Re:Monster (novel/manga/anime)

Re:Monster is a Japanese light novel series written by Kogitsune Kanekiru and illustrated by Yamaada. It was serialized online between May 2011 and 2018 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was later acquired by AlphaPolis, who have published nine main volumes, a side story volume and an extra volume between August 2012 and August 2017. A manga adaptation…

Again!! (manga/TV drama)

Again!! (Japanese: アゲイン!!, Hepburn: Agein!!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsurō Kubo. It was serialized in 2011 in Weekly Shōnen Magazine published by Kodansha until reaching its conclusion in 2014. It was adapted into a Japanese television drama series in the summer of 2014. Synopsis Kin’ichirō Imamura, a high school senior, prepares to graduate with no friends and having never participated in extracurricular activities. An accident…

Fate/Extra (video game/manga/anime)

Fate/Extra (stylized as Fate/EXTRA) is a dungeon crawler role-playing game developed by Type-Moon and Imageepoch and published by Marvelous Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. The game takes place in a parallel universe to the visual novel Fate/stay night. It was released in Japan on July 22, 2010. Aksys Games localized the game for North America and released it on November 21, 2011. Three editions of the game were released in North America: a…

Tank Chair (manga)

Tank Chair (戦車椅子-TANK CHAIR-, Sensha Isu -Tanku Cheā-) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Manabu Yashiro. It began serialization on Kodansha‘s Magazine Pocket website and app in November 2022. Publication Written and illustrated by Manabu Yashiro, Tank Chair began serialization on Kodansha‘s Magazine Pocket website and app on November 5, 2022. Its chapters have been collected into six tankōbon volumes as of May 2024. During their panel at New…

Saint Tail (manga/anime)

Saint Tail (怪盗セイント・テール, Kaitō Seinto Tēru, Mysterious Thief Saint Tail) is a manga and anime series. Based on a seven-volume manga by Megumi Tachikawa, the story was adapted into an anime television series by producer TMS-Kyokuichi, broadcast by ABC. Tokyopop translated the manga series, and subtitled and partially dubbed the anime series. The Tokyopop book summary states that it is “Robin Hood meets Sailor Moon!” Plot Main article: List of Saint Tail characters…

Re-Kan! (manga/anime)

Re-Kan! (レーカン!, Rēkan!, lit. “Sixth Sense!”) is a Japanese four-panel manga series by Hinako Seta, serialized in Houbunsha‘s Manga Time Jumbo magazine. Re-Kan! was first published as a one-shot in Manga Time Jumbo‘s December 2009 issue, and it later began serialization with the February 2010 issue. It has been collected into twelve tankōbon volumes. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation by Pierrot+ aired in Japan between April and June 2015. Overview High school girl Hibiki Amami has…

Element Hunters (manga/anime/video game)

Element Hunters (エレメントハンター, Eremento Hantā, Korean: 엘리먼트 헌터; RR: Elimeonteu Heonteo) is a 2009 Japanese-Korean anime series that began airing in Japan and South Korea as a science-fiction adventure to generate more awareness in chemistry and other sciences. The series is set in the year 2029. A manga series began at the same time, and has continued even after the anime ended in 2010, and the manga still continues until August 2010. Bandai Namco has…

Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God (manga/anime/video game)

Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God (超獣機神ダンクーガ, Chōjū Kishin Dankūga) is a Super Robot anime television series produced by Ashi Productions, directed by Seiji Okuda and written by Keisuke Fujikawa. It ran on TBS for 38 episodes from 5 April 1985 to 27 December 1985. The TV anime was licensed by Central Park Media under their Software Sculptors label in 1995, and was released on subtitled…

888 (manga)

888 (Japanese: スリーエイト, Hepburn: Surii Eito), or Three Eight, is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Noriko Kuwata. Story The newly opened Suehiro Detective Agency is composed of laid-back manager Hisago, dog-loving chief investigator Shimeki and administrator Tsukumo. With very few paying customers, the three protagonists are free to spend their time bickering with and teasing one another,…

Versus (2022 manga)

Versus (Japanese: バーサス, Hepburn: Bāsasu) is a Japanese manga series written by One, illustrated by Kyōtarō Azuma [ja], and composed by Bose. It has been serialized in Kodansha‘s shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius since November 2022. Publication Written by One, illustrated by Kyōtarō Azuma [ja], and composed by Bose, Versus started in Kodansha‘s shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius on November 26, 2022. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on April 7, 2023. As of May 9,…

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (manga/video games)

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas – The Myth of Hades (Japanese: 聖闘士星矢セイントセイヤ The Lost Canvas 冥王神話, Hepburn: Seinto Seiya Za Rosuto Kyanbasu – Meiō Shinwa), also known as simply The Lost Canvas, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shiori Teshirogi. It is a spin-off based on the manga series Saint Seiya, which was created, written and illustrated by Japanese author Masami Kurumada. The Lost Canvas was…

Okama Report (manga/anime)

Okama Report (Japanese: おカマ白書, Hepburn: Okama Hakusho, lit. “Gay Report”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Yamamoto. The series follows Shinya Okama, a straight college student who works at an okama bar (a cross-dressing gay bar). Okama Report was serialized in the manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from 1989 to 1991, and was adapted into a three-part original video animation (OVA) from 1991 to 1992. Synopsis[edit] While drunk at a party, college…