I have very little faith in the Japanese film industry's ability to make a decent live action adaptation of Attack on Titan. Very few studios here could supply the budget required to make it work. This is especially the case ...
| Elliot Gay |
Hey there! It's time again for that Monday tradition that hasn't managed to happen on a Monday for at least a month - Shonen Showdown! Appearing on time this week are your favorite usual battle anime and manga suspects: Hunter x Hunter, One Piece, Fairy Tail, Naruto and Bleach! You should get on below as well to read up, and tell us your thoughts on the week in fighting in the comments!
| Josh Tolentino |
I have no idea if anybody out there is reading it, but Hajime Segawa's Tokyo ESP is a lot of fun. The first arc stars a high school girl named Rinka, a poor girl who ends up developing super powers that allow her t...
| Elliot Gay |
If you're a fan of slice of life, here's a thing for you. Sunny, by Taiyo Matsumoto, has been grabbed by VIZ Media and translated by Michael Arias (producer: The Animatrix). The release of the first volume of this manga will ...
| Kristina Pino |
Hello and welcome to another week of Shonen Showdown, the weekly battle anime and manga recap that's slowly filling out its harem with a gaggle of nameless extras! Thanks to last week's Golden Week celebrations the slate is a...
| Josh Tolentino |
Many of us are still waiting for David Production's remake of Stardust Crusaders, and Lucky Lands Communication has prepared us for its inevitable premiere with a useful item that's coming out in August. And w...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
Free Comic Book Day is happening this Saturday, and Viz is ready to reveal their free samples for this year's event! Let's just say that the Shonen Jump part sample has gotten better, because Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration, the...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
After 18 long years, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's Neon Genesis Evangelion manga will finally be reaching its conclusion. Some of you may not realize this, but Sadamoto's manga treatment of the hit series actually started its run befo...
| Elliot Gay |
It's time for another week of Shonen Showdown, the weekly battle anime and manga recap that's swirling out of control and into another dimension! Before we make our fateful *ahem* "DT", we leave you with our weekly legacy: to...
| Josh Tolentino |
With Nisioisin's Medaka Box coming to a close this Saturday, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that any tangentially related media would be ending as well. Medaka Box spinoff manga, Good Loser Kumagawa, will be ending i...
| Elliot Gay |
This one came out of nowhere. HBO and director Guillermo Del Toro are teaming up to bring a live action adaptation of Naoki Urasawa's Monster to television. Del Toro will be co-writing the series with Steven Thompson, the lat...
| Elliot Gay |
Hey, you! Want to look tough? Want to look strong? Want to look INTIMIDATING?! Well, don't become a random thug extra on a long-running shonen battle anime, because you might look like the freaks above! Better to a...
| Josh Tolentino |
I never picked up the original Old Boy manga, but I was a really big fan of the Chan Woo Park film. Ever since I heard Spike Lee had decided to remake the film for Western audiences, I've been quite wary of the concept. Howev...
| Hiroko Yamamura |
Often times strange, obtuse, but almost always a good time, Nisioisin's Medaka Box is a personal favorite of mine. It's an inconsistent series that likes to play with manga and anime tropes, to the point of being so incredibl...
| Elliot Gay |
Hello there, and welcome to the latest edition of Shonen Showdown! Spring may be well underway for the rest of this season's animated offerings, but battle anime and manga are a bit more like the tides, coming in and out, rai...
| Josh Tolentino |
Say what else you will about Sword Art Online, but there's no denying that last year's VR-MMO-spectacular was a wild commercial success, and for more than just its core cast. Among the two most popular characters in the serie...
| Josh Tolentino |
A couple years back, a friend of mine talked about how he wanted to have One Piece's Gear Third Luffy tattooed on his back. While he never had the chance to do it, we all thought that it was a dumb idea, since Gear Third Luff...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
Well this is unfortunate news. Noboru Yamaguchi, author of Zero no Tsukaima and Green Green, has passed away. He'd been battling with cancer for quite some time, and in December was re-admitted into the hospital for treatment...
| Elliot Gay |
Please bear with me for a second, people, because I haven't finished congratulating Danny Choo on his new position as a member of the METI (Short for Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry) Creative Industries Int...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
Look at the wonders a simple Oiroke no Jutsu can do to the skin! That's right, I'm still Josh, but in a second, British form! Cower in fear as my sultry tones remind you of all the James Bond films you haven't seen yet! Ahaha...
| Chris Walden |
The newest manga from Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata didn't seem like it was going to creep anywhere near the popularity of Death Note, but here we are after a whopping 75 anime episodes. That's not to say that it d...
| Chris Walden |
I spent a good portion of my childhood devouring anything with the Dragon Ball Z brand on it. School would end, and I'd rush home to catch the latest episode of the Cell Saga on Cartoon Network's Toonami block. Everyday ...
| Elliot Gay |
Though it's certain that scads of school-age kids are happily playing Monster Hunter as we speak, Capcom isn't about to rest on its hunting laurels. In fact, they're going big and diverse with the just-announced Gaist C...
| Josh Tolentino |
If you have been meaning to get your babies to grow into a muscular adult with the tendency to pose fabulously, Lucky Lands Communication has created their own line of Jojo baby items that will aid you in your bizarre baby ra...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
Ninjas and Pirates, Hunters, Wizards, Swordsmen, too. Shonen Showdown, now.
| Josh Tolentino |
Rikka is the star of a home, perhaps too close. Incest is cool..right?
| Hiroko Yamamura |
Sakura-Con is still going on as we speak, and Josh "Totsu" Totman is scouring the entire con like a beast! As he storms through the catacombs of Seattle's anime convention, JT has discovered Yen Press's latest annou...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
Welcome to the latest edition of Shonen Showdown, the weekly anime and manga recap that's not afraid to nuke your offspring if that's what it'll take to get you to read the hottest recaps of hot-blooded battle anime and ...
| Josh Tolentino |
Ever wanted to own the strongest works of art brought to you by the man that created the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure? Well, you are in luck, my friend, because Shueisha is taking a stand to release an artbook that will have eve...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
Hey there, and welcome to the Gates of Wherever a Rashomon is a Gate To! I'll assume some sort of underworld. Before you enter, though, why not kick back, relax, and take in the latest installment of Shonen Showdown, Japanato...
| Josh Tolentino |
Triage X managed to hold onto a spot on this week's charts, despite a deluge of new titles from Viz. Naturally, items like Rosario+Vampire and One Piece are going to grab some of the top spots, but the fact tha...
| Brad Rice |
Eiichiro Oda is a machine. The man has been cranking out One Piece for so long that if it was a child it could get its driver's licence by now. I've heard many stories about his unbelievable schedule that I wonder how sick do...
| Josh Totman |
Wow. This came straight out of the blue. It seems that JManga, the Japanese publisher-backed digital manga portal, will cease operations, according to an announcement from the company. As of midnight tonight the site will hal...
| Josh Tolentino |
The Akiba reports that Kimi no Iru Machi, a manga/story by the same creator of Suzuka, which has only had a couple of OVAs will now be adapted until a full-on show. There aren't really any details further than that, thou...
| Kristina Pino |
Hello and welcome to the March 11th edition of Shonen Showdown, the weekly battlin' recap that's also doubling up as a "Crazy Cartoon Electrocution-Hair" gallery this week! Besides that, we've also got hot recaps of the latest and greatest in shonen fight-shows, including Naruto, Bleach, Fairy Tail, and Hunter x Hunter!
| Josh Tolentino |
It's a big week for new titles on the list, dear readers. This week, Battle Angel Alita: Last Order climbs to the #1 position, but we have five other titles that appear for the first time on this list. It's good to see n...
| Brad Rice |
We all have to meet our Maker sometime, but some of us simply do it way too early. The man who was responsible for first bringing manga as we know it to North America, Toren Smith, has passed away. Smith's friend and writer J...
| Jeff Chuang |
Welcome to the latest edition of Shonen Showdown, the weekly fightin' anime that gets back up, even when it's been beaten so bad that its face is completely shaded-over! The horrors! What isn't horrific, though, is our sweet slate of satisfying synopses, including our coverage of the latest in Naruto, Bleach, Hunter x Hunter, Fairy Tail, and One Piece!
| Josh Tolentino |
This week, we're in for a slow list of top titles. Battle Angel Alita manages to crack into the top ten, but we see a lot of repeats and older titles crop up -- that means it's been a slow week. Viz and Kodansha can't co...
| Brad Rice |
Thermae Romae creator Mari Yamazaki has a new project: depicting the life and times of Steve Jobs in manga form. Announced on NHK's Hello From Studio Park, Yamazaki commented on her stereotype, saying "If there's anyone who w...
| Brad Rice |
Ever wanted the characters in your manga to jump off the pages and into the real world? I know I do every time I read hentai, but that's not the point. The point is French manga artist Lowra has done just that with her drawin...
| Josh Totman |
You probably wouldn't be able to guess from my love of sci-fi anime, but the romantic anime series, Marmalade Boy is one of my all time favorites. I usually don't dig in shoujo anime and manga, but the Marmalade Boy TV series...
| Hiroko Yamamura |
Trying to catch up on a long running manga can be a pain at times; especially when you have to venture out of your way to hunt down the previous volumes. I know I've been there, and it can take some time to make sure that you...
| Salvador G-Rodiles |
I find myself, once again, excitedly reporting on new and upcoming manga from the VIZ Media imprint VIZ Kids, but this time instead of Hello Kitty it's about Pokémon. For the Pokémon fans, there are actual...
| Kristina Pino |
Welcome to the latest edition of Shonen Showdown, the battle anime and manga recap that could use a hand - a few hundred thousand of them, to be exact. We've got our many, many, many hands full this week with hot-stuff recaps of One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, Fairy Tail, Naruto, and Bleach. Lend us a hand by contributing your enjoyment to the consumption of sweet synopses below!
| Josh Tolentino |
Looking to see what's winning the hearts and minds of the people this week in the manga world? Look no further! This week's list contains a lot of tried-and-true titles, but we do see some new ones cropping up. Most notably a...
| Brad Rice |
Welcome to another edition of Shonen Showdown, the weekly battle anime and manga recap that's got a dirty little secret to tell you: It likes fighting. OK, that's not much of a secret, but it IS the crux of this week's c...
| Josh Tolentino |
Heaven smiles upon us! Kiyohiko Azuma just tweeted that the checks for Yotsuba& Vol. 12 have been completed and it will be released March 9 in Japan. Given the release schedule for North America so far, one might ass...
| Eric Koziol |
Every new trailer for CyberConnect2's Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle evokes the feeling of opening up a birthday present. There's so much joy and wonder to be had, that all you can think to do is hug your...
| Elliot Gay |
Hey! Remember the Hentai Kamen live-action adaptation? OF COURSE YOU DO, it's about a martial artist who fights for justice with panties on his face, a strap on his jock and fishnet stockings and stilettos on his legs a...
| Josh Tolentino |
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