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How Crunchyroll Is Changing the Anime Industry

February 21, 2018 Katherine Dacey

How Crunchyroll Is Changing the Anime Industry

Last week, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Crunchyroll has paid its Japanese licensing partners over $100 million in royalties since 2008. That number is even more remarkable in light of Crunchyroll’s pirate roots; in 2007, the thought of Crunchyroll forging relationships … [Read more...]

Manga Critic, News & Links Anime, CLAMP, Crunchyroll, Go Nagai, Kodansha Comics, Makoto Shinkai, Mazinger, Naruto, Satoshi Kon, Sayo Yamamoto, Shonen Jump, YALSA

Seven Seas Licenses Go Nagai’s Devilman

May 21, 2017 Katherine Dacey

Seven Seas Licenses Go Nagai’s Devilman

Sweet fancy Jesus! Seven Seas just announced plans to publish Go Nagai's 1972 classic Devilman and its 2012 sequel Devilman vs. Hades. Though historians have long regarded Devilman as one of Nagai's most influential creations, no North American publisher has licensed this … [Read more...]

Manga Critic, News & Links Anime, Fumiyo Kouno, Go Nagai, Hayao Miyazaki, Naruto, Seven Seas, Splatoon!, VIZ

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Vol. 1

March 28, 2017 Katherine Dacey

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Vol. 1

Since its 1999 debut, Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto has sold more than 220 million volumes in 35 countries and spawned a cottage industry of anime adaptations, costumes, trading cards, video games, figurines, and stage plays. VIZ published the final English-language volume in 2015, … [Read more...]

Manga, Manga Critic, Reviews Boruto, Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Ninja, Shonen, Shonen Jump, VIZ

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The Manga Revue, 4/2/18

The Manga Revue, 4/2/18

April 3, 2018

CITY, Keiichi Arawi's latest series, charts the misadventures of Midori, a feckless undergrad who's behind on the rent, in … [...]

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Apollo’s Song, Vols. 1-2

Apollo’s Song, Vols. 1-2

September 1, 2010

Apollo’s Song may be one of the strangest sex ed manuals ever written. It begins with a textbook Tezuka scene, at once … [...]

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