Hamatora (ハマトラ, lit. “Yokohama Troubleshooter”) is a Japanese mixed-media project created by Natsu Matsumai and Yūki Kodama. The project began with a manga series written by Yukino Kitajima and Yūki Kodama as the artist, with Yū Wazu adapting the original designs for animation. The manga, Hamatora: The Comic, started serialization in Shueisha‘s Young Jump magazine in November 2013. An anime television series, Hamatora: The Animation, by the…
Gakuen Heaven (Japanese: 学園ヘヴン, Hepburn: Gakuen Hevun, lit. “Academy Heaven”) is a Japanese media franchise originating from the Windows game Gakuen Heaven: Boy’s Love Scramble, originally released by the company SPRAY. The franchise gradually expanded to include more games, drama CDs, manga, and anime. Plot Keita Itō, an average high school boy, is surprised to find out that he’s been accepted into the elite and prestigious boarding school,…
Fallen Moon (堕天の月, Daten no Tsuki) is a stand-alone collection of short stories by manga artist Toui Hasumi. It is published by Blu Manga in America, the shōnen-ai and yaoi publishing division of Tokyopop. Description An angel loses his place in Eden only to find a mysterious and dangerous new patron… A poor painter finishes a woman’s portrait without his subject… Two bounty hunters face mysterious demons in the…
Eiken (エイケン) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Seiji Matsuyama. It was serialized in Akita Shoten‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion from April 2001 to August 2004, with its chapters collected in 18 tankōbon volumes. The story depicts the life of schoolboy Densuke Mifune after he is forced into the mysterious Eiken Club. It was adapted into a two-episode original video animation (OVA) produced by J.C.Staff. Both…
Daily Lives of High School Boys (Japanese: 男子高校生の日常, Hepburn: Danshi Kōkōsei no Nichijō) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasunobu Yamauchi. The manga was serialized in Gangan Online and was released in seven manga volumes between May 21, 2009, and September 27, 2012. A twelve-episode anime series produced by Sunrise aired between January 9 and March 26, 2012. The anime was licensed by NIS…
Candy☆Boy (キャンディ ボーイ, Kyandi Bōi) is an eight-minute original net animation produced by Anime International Company, and directed by Takafumi Hoshikawa. Since November 22, 2007, the ONA is available through streaming on the Cho! animelo audiovisual website and the Nico Nico Douga online video service. This was followed by a seven-episode series, with episodes being streamed between May 2, 2008 and May 8, 2009. Additional episodes were…
Baccano! (Japanese: バッカーノ!, Hepburn: Bakkāno!, Italian for “ruckus”, Italian pronunciation: [bakˈkaːno]) is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Katsumi Enami. The series, often told from multiple points of view, is mostly set within a fictional United States during various time periods, most notably the Prohibition era. It focuses on various people, including alchemists, thieves, thugs, Mafiosi and Camorristi, who are unconnected to one another. After an immortality elixir is recreated…
Ace Attorney, known in Japan as Gyakuten Saiban: Sono “Shinjitsu”, Igiari! (Japanese: 逆転裁判 ～その「真実」、異議あり！～, lit. “Turnabout Trial: I Object to That ‘Truth’!”), is an anime series produced by A-1 Pictures, based on Capcom‘s video game series of the same name. It is directed by Ayumu Watanabe and written by Atsuhiro Tomioka, with Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi serving as a script supervisor. The first season—which adapts the first two games of…
21 Emon (Japanese: 21エモン, Hepburn: Nijūichi Emon) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko Fujio (Fujimoto alone) published from 1968 to 1969 in the Shogakukan magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Set in the same universe as Doraemon, and predating that work by only one year. The manga was then made in a TV anime series by the animation studio Shin-Ei Animation in 1991. From the manga also two…
Zodiac P.I. (Japanese: 十二宮でつかまえて, Hepburn: Jūnikyū de Tsukamaete) is a mystery manga series written and illustrated by Natsumi Ando. Appearing as a serial in the monthly shōjo (targeted towards girls) manga magazine Nakayoshi from the April 2001 issue to the January 2003 issue, the chapters were compiled into four bound volumes by Kodansha and published from November 2001 to March 2003. Set in present-day Japan, the series focuses on Lili Hoshizawa, a teenage detective who…
Yamaguchi-kun Isn’t So Bad (Japanese: 山口くんはワルくない, Hepburn: Yamaguchi-kun wa Warukunai) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuu Saiki. It has been serialized in Kodansha‘s shōjo manga magazine Bessatsu Friend since September 2019. Publication Written and illustrated by Yuu Saiki, Yamaguchi-kun Isn’t So Bad started in Kodansha‘s shōjo manga magazine Bessatsu Friend on September 13, 2019. The manga went on hiatus in June 2022 due to Saiki’s childbirth, and is set to resume on July 13,…
Wandering Sun (さすらいの太陽, Sasurai no Taiyō), also known as Nozomi in the Sun and Jane e Micci on Italy, is a Japanese manga series written by Keisuke Fujikawa and illustrated by Mayumi Suzuki. It also received an anime adaptation by Mushi Productions which ran for 26 episodes in 1971. Both Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yoshikazu Yasuhiko were involved in the production of Wandering Sun, and would later again collaborate on the ground-breaking and genre-defining…
