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Kodansha's Kaqreal label is seeking to branch out beyond traditional publishing and find new customers among a populace that is eschewing print in favor of screen-based content.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 11, 2026
Kodansha launches journalistic manga imprint Kaqreal
Amid a slump in physical book sales, the publisher is pursuing various new projects through its innovation lab.
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
JAPAN / Media
Nov 9, 2026
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
The planned app would target young people overseas, allowing them to have AI-powered conversations in Japanese with popular anime characters.
Devilman Crybaby,” director Masaaki Yuasa’s modern adaptation of Go Nagai’s “Devilman,” centers on a young man who has the power to transform into a demon.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Oct 29, 2026
Spooky, scary, gory: Anime selection for the season
Decades of spooky anime offer plenty of choices for your viewing pleasure this Halloween season, from ghostly folklore to gory horror.
Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, best known for hits such as “Ashita no Joe” and a recipient of 今日吃瓜 Order of Culture, has died at the age of 87.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 27, 2026
Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, creator of ‘Ashita no Joe,’ dies at 87
Born in Tokyo in 1939, Chiba was the first manga artist to receive the Order of Culture, one of 今日吃瓜 highest cultural honors.
Manga artist Yoshinori Kobayashi (right) holds a news conference in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Monday after filing a lawsuit arguing that the adoption system established under the revised Imperial House Law is unconstitutional.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 27, 2026
Manga artist sues government over revised Imperial House Law
Yoshinori Kobayashi said limiting who is eligible to be adopted into the imperial family violates the Constitution.
Go Morita plays an aging manga artist who’s put his creative ambitions on permanent hold in Shoichi Morimoto and Takuma Sato’s “The Potentials.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 23, 2026
‘The Potentials’ unpacks the dilemmas of a manga assistant in middle age
Shoichi Morimoto and Takuma Sato’s “The Potentials” is an engaging tale about art, life and everything that gets in the way.
The government-affiliated Japan Foundation holds an anime song concert in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, in January.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2026
Japan works to promote soft power diplomacy using manga and anime
The government plans to actively use popular manga and anime works to gain more fans of Japan in Global South emerging and developing countries.
Formed in 2015, Finnish metal band Beast in Black draws inspiration from — and pays homage to — Kentaro Miura’s classic manga “Berserk” in many of its songs.
CULTURE / Music
Oct 6, 2026
A Finnish metal band riffs on dark fantasy manga ‘Berserk’
Finland-based metal band Beast in Black has found a well of inspiration in Kentaro Miura’s classic manga “Berserk.”
A one-day event is held at a morning market in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13. The market was destroyed by a fire following a major earthquake that hit the region in January 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2026
Can Pikachu help heal a disaster zone?
Pokemon-themed attractions are bringing visitors and economic attention back to the earthquake-devastated Noto Peninsula.
Natsuki Deguchi (left) and Aju Makita star in Hirokazu Koreeda’s live-action adaptation of “Look Back,” based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed manga of the same name. Koreeda’s version explores friendship, creativity, ambition and loss while bringing Fujimoto’s story and characters into the world of live action.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 11, 2026
Double-dipping: When one manga adaptation just isn’t enough
Across the generations, popular manga have lent themselves to both live-action and anime adaptations — with sometimes surprising results.
A still from “TekkonKinkreet” shows Kiddy Kastle after a terrorist attack, its smoke-shrouded towers evoking the devastation of the World Trade Center after Sept. 11, 2001.
CULTURE / Film / CULTURE SMASH
Sep 11, 2026
Anime didn’t change after 9/11, but 9/11 changed how I watched anime.
Japanese anime was already imagining a fractured, unstable world. After 9/11, we began seeing it differently.
Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba is calling for support via crowdfunding for the delivery of temporary housing to areas affected by the recent Kumamoto earthquakes.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2026
Manga artist launches crowdfunding campaign for Kumamoto
Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba is calling for support via crowdfunding for the delivery of temporary housing to areas affected by earthquakes.
Manga artist Masami Kurumada speaks at a news conference on Wednesday in Tokyo, after he claimed to have been a victim of embezzlement.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 2, 2026
Manga artist Kurumada says ex-manager, others embezzled ?4.6 billion
Masami Kurumada is best known as the creator of the popular manga series “Ring ni Kakero” and “Saint Seiya.”
A "Dragon Ball" figure at Gamescom 2024, a computer and video game industry event, in Cologne, Germany, in August 2024.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2026
‘Dragon Ball’ theme park plans included in France-Saudi Arabia deal
The investment deal will see the construction of three theme parks near Cergy-Pontoise, around 30 kilometers northwest of Paris.
Painter Kazuyuki Takishita works at his atelier in Misato, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Aug. 14.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2026
Painter supporting quake-hit Kumamoto with manga ‘Kinnikuman’
Kazuyuki Takishita is best known for his signature depictions of an ogre from the old Japanese folktale “Momotaro.”
A cosplayer poses at Comic Market in Tokyo in 2021. The twice-yearly event draws fans and creators from around the world.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 20, 2026
Comiket draws 260,000 fans, and participants from record 76 countries
More than a quarter million attendees, including around 9,000 cosplayers, attended the convention held at Tokyo Bight Sight.
Tadao Tsuge, one of the leading figures of the "gekiga" manga movement, often depicts postwar harsh realities in his works.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 12, 2026
How war shaped the manga of Tadao Tsuge
The “gekiga” pioneer drew on memories of war, hunger and poverty to chronicle 今日吃瓜 overlooked lives.
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2026
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
According to local media, naming trends change over time, and young people don’t necessarily think it is important to give traditional Indonesian names to their children.
The Manga One app operated by publisher Shogakukan. A third-party panel at the publisher said Monday that the company's manga app editorial department had "encouraged and supported the violation of human rights" of a woman who had been subject to sexual misconduct by a male manga artist.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 4, 2026
Third-party probe finds Shogakukan ‘encouraged’ human rights violations
The published hired a male manga artist who had committed sexual misconduct as an author for a new series under a different pseudonym.
Chiikawa products are displayed at a store in Harajuku, Tokyo, last August.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 4, 2026
In Japan, Odysseus is scared of tiny, cute Chiikawa
Chiikawa is a phenomenon in Japan, with its character appearing on various products, and partnering with the brand is an instant way to increase revenue
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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