15 Nov 2026
News Anime/manga
Billboard Japan's 2026 year-end Hot Manga chart has One Piece volumes 113, 115 and 114 in first, second and third, as Eiichiro Oda's…
ColonelFrog / 15 Nov 2026
9 Nov 2026
News Fantasy
Kagurabachi chapter 138, Heavy Charge, is out on VIZ and MANGA Plus, with the Cypic anime due in April 2027.
ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
4 Nov 2026
News Horror
Seraph of the End ends with chapter 161 in Jump SQ on 4 December, closing a 14-year run. The anime, meanwhile, is still…
ColonelFrog / 4 Nov 2026
2 Nov 2026
News Fantasy
Norihiro Yagi, the man who gave the 2000s its moodiest silver-eyed swordswomen in Claymore, has a new series out, and it begins with…
ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
1 Nov 2026
News Anime/manga
TMS Entertainment is adapting Esu Omori's manga about a dog-wary horror fan and the Shiba Inu ghost haunting her cheap flat, for summer…
ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
29 Oct 2026
News Anime/manga
Seven Seas' latest licences include Yue Ben Du's mermaid cultivation romance Into the Sea, Fuyuki Izumida's hitwoman comedy Nighthawk, Once Again and a…
ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
26 Oct 2026
News Scifi
Haruko Ichikawa, creator of Land of the Lustrous, launches Cosmic Mimimi, a 'neo kawaii sci-fi' manga, in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon on 25 November.
ColonelFrog / 26 Oct 2026
21 Oct 2026
News Anime/manga
A new teaser and main cast for the Murciélago anime, in which a former death-row inmate becomes the Tokyo police's licensed killer of…
ColonelFrog / 21 Oct 2026
16 Oct 2026
News Anime/manga
Kei Urana's Gachiakuta manga returns from its research hiatus on 11 November in Weekly Shonen Magazine, while anime season two waits in the…
ColonelFrog / 16 Oct 2026
5 Sep 2026
Roundup Anime/manga
We have not run a proper anime and manga news roundup since last October, which turns out to have been a scheduling error…
ColonelFrog / 5 Sep 2026
17 Sep 2025
Roundup Anime/manga
Infinity castles, kaiju, and vending machines with more personality than half the Hollywood slate — it’s been a busy old fortnight in anime-land.…
ColonelFrog / 17 Sep 2025
9 Dec 2020
SF / J-lifeIdeas worth exploring
News J-life
What if I told you there was a place in Tokyo which was a manga lending library that served you a free beer…
ColonelFrog / 9 Dec 2020