Ace Attorney, known in Japan as Gyakuten Saiban: Sono “Shinjitsu”, Igiari! (Japanese: 逆転裁判 ～その「真実」、異議あり！～, lit. “Turnabout Trial: I Object to That ‘Truth’!”), is an anime series produced by A-1 Pictures, based on Capcom‘s video game series of the same name. It is directed by Ayumu Watanabe and written by Atsuhiro Tomioka, with Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi serving as a script supervisor. The first season—which adapts the first two games of…
21 Emon (Japanese: 21エモン, Hepburn: Nijūichi Emon) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko Fujio (Fujimoto alone) published from 1968 to 1969 in the Shogakukan magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Set in the same universe as Doraemon, and predating that work by only one year. The manga was then made in a TV anime series by the animation studio Shin-Ei Animation in 1991. From the manga also two…
Kagetora is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Segami. It has been licensed in North America by Del Rey and consists of 11 volumes. Plot The story is about a male ninja named Kagetora, whose job is to teach the arts of self-defense and combat to the female heir of a renowned family of skilled martial artists, Yuki….
Fake Fur (Japanese: フェイクファー, Hepburn: Feiku Fā) is a manga by Satomi Yamagata. It is licensed in English by Digital Manga Publishing, which published Fake Fur in April 2007. A prequel volume, Manic Love (感情回路, Kanjō Kairo), was published by DMP in September 2007. Plot The first story in Fake Fur concerns a schoolboy, Yamashita who learns he is gay, and falls in love with his straight classmate Kubo, who moves…
Eiji (エイジ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hisashi Eguchi. It was serialized in Shueisha‘s shōnen manga magazine Fresh Jump from 1984 to 1985. Media[edit] Manga[edit] Written and illustrated by Hisashi Eguchi, Eiji was serialized in Shueisha‘s shōnen manga magazine Fresh Jump from 1984 to 1985. Shueisha collected its chapters in a single volume, which was released on July 15, 1985. It was followed by two short sequels; Eiji ’85 and Eiji 2. Shueisha released a bunkoban edition, which included…
Daiku no Hatō (第九の波濤, “The Ninth Wave”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Michiteru Kusaba. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 2017 to April 2023. Publication Written and illustrated by Michiteru Kusaba, Daiku no Hatō started in Shogakukan‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday on April 19, 2017. Kusaba stated that Ivan Aivazovsky‘s The Ninth Wave inspired the series’ title and he wanted to make a work that…
Baby Steps (Japanese: ベイビーステップ, Hepburn: Beibī Suteppu) is a Japanese manga series by Hikaru Katsuki. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 2007 to November 2017, with its chapters collected in forty-seven tankōbon volumes. The story is centered on Eiichirō Maruo, a first year honor student who one day decides that he is lacking exercise. He then joins the Southern Tennis Club (STC) where…
20th Century Boys (Japanese: 20世紀少年, Hepburn: Nijusseiki Shōnen) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan‘s seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1999 to 2006, with the 249 chapters published into 22 tankōbon volumes. A 16 chapter continuation, titled 21st Century Boys (21世紀少年, Nijūisseiki Shōnen), ran in the same magazine from 2006 to 2007 and was gathered into two tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of…
Gaku: Minna no Yama (岳 みんなの山, lit. “Peak: Everyone’s Mountain”) is a Japanese mountaineering manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Ishizuka. It was serialized by Shogakukan in the seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original from September 2003 to June 2012, with its chapters collected in eighteen tankōbon volumes. It depicts the adventures of a volunteer with an alpine search and rescue team in the Japanese Alps. Gaku: Minna no Yama received the…
Accel World (アクセル・ワールド, Akuseru Wārudo) is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by HiMA. The series began publication in ASCII Media Works‘ Dengeki Bunko imprint from February 2009 and is licensed in North America by Yen Press. Two manga series began serialization in Dengeki Bunko Magazine from May 2010, with another series beginning serialization in Dengeki Daioh in January 2013. An anime adaptation by Sunrise aired in Japan between April and…
Wandering Island (Japanese: 冒険エレキテ島, Hepburn: Bōken Erekite-tō, lit. “Adventure Electric Island”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenji Tsuruta. It is about a woman who runs an air delivery service and her quest to find a moving island. It was first published as part of Kodansha‘s manga anthology Manga Box AMASIA [ja] in July 2010 and continued serialization in Kodansha’s seinen manga magazine Afternoon in September 2011. Its latest chapter was released…
Papuwa (stylized as PAPUWA) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ami Shibata and adapted into a 26-episode anime television series. The series follows Kotaro who is stranded on an uncharted island inhabited by strange talking animals and has no memory of his past. Papuwa is the sequel to Shibata’s 1991 series Nangoku Shōnen Papuwa-kun (南国少年パプワくん, lit. Southern Boy Papuwa), serialized in Enix‘s…
