Sasaki and Miyano volume 1, a BL manga rated Teen, was recently banned district-wide by Florida’s Brevard County Public School Board. This occurred after a mother who hadn’t read the book put in an ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is the hot topic right now, with everyone from the New York Times to Japanese government officials talking about it. It’s a good time to be Koyoharu Gotoge, the creator ...

A poster that has the Japanese Red Cross Society teaming up with manga Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai! has stirred up debate online. The poster encourages readers to donate blood with a picture of Uzaki-chan ...

Manga in America have age ratings like All Ages or 16+, but who decides these ratings, how do they decide them, and how consistent are they? Some schools have pulled manga from the shelves over ...

As you may be aware, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the manga from Koyoharu Gotouge, is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the day. It’s sold about a gazillion copies in Japan, prompting some ...

The “beach episode” is an anime tradition. Characters pack up, grab their best swimsuits, and spend a day playing and soaking up sun. (And dealing out fanservice, of course.) But today, we’re not ...

Part of a CBS Evening News segment on President Trump’s new tariffs gives examples of small businesses feeling the effects. They mainly decided to highlight Phantom Comics, a Washington, D.C. comic ...

Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, the 28th film in the long-running franchise, has earned 6.34 billion yen after two weeks in theaters, making it Japan’s highest grosser of 2025 so far. The Million ...

Anime fans around the World voted on their favorite anime songs and the results are in! Japanese media, Asahi TV surveyed 1,740 people residing outside of Japan to rank their top anisongs. The top 20 ...

There you have it, folks: the two main women from FFVII take the top spots. It was close, too: Aerith received 509 votes, while Tifa received 506 (I’ve always been a Tifa guy, fwiw). Otherwise, the ...

Sometimes nothing beats the thrill of tossing in a couple 100 yen coins into a gachapon machine and opening up the plastic capsule to see your prize. It’s a gamble, of course, but that’s half the ...

Anime series like Solo Leveling are based on webtoons, or Korean digital comics. With webtoons getting more popular in America, and with them having more influence on anime, Otaku USA spoke with ...