Rakudai Ninja Rantarō (Japanese: 落第忍者乱太郎, lit. “Failure Ninja Rantarō”) (generally abbreviated as Rakuran) is a comedy ninja manga series created by Sōbē Amako in 1986. The anime adaptation, Nintama Rantarō, began broadcasting on NHK in 1993 and a side-story anime film Eiga Nintama Rantarō premiered in 1996. Several Nintama Rantarō video games were also published since 1995. Plot The series is set near the end of the Muromachi period. It is during…
Para Para Days (Japanese: パラパラデイズ, Hepburn: Para Para Deizu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yumi Unita. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Comic Spirits from October 2014 to February 2021. Publication Written and illustrated by Yumi Unita, Para Para Days was serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Comic Spirits from October 27, 2014, to February 26, 2021. Shogakukan collected its chapters in three tankōbon volumes, released from May 12, 2017, to…
Ohikkoshi (おひっこし) is a Japanese manga anthology of Hiroaki Samura‘s romantic comedy works published in English by Dark Horse Manga. It collects the five-part series “Ohikkoshi” along with the one-shots “Luncheon of Tears Diary (Vagabond Shōjo Manga-Ka)” and “Kyoto Super Barhopping Journal (Bloodbath at Midorogaike)”. External links[edit] The Comics Journal review[dead link] Ohikkoshi (manga) at Anime News Network‘s encyclopedia Ohikkoshi The cover of Ohikkoshi おひっこし Genre…
Nanako SOS (ななこSOS, Nanako Esu-ou-esu) is a seinen manga series created by Hideo Azuma which ran in Popcorn and Just Comic (both published by Kobunsha) from April 1980 to July 1986. The series was adapted into 39-episode anime television series produced by Kokusai Eiga-sha which aired on the Fuji Television network from April 2, 1983 to December 24, 1983. Azuma created additional manga stories which ran in Azuma Magazine from July 2001 to July 2004….
Maestro (マエストロ, Maesutoro) is a Japanese music slice of life seinen manga series written and illustrated by Akira Sasō. It was published by Futabasha, with serialization from 2003 to 2007, first on the manga magazine Manga Action and later on the website Futabasha Web Magazine. It was compiled in three volumes published between 2004 and 2008. It was adapted into a live action drama film titled Maestro!, directed by Shōtarō Kobayashi and released on…
Laid-Back Camp (Japanese: ゆるキャン△, Hepburn: Yurukyan), also known in Japan as Yuru Camp, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Afro. Set in and around Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, the series chronicles the adventures of Rin Shima, Nadeshiko Kagamihara, and their friends as they travel to various campsites across the country. The manga was first serialized in Houbunsha‘s Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine from July…
The Kagerou Project (カゲロウプロジェクト, Kagerō Purojekuto, lit. “Heat Haze Project”), also known as “Kagerou Daze” (カゲロウデイズ, Kagerō Deizu, lit. “Heat Haze Daze”) or “Kagerou Days”, is a Japanese mixed-media project. It started as a Vocaloid song series created by Jin (Shizen no Teki-P) (じん(自然の敵P)). The story revolves around the Mekakushi Dan, a group of young people with unusual eye-related powers. The franchise became infamous…
Jingai-san no Yome (人外さんの嫁, lit. “Non-Human Creature’s Wife”) is a Japanese four-panel manga series written by Yu Aikawa and illustrated by Akiwo Yasaka, serialized online via Ichijinsha‘s Zero-Sum Online website since June 2016. It has been collected in twelve tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Saetta premiered from October 2 to December 18, 2018. Plot Tomari Hinowa is a normal high school boy,…
I Love You, My Teacher (Japanese: 先生、好きです。, Hepburn: Sensei, Suki Desu) is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Kouji Miura. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from December 2017 to June 2018, before moving to the Magazine Pocket website where it ran from June to August of that same year. Its 33 chapters were collected in four tankōbon volumes. Plot Yūki Higuchi is a teacher…
Hakubo no Chronicle (白暮のクロニクル) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from August 2013 to May 2017. Publication Hakubo no Chronicle is written and illustrated by Masami Yuki. The series ran in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from August 26, 2013 to May 29, 2017. Shogakukan collected its chapters in eleven tankōbon volumes, released from March 30, 2014…
Gaku: Minna no Yama (岳 みんなの山, lit. “Peak: Everyone’s Mountain”) is a Japanese mountaineering manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Ishizuka. It was serialized by Shogakukan in the seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original from September 2003 to June 2012, with its chapters collected in eighteen tankōbon volumes. It depicts the adventures of a volunteer with an alpine search and rescue team in the Japanese Alps. Gaku: Minna no Yama received the…
Fake (フェイク, Feiku) is a seven-volume BL manga by Sanami Matoh. The story focuses in a romance between Randy “Ryo” Maclean and Dee Laytner, two New York City detectives from the fictitious 27th precinct. An anime version of the fifth act (or chapter) from the second manga is also available, in the form of an OVA. Fake was first published as seven volumes by Biblos, but after the company went…
