, Kinnikuman, Dr. Slump,…
Mazinger Z, Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac, Sakigake!! Otokojuku, City Hunter, Dr. Slump
Dallos (Blu-ray)
It's been more than ten years since Orphan first released Dallos . After release posts for the DVD version , the HD web version , and the la...
Joker Game, Karuizawa Syndrome, Magic Knight Rayearth, Bavi Stock, Bubblegum Crisis
Sanada 10 Special
Once upon a time, in the ancient days of the mid-oughts, there was a TV series with the rather long title of Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densets...
Fire Tripper, Hellsing, Magic Knight Rayearth, Wild 7, My Hero Academia
If Futurama Was An 80s Anime | ANIME BONANZA Vol. 1
Welcome to the first edition of Anime Bonanza! Where we flip through the channels and take a look at some interesting or obscure anime series from the 80s.…
Kinnikuman II-Sei: Ultimate Muscle 1 & 2: "I Believe in Your Love", But Only if You "Trust Yourself"
On September 14, 2022, three days after Episode 36 of Toei's Kinnikuman II-Sei TV anime aired in Japan, 4Kids debuted its English adaptatio...
Kinnikuman II-Sei Part 2: Go! (Go!) Go! (Go!)... FIGHT!
Previously on the Kinnikuman II-Sei Review: "The first half of the TV anime adaptation of Kinnikuman II-Sei does admittedly have a bit of ...
Kinnikuman II-Sei Part 1: Let the Generation "Get You"!
In mid-1998, following a 5-part "Legendary Prologue" from mid-1997 to the start of 1998, the mangaka duo called Yudetamago debuted Kinnikuma...
Kinnikuman II-Sei "Double Feature": A Beef Bowl for All Ages
Meeting for the first time in 4th grade, Takashi Shimada & Yoshinori Nakai became fast friends and after finishing up middle school they sta...
Futari wa Pretty Cure Episode 4: Interstellar
Episode four of Futari wa Pretty Cure was directed and storyboarded by Akinori Yabe and written by Higashi Shimizu. This was the first Pretty Cure episode worked on…
Kaitei 3-man Mile
Toei Douga pioneered the feature-length theatrical cartoon in Japan, starting with 1958's Hakujaden . Orphan has released several Toei featu...
Lupin III, The Little Norse Prince, The Green Cat, Triton of the Sea, Dororo
Shounen Isn't For Me
Or is it? It's been bugging me so allow me to talk about why some of the ways in which people praise the things they like doesn't sit…
Hunter x Hunter, Kinnikuman, Naruto, Bakemonogatari, Chainsaw Man
How Incineroar in Smash Bros. Embodies Japanese Pro Wrestling
Incineroar is one of my favorite characters to play in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He’s the first truly traditional grappler character in the franchise, and his entire moveset…
MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-tachi
Here's a wonderful example of the "wide-screen baroque" school of anime science fiction, the 1987 movie MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-t...
Rain Boy v2
One of Orphan's earliest Tezuka Osamu projects was the set of six OVAs known as the Lion Books: 1 The Green Cat 1983 2 Rain Boy 1983 3…
Fire Emblem, GeGeGe no Kitaro, Chinpui, A Time Slip of 10000 Years: Prime Rose, Fireball
Ohoshi-sama no Rail
I'm not sure how I feel about the 1993 movie Ohoshi-sama no Rail ( Rail of Stars ). Based on a 1983 autobiographical novel by Kobayashi Chi...
The Golden Bird, Nine, Stop!! Hibari-kun!, High Speed Jessie, Kinnikuman
Futari wa Pretty Cure Episode Two: Citizen Honoka
The second episode of Futari wa Precure aired on February 8, 2004. The script was written by Ryo Kawasaki, who also wrote the previous episode, and it was…
Elf 17
Orphan's projects get started for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes, a raw intrigues one of the translators. Sometimes, an orphaned series ge...
Year 1 Issue 23
Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 23 June 3 - 9, 2020 Welcome back to Arcadia Dragnet! Yup, we're way…
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Wave, Listen to Me!, Big Windup!, Tower of God