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While casual manga readers will enjoy short and sweet titles like Demon Slayer and Death Note, other manga series feel like a marathon to read, and with the best titles, it is absolutely worth the time and effort. If a reader really wants to, they could power through a long manga series and finish it sooner than later with a few binge sessions, but manga can also be savored over time. Also, a reader may be juggling many manga and anime series at once, making binging a less appealing option.

If a manga reader wants to take their time with a lengthy title and juggle it with quicker reads, there are plenty of strong options to choose from, including both complete and ongoing series. These lengthy manga titles may take a year or longer to finish when read that way, and they will reward any reader's patience with excellent stories and fantastic art.

Voice actor David Wald recently took to X to announce that he will no longer be working with Crunchyroll or returning to voice Gajeel In Fairy Tail.

In a message posted on X, Wald cited ‘abuses that are far too numerous to list’ as the reason behind his departure, teasing that he would reveal details of this in an upcoming broadcast on Twitch.

Friends, I am not returning to #Gajeel in #FairyTail. I am not returning to the @Crunchyroll studio. Their abuses are Far too numerous to list here. But soon, I will tell you all of them, and I will do that here:https://t.co/aopGIjHTln

Stay tuned.

— David Wald (@DavidWald_VA) November 11, 2024

Wald had recently accused Crunchyroll of mishandling fan mail addressed to him over the past five years.

According to previous posts, Wald claimed that Crunchyroll staff had been opening his mail without permission, discarding fan letters,...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has been featured on the cover of the 20th issue of Shogakukan’s seinen manga magazine, Big Comic, which was released on Oct 10, 2024.

The cover highlights Harris with the bold headline, “The World is Watching”.

The message on the cover notes Harris’s rise to power, focuses on her background as a woman of African American and South Asian descent, and also talks about the global expectations surrounding her potential presidential run.

Big Comic is a semimonthly seinen manga magazine published since 18 February 1968 by Shogakukan in Japan. It was originally launched as a monthly magazine but switched to twice monthly on the 10th and 25th beginning in April 1968.

The magazine has published works by several well-known manga artists, including Osamu Tezuka, Shotaro Ishinomori, Sanpei Shirato, Takao Saito, Fujiko Fujio A, Fujiko F. Fujio, and Tetsuya Chiba.

Big Comic also serializes Saito’s Golgo 13,...

Gintama is the epitome of comedy anime, and Hideaki Sorachi often tests the boundaries of censorship and copyrights with it. The mangaka cares little about how it will affect hs series as long as the episode is funny and he gets to attack the anime staff with his clever jabs.

From Dragon Ball and Naruto to One Piece, Gintama has parodied some of the biggest names in the anime world. In fact, Sorachi is not afraid of calling out animation staff, Bandai Namco, and even superiors in the company through Gintoki. Gintama does not break the fourth wall because it simply does not exist in the series.

Gintama’s Aim is to Parody Every Anime on Earth

Let’s begin with one of the biggest anime, Dragon Ball. Gintama The Final, which was supposed to be the last we ever see of Gintama (a blatant lie), begins with a parody of Dragon Ball.

The hierarchy of power in the DC universe is about to change, again. DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran are hitting the big reset button — Warner Bros.' second favorite button after the delete button. While we wait for "Superman" to kick in a new era of live-action DC heroes, the new universe is actually starting this year, not on the big screen, but on TV with "Creature Commandos," based on the comic book team of the same introduced in "Weird War Tales" in 1980 by J. M. DeMatteis and Pat Broderick. The original comic was set in World War II, following a team of weird superhuman monsters in pulpy stories.

The "Creature Commandos" TV show will be set in the new DC universe, directly after "The Suicide Squad" and "Peacemaker." The original team had a Universal Classic Monsters lineup that included a werewolf, a vampire, Frankenstein's monster,...

In many respects, the ‘80s are highlighted as a boom period for anime, something perhaps unwittingly foretold by Mobile Suit Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino in his famous “Anime New Century Declaration” — a promo event for the “Ms Gundam” compilation movie “Mobile Suit Gundam 1” that unexpectedly drew a crowd numbering in the thousands. The event was emblematic of that coming explosion — anime production reaching newfound scale, finding larger audiences in turn, and maturing as both a medium and an industry. It would be a decade that saw more confident spending, bigger original productions, and a much deeper roster as new creators.

In a retrospective piece about the moment, “Anime: A History” author Jonathan Clements wrote that while Tomino would become a figurehead, his “new world order” would belong to the next generation. It would be a dynamic new age defined by works like the famous Daicon III & IV Opening Animations, made...

The Film

Browsing the shelves of Our Price in the 90s, I remember seeing anime for the first time. One of the few things I miss about VHS is the larger cases that allowed for some very cool artwork, and the Manga line of releases were like nothing I’d seen before. Over the years, I ended up seeing things like Streetfighter II: The Animated Movie, Akira and Ghost in the Shell, but one that has evaded me even up to this point is Golgo 13. Having no context for these films, I had no idea that the anime version I saw on those shelves of VHS tapes was pre-dated by a live action adaptation of the manga.

The UK VHS image from Unified Goods

The manga series the film is based on began in 1968, and still runs to this day, even after the death in 2021 of its creator Takao Saito.

Before Speed Racer offered an anime slant to Saturday morning cartoons in the 1970s, and before G-Force or Voltron made kids rush home from school in the 1980s, there was Astro Boy.

Widely considered the original manga comic, Astro Boy was conceived and written by the recognized pioneer of the genre, Osamu Tezuka in 1952.

From the franchise's diminutive launch pad, the endless chain TV anime franchises took flight. Without Tezuka's creation, there's no Lupin III, no Golgo 13, no Ghost in the Machine, no Cowboy Bebop, etc. The strange thing is, some of those TV shows from different eras pack more U.S. pop culture recognition than the franchise that set the table.

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