(Warning: The following article may contain spoilers for the end of the Nadesico TV series! Read at your own risk!) Several months later Xebec unleashed the film, Martian Successor Nadesico: The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back when the Pokémon: Black and White anime was airing in Japan, episodes 23 and 24 ended up not airing due to the events of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. While they were initially just ...

Senate Bill 20, which unanimously passed the Texas state senate, has some anime fans nervous because its vague wording could lead to anime and manga bans — and potentially even fans behind bars. The ...

If you’ve looked around Twitter this month, you may have seen mention of Pui Pui Molcar. The stop-motion series is one of many short subjects featuring on children’s variety shows. But this one in ...

If a girl teases you, that means she likes you! Unfortunately, Akiteru knows from experience that isn’t the case. Because every girl he interacts with shows him nothing but scorn, and he’s not scored ...

Very sad news arrived this week out of the official staff Twitter account for Maon Kurosaki. The singer has been suffering from a chronic illness, and she suddenly passed away from its effects on ...

Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun: IruMafia Edition hails from writer and artist Hiroja. The spinoff runs alongside and in collaboration with Nishi’s main series, but there are some differences right ...

Here’s yet another sign of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’s dominance throughout Japan. Now Sony is getting in on the tie-up game, releasing limited-edition Walkman music players and wireless ...

Matt Schley (rhymes with "guy") lives in Tokyo, and has been OUSA's "man in Japan" since 2012. He's also written about anime and Japanese film for the Japan Times, Screen Daily and more.