From Cospa’s Cospatio brand comes a maid outfit based on that of main character Shirley Madison of the series *Shirley* supervised by series author Kaoru Mori that will be released in late March 2016.
Japan switched from the Chinese lunisolar calendar to the Gregorian calendar in 1873, but the country still retains quite a few Chinese traditions for celebrating the New Year, including giving children pocket money, or otoshidama.
Overlap, makers of anime, games, light novels, and more, will be launching a digital BL (Boys Love) comic magazine titled *LiQulle* on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016.
Comic Market 89, the world’s largest event for displaying and selling new doujinshi, opened its doors on Dec. 29. The first day’s attendance was recorded at 150,000.
Fujino Omori’s first ranobe (light novel) *Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?* has sold more than 3.7 million copies since its debut in 2013.
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