Z/X (ゼクス, Zekusu), also known as Z/X Zillions of enemy X, is a collectible card game produced by Nippon Ichi Software and Broccoli. It is marketed as the first “free” collectible card game, with a free deck offered to players at card shops and events in Japan. A PlayStation 3 game titled Z/X Zillions of enemy X: Zekkai no Crusade, developed by Nippon Ichi Software and…
xxxHolic (stylized as ×××HOLiC; pronounced “Holic”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp. The series, which crosses over with another Clamp work, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, revolves around Kimihiro Watanuki, a high school student who is disturbed by his ability to see the supernatural, and Yūko Ichihara, a powerful witch who owns a wish-granting shop. When Watanuki asks Ichihara to…
Waccha PriMagi! (ワッチャプリマジ!, Waccha PuriMaji!) is a Japanese arcade game by Takara Tomy Arts. It is the successor to Pretty Rhythm, PriPara, Idol Time PriPara, Kiratto Pri☆Chan and the fourth entry in Takara Tomy’s Pretty Series. Plot “PriMagi”, is a form of entertainment that is created through song, dance, and fashion, where aspiring, up-and-coming idols can performs as a “Primagista”! There is a secret to the magical,…
Vagabond (Japanese: バガボンド, Hepburn: Bagabondo) is a Japanese epic martial arts manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, based on Eiji Yoshikawa‘s novel Musashi. It has been serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Morning since September 1998, with its chapters collected into thirty-seven tankōbon volumes as of July 2014. Viz Media licensed the series for English release in North America and has published…
s-CRY-ed (Japanese: スクライド, Hepburn: Sukuraido), also known as s.CRY.ed or Scryed, is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series which first aired in Japan on TV Tokyo. The series is written by Yōsuke Kuroda, produced by Sunrise, and directed by Gorō Taniguchi, with music composed by Kōtarō Nakagawa. It is set in an alternative time in Kanagawa Prefecture where a phenomenon gave 1% of its people supernatural powers; they are known as…
Radiant is a French comics book series written and illustrated by Tony Valente. It has been published by Ankama since 2013 and has 16 volumes released in French as of April 2022. It was later published by the Japanese publisher Asukashinsha in 2015, making it the first manfra to be published in Japan. The series has been licensed by Viz…
La Blue Girl (淫獣学園 La☆Blue Girl, Injū Gakuen La Blue Girl, roughly “Lewd Beast Academy: The Blue Girl”) is an erotic anime and manga series by Toshio Maeda. Like Maeda’s other hentai series (e.g., Urotsukidōji), La Blue Girl features a large amount of tentacle rape. It departs somewhat from its predecessors, however, by lightening the atmosphere with humor, lightly parodying the “tentacle hentai” genre. An immensely successful series, La…
Jagan wa Gachirin ni Tobu (邪眼は月輪に飛ぶ, lit. “The Wicked Eyes Fly to the Full Moon”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Fujita. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 2006 to 2007, with the chapters collected in a single tankōbon volume. Publication Jagan wa Gachirin ni Tobu is written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Fujita. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Big Comic Spirits from 2006 to 2007. Shogakukan…
I Am a Hero (Japanese: アイアムアヒーロー, Hepburn: Ai Amu A Hīrō) is a Japanese zombie manga series written and illustrated by Kengo Hanazawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from April 2009 to February 2017, with its chapters compiled in twenty-two tankōbon volumes. In North America the manga has been licensed for English language release by Dark Horse Comics. A live action film adaptation premiered at the Sitges Film Festival in October 2015,…
.hack//Quantum is an animated three episode OVA series for the .hack franchise, produced by Kinema Citrus and presented by Bandai Visual. It was initially scheduled to be released in November 2010, but it was later changed. The first episode was released on January 28, 2011 with the following two episodes to be released in one month intervals. Excluding the all-CGI animation movie .hack//G.U….
The Fable (Japanese: ザ・ファブル, Hepburn: Za Faburu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhisa Minami. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from November 2014 to November 2019, with its chapters collected in 22 tankōbon volumes. A live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan in June 2019 and a sequel premiered in June 2021. As of October 2022, the manga had over 20 million copies in…
Earl Cain (Japanese: 伯爵カインシリーズ, Hepburn: Hakushaku Kain Shirīzu), also known as Count Cain, is a gothic shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Earl Cain consists of five parts or “Series”: Forgotten Juliet (忘れられたジュリエット, Wasurerareta Jurietto), The Sound of a Boy Hatching (少年の孵化する音, Shōnen no Fukasuru Oto), Kafka (カフカ, Kafuka), The Seal of the Red Ram (赤い羊の刻印, Akai Hitsuji no Kokuin), and the sequel series Godchild (ゴッド チャイルド, Goddo Chairudo). Debuting in the Japanese manga magazine Bessatsu Hana to Yume in December 1991,…
