Rainbow Sentai Robin (Japanese: レインボー戦隊ロビン, Hepburn: Reinbō Sentai Robin, lit. “Rainbow Squadron Robin”) is an anime and manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori. It is the first anime to feature a 5-unit superhero team. While the animation was produced by Toei Animation (Toei Douga at the time), it was also technically produced by Ishinomori’s studio, Studio Zero, that he founded with Fujiko F….
Jihai (JIHAI〜磁海〜, lit. “Magnetic Sea”) is a SF Manga series by Toshimi Nigoshi that was serialized in Comic B’s-LOG magazine (an Enterbrain publication) from April 2006 until January 2008. The series was collected in three tankōbon volumes. The English-language release was licensed by CMX Manga. It was published in English in 2009. Plot In the future, mankind has installed a ring around the Earth to prevent the disasters that…
Fairy Navigator Runa (妖界ナビ・ルナ, Youkai Navi Runa) is a children’s novel series by Miyoko Ikeda published by Iwasaki Shoten. It was later adapted into a manga series by Michiyo Kikuta published in Nakayoshi by Kodansha and licensed by Del Rey. Publication was taken over by Kodansha after the second volume of the manga was released by Del Rey. Characters Runa Rindo Runa is a fourth grade ten-year-old…
Eden’s Bowy (Japanese: ヱデンズ ボゥイ, Hepburn: Wedenzu Bui) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kitsune Tennouji. It was originally published in the magazine Comptiq in 1994, but it moved to Shōnen Ace in 1996. It was adapted into a 26-episode animated series by Studio Deen in 1999. Plot Comic version After human civilization were destroyed and rebuilt for several times, the world was now a…
Made in Abyss (Japanese: メイドインアビス, Hepburn: Meido in Abisu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihito Tsukushi. It has been serialized online in Takeshobo‘s digital publication Web Comic Gamma since October 2012, and has been collected into 11 tankōbon volumes. The story follows an orphaned girl named Riko, who finds and befriends a part-robot boy named Reg, and descends with him into the titular “Abyss”…
Kagaku na Yatsura (カガクなヤツら, “Scientific Guys”) is a manga series written and illustrated by Hideaki Yoshikawa. There was an OVA adaptation released along with the fourth volume, animated by Hoods Entertainment and directed by Hiraku Kaneko. Characters Haruki Komaba (駒場 遥希, Haruki Komaba) Voiced by: Junji Majima Haruki is high school boy with two eccentric girl friends. He gets involved in ecchi troubles caused by the…
Jigyaku no Uta (自虐の詩, lit. “Self-torture Song”) is a Japanese manga series by Yoshiie Gouda. The series was adapted by Yukihiko Tsutsumi into a film, known in Japan under the same title and in the United States as Happily Ever After. Viz Pictures licensed the film for release in the United States. The series follows husband and wife Isao Hayama (葉山 イサオ, Hayama Isao) and Yukie Morita (森田 幸江, Morita Yukie). Yukie…
Fairy Gone (stylized as Fairy gone) is a Japanese anime television series produced by P.A. Works that aired from April to December 2019. Plot In the aftermath of the War of Unification, all the nations of the continent of Eastald are forcefully united under a single ruler. During the war, special soldiers were implanted with Fairy organs, allowing them to summon…
Eden: It’s an Endless World! is a science fiction manga by Japanese artist Hiroki Endo, published monthly in the Japanese magazine Monthly Afternoon. It is published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics, in the United Kingdom by Titan Books, and in Germany by Egmont Manga & Anime. Eden is set in the near future, following a pandemic called closure virus which killed…
Daemons of the Shadow Realm (Japanese: 黄泉のツガイ, Hepburn: Yomi no Tsugai, lit. “Pair of the Underworld”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. It has been serialized in Square Enix‘s Monthly Shōnen Gangan shōnen manga anthology magazine since December 2021. Publication Daemons of the Shadow Realm, written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa, was officially announced in the August 2021 issue of Square Enix‘s shōnen manga anthology magazine Monthly Shōnen Gangan in celebration of…
Call of the Night (Japanese: よふかしのうた, Hepburn: Yofukashi no Uta) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kotoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday since August 2019. In North America, the manga is licensed for English release by Viz Media. An anime television series adaptation produced by Liden Films aired from July to September 2022 on Fuji TV‘s Noitamina programming block. In 2023, the manga won the 68th Shogakukan…
Babel II (Japanese: バビル2世, Hepburn: Babiru Ni-sei) is a Japanese 1971 manga series by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It was translated into an animated format in 1973 as a television series, in 1992 as an original video animation series and in 2001 as a thirteen-episode television series. Yokoyama’s sequel to the series, set in a parallel universe, is entitled His Name Is 101 (その名は101, Sono Na wa Wan-Zero-Wan). Plot The series…
