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  • Cover art for the upcoming Netflix remake of One Piece

    A One Piece anime remake is in the works from Netflix and Wit Studio

    Netflix announced on Sunday that it's working on a remake of the One Piece anime, starting from the beginning of the manga. There's no release date yet. Wit Studio, the animation studio behind the first three seasons of Attack on Titan, will be producing it.

  • A promo photo of the new VIZ Manga service, showing its interface on a phone held up by a hand against a red background.

    VIZ Manga subscription service releases English chapters the same time Japan gets them

    VIZ Media has launched a new service that will make English versions of the latest chapters of select manga titles available to subscribers as soon as they're released in Japan.

    Mariella Moon
    05.09.2023
  • 'My Hero Academia' movie

    Netflix is producing a live action 'My Hero Academia' movie

    Netflix is adapting 'My Hero Academia' as a live action movie.

    Jon Fingas
    12.12.2022
  • 'Berserk' anime series from 1997

    Anime classic 'Berserk' still isn't available on Netflix in the US, UK and Canada

    Netflix said the classic anime series 'Berserk' would stream starting December 1st, but it's still not available in the US.

    Jon Fingas
    12.05.2022
  • Crunchyroll on Switch

    Crunchyroll has finally arrived on the Nintendo Switch

    The anime streaming service has launched an app in Nintendo’s eShop.

    Amrita Khalid
    02.17.2022
  • My Hero Academia

    Bandai Namco is making a 'My Hero Academia' battle royale for PS4, Xbox One and Switch

    As if the market for battle royale games wasn’t crowded enough already, you’ll soon have another option in the form of My Hero Academia: Ultra Rumble.

    Igor Bonifacic
    01.13.2022
  • 'Attack on Titan' equipment in 'Call of Duty: Vanguard'

    'Attack on Titan' gear is coming to 'Call of Duty'

    An 'Attack on Titan' skin and gear are coming to 'Call of Duty: Vanguard' and 'Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific' with a new bundle.

    Jon Fingas
    01.11.2022
  • BRAZIL - 2019/07/22: In this photo illustration a Crunchyroll logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    Sony's Funimation agrees to buy anime streamer Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion

    Two years ago, Sony’s purchase of Funimation drove a wedge behind the anime production house and Crunchyroll, which is primarily a subscription streaming video service. Crunchyroll ended up becoming a part of AT&T via the Time Warner acquisition and supplied some content for HBO Max, but now AT&T has agreed to sell it off to Sony/Funimation for $1.175 billion. Crunchyroll noted it has 3 million subscribers and over 90 million registered users across more than 200 countries.

    Richard Lawler
    12.09.2020
  • Twentieth Century Fox

    How ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ triumphed over the uncanny valley

    When the first trailer for the live action Alita: Battle Angel dropped in late December 2017, the internet was abuzz about the eponymous character's large CG eyes. Heck, even we called them "creepy" and "weird." Now that the film's finally here and I've had a chance to check out this long-awaited comic adaptation, I can safely say our fears were overblown. In fact, Alita might be one of the most realistic humans I've ever seen on-screen -- huge manga eyes and all.

    Kris Naudus
    02.16.2019
  • ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Get new manga when Japan does with Shonen Jump's subscription service

    Shonen Jump, one of the most beloved and longest-running manga magazines on Earth is once again reinventing itself. First printed in 1968, the publication has hosted its American localization as an online magazine since 2012 and, come December 17th, will offer a subscription service delivering the latest chapters from popular series the same that that they're released in Japan.

  • Nintendo

    Japan gets golden NES Classic dedicated to old anime games

    When Nintendo promised to revive the NES Classic Edition and SNES Classic Editions, we didn't expect the company to do it this way. In celebration of Japanese manga magazine Weekly Jump, Nintendo will release a special gold and red Famicom Mini (NES to Western audiences) preloaded with 20 games that were based on manga from the magazine, as spotted by Kotaku. The mini console will be released in Japan on July 7th. If you really want one, your best bet is probably to keep an eye on eBay, or find a friend abroad.

  • Infinitap Games

    Turning indie horror hit 'Neverending Nightmares' into a manga

    She stands in front of you, clutching a teddy bear to her chest. She can't be older than 8, with long, straight black hair and a frilled dress. You don't know her name, but she's smiling warmly. And then, suddenly, she isn't: Her doe eyes widen, white and afraid. Her mouth gapes and blood drips past her lips. You follow her gaze down -- a knife protrudes from her stomach, staining her dress bright red, blood dribbling into her socks and Mary Janes. A knife that your hands are grasping tightly. This is how the video game Neverending Nightmares begins, and it's also the first scene in a manga of the same name that debuted last week. As a game, Neverending Nightmares is a chilling, powerful peek into the darkest thoughts of a person struggling with depression and intrusive thoughts. The protagonist, Thomas, is trapped in a hellscape loop, repeatedly waking up only to realize he's still in a terrible nightmare: Headless corpses are piled against black-and-white walls; bodies hang from meat hooks in a claustrophobic cell; Thomas pulls a vein from his wrist like a stray thread.

    Jessica Conditt
    12.05.2017
  • Kris Naudus / Engadget

    Square Enix's Project Hikari makes a good case for VR comics

    Comics are big business in Japan, but here in the West, Japanese and American titles alike tend to get overshadowed by movies, television and video games. In fact, many of those programs might even be adaptations of popular comic titles. For its first big VR project, Square Enix's Advanced Technology Division is putting the spotlight back on manga. But it isn't just about taking these stories and pasting them into a headset. Due for release in 2018 on all major VR platforms, Project Hikari aims to capture the look and feel of reading a manga while taking advantage of the immersive nature of VR to let the viewer delve deeper into these worlds.

    Kris Naudus
    10.12.2017
  • UDON Entertainment

    Pro ‘Street Fighter’ player immortalized in manga biography

    In Japan, Pro gamers can be a bit of a big deal. Yet, despite their celebrity status, there's only one gamer who's managed to get their own manga series. Daigo Umehara is the man with that honor. Considered to be one of the best Street Fighter players on the planet, he currently holds a Guinness World Record for being the game's most successful pro fighter. Now, thanks to his huge popularity, UDON Entertainment has opted to bring that manga series over to the west.

    Tom Regan
    07.06.2017
  • The Morning After: Monday, November 14, 2016

    Engadget's weekend included a Japan-only Kindle made for manga and comics, an early tour of Nike's tech-packed store in NYC and staring at a supermoon. So it wasn't a bad weekend. This week, expect to hear plenty of car news direct from the LA Auto Show. And even if you're no petrolhead, there should be more than enough tech news, reviews and occasionally furious editorials to get you through the week.

    Mat Smith
    11.14.2016
  • Watch the first live-action 'Ghost in the Shell' trailer

    Want to see how Hollywood takes on Ghost in the Shell outside of a handful of tiny video clips? You just got your chance. Paramount has released a full-length trailer for its spin on the anime/manga classic, and it's at least interesting -- if not necessarily what purists would want. It's visually stunning, with more than a few moments that will remind you of at least the 1995 animated movie. It's mainly the casting and unanswered questions that might leave you on the fence ahead of the movie's March 31st, 2017 launch date.

    Jon Fingas
    11.13.2016
  • Amazon Japan's manga-centric Kindle is all about storage

    Japanese comics, called manga, are hugely popular. Although you probably knew that, you probably don't know the extent of it. In 2015, Japan's bestselling manga series, One Piece, sold more than 14 million copies. It helps that the format runs a hugely broad spectrum of topics; they're not just action-packed comics aimed at children but foodie series, sports, alcohol, comedy, romance and more. There are also plenty of one-off manga novels, like Steve Jobs: The Manga, to name one (ridiculous) example. It makes plenty of sense, then, for Amazon Japan to launch a special manga-focused edition of its e-reader, with faster page turning and eight times the storage for your digital manga collection.

    Mat Smith
    11.12.2016
  • Amazon Japan's manga-ready Kindle has 8 times the storage

    Amazon Japan has an unusual challenge with the Kindle: it not only has to cater to your typical bookworm, but to a local fondness for image-heavy (and thus storage-intensive) manga books. What it's going to do? Release a special model just for those readers, apparently. The company has introduced a manga version of the Kindle Paperwhite with 32GB of storage, or eight times as much space as the run-of-the-mill 4GB model. You could cram every single volume of Asari-chan, Kochikame and Naruto into this e-reader, Amazon says. On top of that, a 33 percent faster page turning speed promises to keep you engrossed in your comics.

    Jon Fingas
    10.18.2016
  • Kodansha/Hajime Isayama

    'Attack on Titan' gets same-day release for English speakers

    English-speaking fans of Attack on Titan no longer have to badger their favorite scanlation group to speed it up. The hit manga's publisher, Kodansha, has teamed up with comiXology and Amazon to make each chapter available in English on the same day it's released in Japan. That means you can download the latest chapter every week as soon it's out for either the comiXology or the Kindle app. You can even buy all the previous releases if you want the full collection.

    Mariella Moon
    04.10.2016