Canaan is a 13-episode anime television series, conceptualized by Type-Moon co-founders Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi, based on the scenario that they created for the Wii visual novel 428: Shibuya Scramble, which is noted for being one of the few games to have been awarded a perfect score by games publication Famitsu. The series spawned manga and light novel adaptations. Taking place two years after the events of 428:…
Baby Pop (ベイビーポップ, Beibii Poppu) is a shōjo manga series created by Yayoi Ogawa. It is licensed in French by Kurokawa. Plot Nagisa has lived with her mother ever since her parents divorced in her childhood. One day her mother is killed in an accident, so now she has to live with her stepfather, Ryunosuke. But he is so nuts that…
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. (Japanese: ACCA 13区監察課, Hepburn: Akka: Jusan-ku Kansatsu-ka) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Natsume Ono. It was serialized in Square Enix‘s Monthly Big Gangan magazine from June 2013 to October 2016, and has been compiled in six tankōbon volumes as of December 2016. An anime television series adaptation by Madhouse aired between January 10, 2017 and March 28, 2017. Story Setting See also: List of ACCA:…
12 Beast (Japanese: トゥエルヴビースト, Hepburn: Tueruvu Bīsuto) is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Okayado. The series is published by Fujimi Shobo in Japan, and by Seven Seas Entertainment in the United States. On September 6, 2020, Okayado announced the manga has been canceled due to multiple reasons. Summary Touga Eita is a high school student and video-game otaku. He is the heir to the…
Zetman (stylized as ZETMAN) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Katsura. The series started as a 49-page one-shot in the 1994 Autumn Special of Shueisha‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. A more mature and full-fledged series ran in Shueisha’s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 2002 to 2014. A 13-episode anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment was broadcast in Japan from April to June 2012. In North America, the…
Yama Onna Kabe Onna (山おんな壁おんな, roughly meaning “mountain woman, wall woman”) is a Japanese manga series by Atsuko Takakura serialized in the seinen manga magazine Evening, published by Kodansha. A Japanese television drama adaptation aired on Fuji Television channels. The manga did not sell well until the television series began. Working at a department store, Megumi Aoyagi (wall woman) is a career woman who is popular at…
Wandance (Japanese: ワンダンス, Hepburn: Wandansu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Coffee. It has been serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon since January 2019, with its chapters collected in 10 tankōbon volumes as of October 2022. In North America, the manga is licensed for English release by Kodansha USA. Publication Written and illustrated by Coffee, Wandance started in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon on January 25, 2019. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes….
Vampire’s Portrait (吸血鬼の肖像, Kyūketsuki no Shōzō) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hiroki Kusumoto. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the manga’s first tankōbon volume through its imprint, Juné, on October 7, 2008. The second volume is due to be released on December 2, 2009. Oakla Publishing released the manga’s two tankōbon volume between March 13, 2007, and January 12, 2008….
Ultra B (ウルトラB, Urutora Bi) is a manga series by Fujiko A. Fujio (Motoo Abiko) that first made its debut in Chuokoron-Shinsha‘s Fujiko Fujio Land series of tankōbon books in 1984 and was released in individual tankōbon until 1989. In 1987, the manga was adapted into a 120-episode anime of the same name by Shin-Ei Animation which aired on TV Asahi from 4 April 1987 to 27 March 1989. It is…
Takt Op (Japanese: タクトオーパス, Hepburn: Takuto Ōpasu, stylized as takt op. or {tákt: op.}) is a mixed-media project about classical music produced by Bandai Namco Arts and DeNA. An anime television series by MAPPA and Madhouse titled Takt Op. Destiny aired from October to December 2021. A mobile game developed by Game Studio titled Takt Op. Symphony will be released in June 2023. Plot Takt Op is set in the year 2047, a future world where music cannot be played freely because it…
The Saga of Tanya the Evil, known in Japan as Yōjo Senki (幼女戦記, lit. “The Military Chronicles of a Little Girl”), is a Japanese light novel series written by Carlo Zen and illustrated by Shinobu Shinotsuki. It began serialization online in 2010, on the user-generated novel publishing website Arcadia. Enterbrain acquired the series in October 2013 and has published twelve volumes by February 2020. A manga adaptation…
Rainy Cocoa (雨色ココア, Ameiro Cocoa) is a bilingual Japanese digital manga series. An anime television series based on the manga began airing in April 2015, and a second season, titled Rainy Cocoa, Welcome to Rainy Color (雨色ココア Rainy colorへようこそ！, Ameiro Cocoa Rainy color e Yōkoso!), began airing in October 2015. A third season, titled Rainy Cocoa in Hawaii (雨色ココア in Hawaii, Ameiro Cocoa Rainy color Waikiki), began airing in October…
