Back Street Girls (バックストリートガールズ, Bakku Sutorīto Gāruzu) is a Japanese manga series by Jasmine Gyuh. It is about three yakuza men forced by their boss to become a female idol group. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from March 2015 to September 2018 and was compiled into 12 volumes. The manga is licensed in English by Kodansha USA. A 10-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by J.C.Staff and directed by Chiaki…
100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams is a Japanese puzzle and role-playing smartphone game published by GCrest. It was released on Android and iOS devices in 2015. An original net animation by Satelight was released in 2017. An anime television series adaptation by Project No.9 premiered from July 5 to September 20, 2018. Sentai Filmworks have licensed the anime and are streaming it on Hidive. Plot summary A normal girl is transported to another world,…
Batman: Child of Dreams is a manga series written and illustrated by Kia Asamiya, published in Kodansha‘s Magazine Z. The series follows Batman as he travels to Tokyo on the trail of a lethal drug that allows the person who ingests it to shapeshift into anyone they desire. Child of Dreams was collected in two volumes, released in November 2000 and November…
A Place Further than the Universe (Japanese: 宇宙そらよりも遠い場所, Hepburn: Sora yori mo Tōi Basho) is an anime television series produced by Madhouse. The series is directed by Atsuko Ishizuka, written by Jukki Hanada and features character designs by Takahiro Yoshimatsu. It aired in Japan between January and March 2018 and was co-produced and distributed internationally by Crunchyroll. Plot Mari Tamaki is a second-year high school student who wants to make…
Path of the Assassin (Japanese: 半蔵の門, Hepburn: Hanzō no Mon, lit. “Hanzō’s Teachings”) is a gekiga manga created by the writer Kazuo Koike and the artist Goseki Kojima and published in Weekly Gendai magazine (Kodansha). Unlike their previous collaborations on Lone Wolf and Cub and Samurai Executioner, this story focuses on two historical figures from 16th-century Japan. Path of the Assassin is the story of Hattori Hanzō, the master ninja whose duty it was to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu,…
Pan de Peace! (パンでPeace!, Pan de Pīsu, lit. “Peace Through Bread!”) is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Emily. It has been serialized in Media Factory‘s Comic Cune magazine since August 2014 and the chapters have collected into five tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Asahi Production aired in Japan from April to June 2016. Manga Pan de Peace! is a four-panel manga series by Emily (styled as “emily”),…
Destroy all humankind. They can’t be regenerated. (Japanese: すべての人類を破壊する。それらは再生できない。; Hepburn: Subete no jinrui wo hakai suru. Sorera wa saisei dekinai.) is a Japanese manga series written by Katsura Ise and illustrated by Takuma Yokota. It follows a pair of academic rivals in high school growing closer over games of Magic: The Gathering, during the late 90s. The series began serializing in Kadokawa‘s Monthly Shōnen…
The Demon Girl Next Door (Japanese: まちカドまぞく, Hepburn: Machikado Mazoku, lit. “Street Corner Demon”) is a Japanese four-panel manga parody series by Izumo Itō, serialized in Houbunsha‘s seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat since 2014. It has been collected in six tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired between July and September 2019. A second season will premiere in April 2022. Plot One day, Yuko Yoshida wakes up with horns and a tail…
Fall in Love Like a Comic! (まんがみたいな恋したいっ!, Manga Mitaina Koishitai!) is a shōjo manga by Chitose Yagami. It was serialized in Ciao magazine, published by Shogakukan in Japan. The series has been licensed in North America by Viz Media and was released on October 2, 2007. The sequel, Zoku Manga Mitaina Koi Shitai! (続まんがみたいな恋したいっ!), was released on October 1, 2004, also published by Shogakukan, and it was released in English under the title Fall in…
Shadow Lady (stylized as SHADOW LADY) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masakazu Katsura. A first full-colored version was published in Shueisha‘s V Jump from 1992 to 1993. A one-shot chapter was published in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1995. Shadow Lady was then serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 1995 to January 1996, with its chapters collected in three tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga was licensed in…
Sacred Seven (セイクリッドセブン, Seikuriddo Sebun), is a 2011 Japanese science fiction anime television series produced by Sunrise under the direction of Yoshimitsu Ohashi. Script supervisor is Shin Yoshida with mechanical designs by Ippei Gyōbu. The series began broadcasting in Japan starting July 3, 2011 on the Mainichi Broadcasting System and later will be rebroadcast by TV Kanagawa, TV Aichi, Tokyo MX, and Teletama. The anime was…
H2 (Japanese: エイチ・ツー, Hepburn: Eichi Tsū) is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru Adachi. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 1992 to November 1999, with its chapters collected in thirty-four tankōbon volumes. It was adapted into a 41-episode anime series and an 11-episode television drama series, H2: Kimi to Ita Hibi, directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi. As of August 2018, the H2 manga had over 55 million copies…
