Manga sales are soaring in North America, with titles like Jujutsu Kaisen and One Piece dominating the charts in May 2025. Blue Lock, a soccer-themed manga, is a surprise hit, while Dandadan gains ...

Great numbers give up on the future and leave Yonezawa. In the midst of this, Maeda Keiji remains in this place and chooses to live with people facing difficulties. Over 60, he lives in a shabby ...

Keiji Inafune left LEVEL-5 in mid-2024, the company announced in a post on its newly launched “Five-Star Workshop Devlog” development blog. FANTASY LIFE i is now in its final stage of ...

UPDATE 6/3/25: Following the departure of Keiji Inafune from Level-5, business operations of Level-5 Comcept have been transferred to the parent company. Comcept was originally founded by Inafune ...

Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has completed a minimalist renovation of a 1990s concrete building in Tokyo to create the Karimoku Research Center. The studio was tasked with turning the ...

Crunchyroll is going to make reading manga online even easier than ever before with a new manga reading app, Crunchyroll Manga, launching later this year. As anime has become more popular than ...

LAST YEAR, JAPANESE ARCHITECT KEIJI Ashizawa found a 20-year-old house by chance and bought it on impulse. It was designed by the late Mashihito Nagata – an influential architect specialising in ...

We love manga here at IGN, but the thriving Japanese industry puts out so many comics each year — with some series running for decades — it can be hard (and expensive) to keep up. But there ...

Japanese architect Keiji Ashizawa has created the interior for a skincare clinic in Tokyo, using textiles and custom-made furniture to make it feel more residential than medical. The Aloop Clinic ...

and adaptations from popular shows and manga are pushing the boundaries of both mediums. Here’s what travelers need to know about Noh and Kabuki, how they’re changing, and where you can ...