Slow news week? Not a lot happening this time! Utada Hikaru, a popular Japanese singer who was on hiatus for six years, returns with her first stop-motion animation music video. The track is called “Hanataba o Kimi ni” (Bouquet for You). Winners for the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards have been announced and include Kiss Him, Not Me by Junko....

KLab and Broccoli are creating another game called Uta no Prince-sama Shining Live. The game will be a smartphone music game to be released sometime this year. The manga P to JK by Maki Miyoshi is getting a live-action film adaptation set to be released spring 2017. According to Anime News Network, “the manga revolves around a first-year high...

Yuki Suetsugu’s Chihayafuru manga is getting another film. The manga is published in Kodansha’s Be Love magazine and has an anime, which you can find on Crunchyroll. Vampire Knight is still not done and will be releasing the first volume of the Vampire Knight Memories manga on June 3, according to AneLaLa magazine. This series focuses on Kaname’s childhood. There...

April showers bring May flowers, and it’s blooming new manga this month!  It’s time to find out what shoujo titles are showing up on shelves in May.  We have The Heiress and The Chauffeur debuting this month – highly recommend that series!! Long awaited volumes of Yotsuba&! and Kimi ni Todoke are appearing as well.  Let’s see what other...

Cardcaptor Sakura is getting a sequel manga series which will launch in the July issue of Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine. It will be set when Sakura starts her first year of junior high school. The manga, Yona of the Dawn, will be on indefinite hiatus due to the recent earthquakes in Japan. Although Mizuho Kusunagi, the creator of the manga, was not...