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.
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.
2015’s final issue of Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine included no new episodes of hit manga Hunter x Hunter, ending a 25-year-long record for series creator Yoshihiro Togashi.
On Dec. 17, an English version of the educational manga about immunology called *The Story of Basic Immunology* was made available on Kyowa Hakko Kirin’s global site.
Kyoto police have arrested four people charged with violating the Japanese Copyright Act for posting without permission the latest chapter of the hugely popular manga *One Piece* currently serialized in *Weekly Shonen Jump* four days ahead of its release.
eBook Initiative Japan, the company that runs the ebook store eBook Japan, opened MangaMon, an ebook store and entertainment site aimed at Indonesian audiences on Nov. 11, 2015.
An event to celebrate the release of the second volume of *Kodoku no Gourmet*, a gourmet manga hotly talked about for its unique worldview, will be held at Shinjuku Loft Plus One on Thursday, Oct. 1.
When we are trying to find out who we really are, we are likely to depend on “non-scientific” answers to explain about ourselves or the others. Somehow, besides horoscopes, Japanese people do that with “blood-types.”
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