Great Teacher Onizuka, officially abbreviated as GTO, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from January 1997 to February 2002, with its chapters compiled into twenty-five tankōbon volumes. The story focuses on 22-year-old ex-bōsōzoku member Eikichi Onizuka, who becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. It…
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (Japanese: 食戟のソーマ, Hepburn: Shokugeki no Sōma, lit. “Sōma of the Shokugeki”) is a Japanese manga and anime series written by Yūto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki. The series follows a restaurant chef who enrolls in an elite culinary school with a low graduation percentage. Yuki Morisaki also works as a contributor, providing the recipes for the series. It was serialized…
Farewell, My Dear Cramer (さよなら私のクラマー, Sayonara Watashi no Kuramā) is a Japanese manga series by Naoshi Arakawa about women’s association football. The manga serves as a sequel to Arakawa’s 2009 work, Sayonara, Football. The series has been serialized in Kodansha‘s Monthly Shōnen Magazine since May 2016 and has been collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes. The series is published in print and in digital in North America by Kodansha Comics. An anime television…
Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga (サルでも描けるまんが教室, Saru demo egakeru manga kyōshitsu) is a parody instructional book by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma. Publication history In Japan, the series was originally serialized in Shogakukan‘s Big Comic Spirits. Shogakukan later published the manga’s three tankōbon volumes between October 1990 and May 1992. In the US, the series was serialized in Viz Media‘s Pulp from May 2001 to August 2002….
Dai-Tōkyō Binbō Seikatsu Manual (大東京ビンボー生活マニュアル, Dai-Tōkyō Binbō Seikatsu Manyuaru) is a Japanese manga by Maekawa Tsukasa, originally published in the mid-1980s. The title roughly translates to “Greater Tokyo Poverty Living Manual”, and is an apt description of the comic‘s premise. The story The protagonist of Dai-Tokyo is Kōsuke, a college graduate who decides to live a simple ‘no frills’ lifestyle on little money in…
A Certain Scientific Railgun: Astral Buddy (Japanese: とある科学の超電磁砲レールガン アストラル・バディ, Hepburn: Toaru Kagaku no Rērugan: Asutoraru Badi), often shortened to Astral Buddy, is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Yasuhito Nogi, which was serialized by ASCII Media Works through their monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh from April 2017 to July 2020. The manga is a spin-off of A Certain Scientific Railgun series, focusing on a Tokiwadai Middle School student named Junko Hokaze and…
Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious (Japanese: この勇者が俺TUEEEくせに慎重すぎる, Hepburn: Kono Yūsha ga Ore Tsuē Kuse ni Shinchō Sugiru) is a Japanese light novel series written by Light Tuchihi and illustrated by Saori Toyota. It began serialization online in June 2016 on the Kadokawa‘s novel publishing website Kakuyomu. It was then acquired by Fujimi Shobo, who published the first light novel volume…
The Candidate for Goddess (Japanese: 女神候補生, Hepburn: Megami Kōhosei, lit. “Goddess Cadet”) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yukiru Sugisaki. The series takes place in the distant future, where human beings live among space colonies and a single, inhabitable planet called Zion. The plot follows Zero Enna and his fellow candidates as they try to prove themselves worthy of piloting the “Ingrids”, also called “Goddesses”. These gigantic,…
Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside (真の仲間じゃないと勇者のパーティーを追い出されたので、辺境でスローライフすることにしました, Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yūsha no Pātī o Oidasareta no de, Henkyō de Surō Raifu Suru Koto ni Shimashita) is a Japanese light novel series written by Zappon and illustrated by Yasumo. It began serialization online in October 2017 on the user-generated…
Babel (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Narumi Shigematsu. Babel was first published as a tankōbon volume by Shogakukan in April 2012 and was later serialized in the publisher’s seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki from May 2012 to September 2014, when the magazine ceased its publication, and the series continued and finished with its fifth volume. Publication Written and illustrated by Narumi…
B-Daman Crossfire, known in Japan as Cross Fight B-Daman (クロスファイト ビーダマン), is the first B-Daman anime of the Cross Fight series and the seventh B-Daman anime series, overall. Premiering on October 2, 2011 in Japan, it became the first B-Daman anime to air in almost five years, and first to be produced in 16:9 widescreen, following the finale of Crash…
Ace of Diamond (Japanese: ダイヤのAエース, Hepburn: Daiya no Ēsu) is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Terajima. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 2006 to January 2015. A sequel titled Ace of Diamond Act II started in August 2015. An anime television series adaptation ran from October 2013 to March 2016. An anime adaptation of Ace of Diamond Act II aired from April 2019 to…
