Visual novels are all the craze, and they have been so for decades. So long that some anime is even adapted from them. These ...

Participate in an intensive manga production workshop at Japan's premiere technical training school for manga. During your two weeks in Japan, you’ll study at: Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata is ...

Living in Japan over the past fifty years, physical manga was everywhere. Chain bookstores, small independent shops and untold millions reading then on the train to work or school. Things have ...

“Novels translated into Arabic are overwhelmingly ... You miss out on the true enjoyment of it.” As Japanese manga publishers have little interest in having their manga published in the ...

Kogado Studio has announced Dear Mirror Flower, a Japanese-style fantasy visual novel set in a town where strange incidents never cease. It will launch for PC via Steam on June 20 worldwide with ...

Dance of Spring by Kana Akatsuki is getting an anime adaptation, thanks to famed Wit Studio. Akatsuki is best known as the ...

The style they pioneered would transform the face of manga in Japan. At the time, Japan was home to some 30,000 establishments known as kashihon-ya: libraries that lent books and magazines for a fee.

In a lot of ways, Japanese visual novels feel like a midpoint between manga and anime. They are voiced, have color illustrations, and even have minor animations. However, this first episode of ...

A CBS News segment on President Trump’s new tariffs highlights a comic book store and how the tariffs are impacting manga and other supplies.