Baby & Me (manga/anime)

Baby & Me (Japanese: 赤ちゃんと僕, Hepburn: Aka-chan to Boku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Marimo Ragawa. It was published in Hakusensha‘s magazine Hana to Yume from 1991 to 1997. In North America, it was published by Viz Media. The series was adapted into an anime television series in 1996. As of November 2021, the manga had over 17.7 million copies in circulation. In 1995, Baby &…

The Abashiri Family (manga/anime/movie)

Abashiri Ikka (あばしり一家, known in the United States as The Abashiri Family) is a Japanese manga series created by Go Nagai that originally ran in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion. Some of its characters returned with different names as part of other series, such as Cutie Honey, UFO Robot Grendizer and Mazinger Angels Z among others. Some of the first stories were adapted into an original video animation by Studio Pierrot in 1991,…

009-1 (manga/anime)

009-1 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shotaro Ishinomori. The manga was serialized in the Futabasha publication Weekly Manga Action from 1967 to 1970, then returned briefly in 1974. The story concerns Miléne Hoffman (“Mylene” in the English translation), a female cyborg who works as a secret agent. The Japanese title of the manga was 009ノ1, or “Zero Zero Ku-no-ichi”, a…

Ogami-san Can’t Keep It In (manga)

Ogami-san Can’t Keep It In (Japanese: 大上さん、だだ漏れです。, Hepburn: Ōgami-san, Dadamore desu.) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yu Yoshidamaru. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from October 2016 to November 2019, with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes. Publication Written and illustrated by Yu Yoshidamaru, Ogami-san Can’t Keep It In was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from October 25, 2016, to November 25, 2019. Kodansha collected its chapters in seven tankōbon volumes,…

Nameless Asterism (manga)

Nameless Asterism (Japanese: ななしのアステリズム, Hepburn: Nanashi no Asterism) is a Japanese yuri manga written and illustrated by Kina Kobayashi. It was serialized online via Square Enix‘s Gangan Online website from 2015 to 2017, and is licensed for English-language release by Seven Seas Entertainment. Synopsis Tsukasa, Nadeshiko, and Mikage have been best friends since they began junior high, however Tsukasa she’s been keeping secret for almost a year;…

Made in Abyss (manga/anime/game)

Made in Abyss (Japanese: メイドインアビス, Hepburn: Meido in Abisu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihito Tsukushi. It has been serialized online in Takeshobo‘s digital publication Web Comic Gamma since October 2012, and has been collected into 11 tankōbon volumes. The story follows an orphaned girl named Riko, who finds and befriends a part-robot boy named Reg, and descends with him into the titular “Abyss”…

Lady Love (manga)

Lady Love is a Japanese manga series by Hiromu Ono. It won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga in 1984. Publication Lady Love was serialized in the publisher Kodansha‘s magazine Bessatsu Friend between 1981 and 1984. Eight collected volumes were originally published by Kodansha between September 1981 and February 1985. An artbook was released on November 14, 1984. The series was republished twice; first into eight shinsōban between July 8, 1994, and…

Kagaku na Yatsura (manga/anime)

Kagaku na Yatsura (カガクなヤツら, “Scientific Guys”) is a manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Yoshikawa. There was an OVA adaptation released along with the fourth volume, animated by Hoods Entertainment and directed by Hiraku Kaneko. Characters Haruki Komaba (駒場 遥希, Haruki Komaba) Voiced by: Junji Majima Haruki is high school boy with two eccentric girl friends. He gets involved in ecchi troubles caused by the…

Jigyaku no Uta (manga)

Jigyaku no Uta (自虐の詩, lit. “Self-torture Song”) is a Japanese manga series by Yoshiie Gouda. The series was adapted by Yukihiko Tsutsumi into a film, known in Japan under the same title and in the United States as Happily Ever After. Viz Pictures licensed the film for release in the United States. The series follows husband and wife Isao Hayama (葉山 イサオ, Hayama Isao) and Yukie Morita (森田 幸江, Morita Yukie). Yukie…

I Had That Same Dream Again (manga/novel)

I Had That Same Dream Again (Japanese: また、同じ夢を見ていた, Hepburn: Mata, Onaji Yume o Mite Ita) is a Japanese novel written by Yoru Sumino and illustrated by loundraw. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Idumi Kirihara, was serialized in Futabasha‘s Monthly Action from September 2017 to August 2018. Novel The novel is written by Yoru Sumino and illustrated by loundraw. Futabasha published the volume on February 19, 2016. On October 23, 2019, Seven Seas Entertainment announced they licensed…

Gag Manga Biyori (manga/anime)

Masuda Kōsuke Gekijō: Gag Manga Biyori (Japanese: 増田こうすけ劇場 ギャグマンガ日和, Hepburn: Masuda Kōsuke Gekijō Gyagu Manga Biyori, “Kosuke Masuda Theater: Good Day for Gag Manga”), or simply known as Gag Manga Biyori, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kosuke Masuda. It started in Shueisha‘s shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump in the January 2000 issue. The magazine ceased publication in June 2007, and the series was…

Fairy Gone (manga/anime)

Fairy Gone (stylized as Fairy gone) is a Japanese anime television series produced by P.A. Works that aired from April to December 2019. Plot In the aftermath of the War of Unification, all the nations of the continent of Eastald are forcefully united under a single ruler. During the war, special soldiers were implanted with Fairy organs, allowing them to summon…