Zipang (manga/anime/game)

Zipang (Japanese: ジパング, Hepburn: Jipangu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kaiji Kawaguchi. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Morning from 2000 to 2009, with its chapters collected in forty-three tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of the members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force who are transported back in time more than 60 years to 1942. A twenty-six episode anime television series by Studio Deen and directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi was broadcast on TBS from…

Yakuza Girl – Blade Shikake no Hanayome (manga)

Yakuza Girl – Blade Shikake no Hanayome (ヤクザガール 〜ブレイド仕掛けの花嫁〜, Yakuza Girl – The Blade Wielding Bride) is a manga written by Masaki Motonaga and drawn by Yu-Go Okuma. It started in February 2008. The manga is the second work in Motonaga’s Yakuza Girl series, after the light novel Yakuza Girl Missile Heart (ヤクザガール・ミサイルハート, Yakuza Gāru Misairu Hāto) from 2006 which has a similar setting. It has been licensed in…

Nabari no Ou (manga)

Nabari no Ou (Japanese: 隠の王, Hepburn: Nabari no Ō, lit. “King of Nabari”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuhki Kamatani. It was serialized in Square Enix‘s shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy from May 2004 to August 2010, with its chapters collected in 14 tankōbon volumes. In North America, it was licensed for English release by Yen Press. A 26-episode anime television series by J.C.Staff was broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo from April to…