Captain Harlock: Dimensional Voyage (manga)

Captain Harlock: Dimensional Voyage (Japanese: キャプテンハーロック~次元航海~, Hepburn: Captain Harlock ~Jigen Kōkai~) is a manga series written by Leiji Matsumoto and illustrated by Kōichi Shimahoshi. The series was launched on August 2014 in the pages of Akita Shoten‘s Champion Red magazine, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Matsumoto’s debut. The series is a retelling of the original 1978 Space Pirate Captain Harlock manga, with some significative plot differences,…

The Candidate for Goddess (manga)

The Candidate for Goddess (Japanese: 女神候補生, Hepburn: Megami Kōhosei, lit. “Goddess Cadet”) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yukiru Sugisaki. The series takes place in the distant future, where human beings live among space colonies and a single, inhabitable planet called Zion. The plot follows Zero Enna and his fellow candidates as they try to prove themselves worthy of piloting the “Ingrids”, also called “Goddesses”. These gigantic,…

Cagaster of an Insect Cage (manga)

Cagaster of an Insect Cage (Japanese: 虫籠のカガステル, Hepburn: Mushikago no Kagasuteru) is a Japanese manga series by Kachō Hashimoto released from 2015 to 2016 in the serialized magazine Monthly Comic Ryū. Prior to becoming a manga series, Cagaster of an Insect Cage was first a dōjinshi series posted on Hashimoto’s website, which was published from 2005 to 2013. The series was adapted into an original net anime series produced by Studio…

Banished from the Hero’s Party (manga)

Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside (真の仲間じゃないと勇者のパーティーを追い出されたので、辺境でスローライフすることにしました, Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yūsha no Pātī o Oidasareta no de, Henkyō de Surō Raifu Suru Koto ni Shimashita) is a Japanese light novel series written by Zappon and illustrated by Yasumo. It began serialization online in October 2017 on the user-generated…

Babel (2012 manga)

Babel (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Narumi Shigematsu. Babel was first published as a tankōbon volume by Shogakukan in April 2012 and was later serialized in the publisher’s seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki from May 2012 to September 2014, when the magazine ceased its publication, and the series continued and finished with its fifth volume. Publication Written and illustrated by Narumi…

B-Daman Crossfire (manga)

B-Daman Crossfire, known in Japan as Cross Fight B-Daman (クロスファイト ビーダマン), is the first B-Daman anime of the Cross Fight series and the seventh B-Daman anime series, overall. Premiering on October 2, 2011 in Japan, it became the first B-Daman anime to air in almost five years, and first to be produced in 16:9 widescreen, following the finale of Crash…

Ace of Diamond (manga/anime)

Ace of Diamond (Japanese: ダイヤのA, Hepburn: Daiya no Ēsu) is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Terajima. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 2006 to January 2015, with its chapters collected in 47 tankōbon volumes. A sequel titled Ace of Diamond Act II was serialized from August 2015 to October 2022, with its chapters collected in 34 tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation ran from October…

2001 Nights (manga)

2001 Nights (2001夜物語, Nisen’ichi Ya Monogatari) is a science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Yukinobu Hoshino and originally serialized in Futabasha‘s Monthly Super Action starting from June 1984. It was then collected into three bound volumes by Futabasha, released between August 18, 1985 and October 24, 1986.[2] The series was licensed for an English-language release by Viz Media and published in North America starting in 1990. 2001 Nights is largely inspired by…

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You (manga/anime)

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, often referred to simply as The 100 Girlfriends, is a Japanese harem and romantic comedy manga series written by Rikito Nakamura and illustrated by Yukiko Nozawa. It has been serialized in Shueisha‘s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump since December 2019, with its chapters collected into nine individual tankōbon volumes as of March 2022. The manga has been licensed for…

The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me? (manga)

The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me? (Japanese: 八男って、 それはないでしょう!, Hepburn: Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshō!) is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Y.A. and illustrated by Fuzichoco. It was serialized online between June 2013 and March 2017 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was acquired by Media Factory, who published the first light novel volume in…

Zero In (manga)

Zero In (ゼロイン), also romanized as Zeroin, is a Japanese manga series released in 2004 by Sora Inoue, serialized in Monthly Dragon Age magazine, and published in Japan by Kadokowa Comics Dragon Junior. It is published in French by Pika Edition, in German by Egmont Manga & Anime, in South Korea by Haksan Publishing, and in Italy by Flashbook Edizioni. Story In the near future, the Japanese National Police Agency covertly establishes…

Zombie Land Saga (manga)

Zombie Land Saga (Japanese: ゾンビランドサガ, Hepburn: Zonbi Rando Saga) is an anime television series produced by MAPPA, Avex Pictures and Cygames. The series aired in Japan between October and December 2018. A second season titled Zombie Land Saga Revenge aired between April and June 2021. An anime film project has been announced. A manga adaptation that loosely follows the events of the anime, began serialization on Cygames’ Cycomi website in…