M3: The Dark Metal (M3〜ソノ黒キ鋼〜, Emu Surī: Sono Kuroki Hagane; lit. “M3: That Black Steel”) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Satelight. It aired from April 21, 2014, to October 1, 2014. It is directed by Junichi Sato, written by Mari Okada and has mecha designs by Shōji Kawamori. A manga adaptation with art by Kazuomi Minatogawa was serialized in Mag Garden‘s shōnen manga magazine Monthly Comic Blade from April 30, 2014,…
Nagai Yume (長い夢; lit. “Long Dream”) is a short story by manga author Junji Ito, originally included in The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection. A one-hour Japanese television drama adaptation was broadcast in 2000. The adaptation was directed by Higuchinsky, whose film adaptation of Ito’s Uzumaki had been released earlier the same year. The story was also adapted in the second segment of the second episode of the anime Junji…
GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class (Japanese: GA 芸術科アートデザインクラス, Hepburn: GA Geijutsuka Āto Dezain Kurasu; Also written “GA Art Department Art Design Class”) is a Japanese seinen yonkoma manga series by Satoko Kiyuzuki. The series was serialized in Heiwa Shuppan‘s moe four-panel manga magazine Comic Gyutto! from its first issue on July 23, 2004, to its last issue (the third issue). Afterwards a one-shot manga appeared in the August 2005 issue of Houbunsha‘s…
Earthchild (Japanese: 地球の子, Hepburn: Chikyū no Ko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Shinkai. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from February to September 2022; as of October 2022, its chapters have been collected into three tankōbon volumes. Publication Written and illustrated by Hideo Shinkai, the series was serialized in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from February 21 to September 5, 2022. As of…
Fafner in the Azure (Japanese: 蒼穹のファフナー, Hepburn: Sōkyū no Fafunā) is a Japanese mecha anime franchise created by Xebec in collaboration with Starchild Records. The story focuses on a group of children who pilot the titular Fafners in an escalating war against giant aliens called Festum. The first series, subtitled Dead Aggressor, is directed by Nobuyoshi Habara and written by Yasuo Yamabe and Tow Ubukata with character designs from Hisashi…
RahXephon (Japanese: ラーゼフォン, Hepburn: Rāzefon) is a Japanese anime television series created and directed by Yutaka Izubuchi. The series follows 17-year-old Ayato Kamina, his ability to control a mecha known as the RahXephon, and his inner journey to find a place in the world. His life as a student and artist in Tokyo is suddenly interrupted by a mysterious stalker, strange planes invading the city and…
Saber Marionette J (Japanese: セイバーマリオネットJ, Hepburn: Seibā Marionetto Jei) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Studio Junio. aired on TV Tokyo from October 1, 1996, to March 25, 1997. It is the first installment of the Saber Marionette franchise. The show was localized in North America by Ocean Productions and into six other languages by various companies. In between production, Saber Marionette J spun off into other media. A manga…
Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo (Japanese: 薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿; lit. “Ryōko Yakushiji’s Strange Case Files”), known in English as Ryoko’s Case File, is a Japanese novel series written by Yoshiki Tanaka and illustrated by Narumi Kakinouchi. It was adapted into manga and an anime television series, two drama CDs had also been released prior to the anime adaptation with different voice actors. Plot The series is centered on an…
Z: Zed (Ｚ～ゼット～) is a Japanese zombie horror manga series created by Koji Aihara. It’s serialized in Bessatsu Manga Goraku magazine by Nihon Bungeisha. The first volume was published in April 2013. It was adapted into a live action film in 2014 directed by Norio Tsuruta. Film cast Mayu Kawamoto Noriko Kijima Miharu Tanaka References Ｚ～ゼット～ （１）. www.nihonbungeisha.co.jp (in Japanese). Nihon Bungeisha. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2014. “Ring 0/Orochi’s…
The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls (Japanese: Y十Mワイ じゅう エム ～柳生忍法帖～, Hepburn: Y- Jyu -M – Yagyū Ninpōchō) is a Japanese manga series by Masaki Segawa, an adaptation of a novel Yagyū Ninpōchō by Futaro Yamada. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from May 2005 to June 2008, with its chapters collected in eleven tankōbon volumes. Like the author’s previous title Basilisk, The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls is based on a novel from Yamada’s Ninpōchō series and can…
K (also called K Project) is a Japanese anime series created by the animation studio GoHands and GoRA, a group consisting of seven anonymous authors known as Kōhei Azano, Tatsuki Miyazawa, Yukako Kabei, Yashichiro Takahashi, Hideyuki Furuhashi, Suzu Suzuki, and Rei Rairaku. The series is directed by Shingo Suzuki, who also serves as its character designer. It began airing on MBS on October 5,…
Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None is a Japanese light novel series written by Itsuki Togami and illustrated by Yuri Kisaragi. It originally began as a web novel series on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in February 2021. Kodansha later began publishing it in print under its Kodansha Ranobe Books imprint in September 2021; nine volumes have been released as of October 2025. A manga adaptation…
