Former Kadokawa Corporation Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa has appealed his bribery conviction while also filing a 20 million yen compensation lawsuit against current Kadokawa President Takeshi Natsuno.
Comic Natalie published the weekly manga volume sales ranking for June 8-14, 2026. The list continues to keep a pulse on the manga market in Japan.
Famous mangaka Ai Yazawa (Nana, Paradise Kiss) and Sapporo Beer are organizing a special collaboration event called 'Ebisu no Bijin-ga to Yoimatsuri'. A summer festival catering to adults with giant beauty paintings, traditional yagura structure, and a summer festival lottery in Tokyo and Nagoya.
The highly anticipated new trailer for the live-action series "Tonight, I Have a Date with a Serial Killer" has been released, and it has been announced that the theme song will be performed by Super Eight.
The romantic manga magazine, which started in 2008 as Monthly HQ Comic and later took the name Harlequin Original, has officially ended publication. The magazine notably hosted manga adaptations of Harlequin novels.
Kadokawa, one of Japan's largest multimedia companies, is going through a difficult period due to the oversaturation of the isekai genre and activist investors trying to influence FromSoftware's fate.
Yen Press has announced six new manga and light novel licenses. The list includes notable works such as *Witches Can't Be Collared*, *Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family!*, *Yamada's Class Diary*, and *Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Chronicle Episode Asfi*.
Syougo Kinugasa's popular series Classroom of the Elite: Year 3 ranked first in Oricon's best-selling light novels list for May 2026. Novel adaptations of anime films followed the list.
Japan has extradited an operator of a webtoon piracy site, who is its own citizen, to South Korea for the first time. The incident is seen as an important milestone in international cooperation on intellectual property violations.
Legendary producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi's studio GPTrack50 has announced that its first game, 'Stupid Never Dies', will be released this autumn for PS5 and PC.
Nihon Falcom’s beloved JRPGs <strong>Trails from Zero</strong> and <strong>Trails to Azure</strong> are launching on September 10, 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5. Additionally, a limited <strong>Crossbell Duology Limited Edition</strong> has been announced.
The new game in the Muramasa series, Muramasa: Revenant Blades, is coming to Nintendo Switch 2, Switch, PlayStation 5, and PC in early 2027.