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Welcome to Anime News Network's Fall 2023 Manga Guide! You may have seen one of our seasonal Anime Preview
Guides, where a team of critics writes up each new anime television premiere as it airs at the beginning of a season. Now, doing something like that for manga is tricky - there's no equivalent "seasonal" release schedule for new manga series, so here's what we came up with: a survey across three months' worth of manga releases with a focus on premiering series.
This is an ongoing guide. Every day we'll be updating the guide. We also have a survey of the notable light novel releases from those months, publishing on Saturday!
This guide focuses exclusively on series premieres; we thought that would be the most useful thing to do. Please remember these are reviews of Volume One only – we're not reviewing the whole thing or the digital chapters beyond volume one. If you've read ahead, please try not to spoil things for people in the forums. All reviews use the same rating scale: 1-5, with 1 being the lowest.
Check back every day this week for new reviews, and share your feedback in the forums!
Helping powerful people is just an occupational hazard.― If you're keeping score at home, you already know that The Apothecary Diaries' anime adaptation has been both remarkably faithful to the books and progressing at a pace that indicates that care is being taken with the source material. Given that progression, I fully expect the first half of the upcoming fourth season to cover the contents of n...
After exploring the world of K-Drama, Sylvia and Coop decide to tackle Japan's offerings in the genre.― After exploring the world of K-Drama, Sylvia and Coop decide to tackle Japan's offerings in the genre. The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News Network.Spoiler Warning for discussion of the series ahead. HBO MAX streams Baby Assassins Ev...
Players who've dabbled in other mech games like Gundam Breaker and Armored Core will find that Rogue Orbit feels comfortably familiar.― When Bandai Namco revealed Gundam Rogue Orbit a few months ago, it was poised to be an entry that's meant to bring in new Gundam fans. I interpreted that this would mean Gundam Rogue Orbit would be a more approachable game and a conventional action game. I recently ...
Josh picks up where Jean-Karlo left off to wrap up the Gamescom news.― Hello again, and welcome once more to the latest edition of the column! Gamescom, arguably the world's biggest gaming trade show (even before the ignominious demise of E3), has come and gone, bringing with it announcements and looks at the slate of upcoming titles. Jean-Karlo had some thoughts to share on the abject state of thin...
Koushi's story of bullied student whose 1st love suddenly appears years later― Manga creator Koushi announced on Tuesday that an anime adaptation of Koushi's You Are a Four Leaf Clover (Kimi wa Yotsuba no Clover) manga has been green-lit. The romantic suspense manga centers around Uichi, a once popular student who is now relentlessly bullied in high school. Still, he strives everyday to keep a promi...
The live-action movie of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga tragedy can’t match the anime but is still a moving experience.― Look Back is a perfectly devastating manga volume that already received an excellent anime movie two years ago, so I understand if you're questioning the need to retell the same story in live action. This new adaptation, written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and premiering at the Ve...
More than 300 titles have been added to Manta's catalogue, among them The Apothecary Diaries, Proud to be the Villainess, Daemons of the Shadow Realm, & more.― Manta to Distribute Manga from KADOKAWA and Square Enix GloballyAdds Over 300 Titles From Major Japanese Publishers, IP Slate Expands After KodanshaHit Webcomics, Webnovels and Manga Under One Roof SEOUL, South Korea – Manta, a global conten...
We spoke with Yamada about the anime's unique position as a historical series set in 13th-century Mongolia, and about how she and Góngora traveled to its real-life setting to experience life there firsthand.―
In a season full of artistically striking series and highly-anticipated sequels, Science SARU's Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia stands apart. The series brings together acclaimed executive direc...
"Odeholo" project is part of hololive's 10th anniversary celebration― Kadokawa and Cover Corporation announced during the livestreamed "hololive Next 2026.9.7” special on Monday that Cover's hololive VTuber agency is launching its first television anime project. The project (under the abbreviated keyword "Odeholo") is part of hololive's 10th anniversary celebration, and Studio Kai is animating after...
A new game made especially for old consoles turns out to be a great showcase of 2-D shooter glory.― Old game systems don't really die out. They just hibernate until they're revived by nostalgic designers who build new games with the looks, the atmosphere, and sometimes even the precise technical standards of their favorite consoles. There's no shortage of fresh “retro” titles striving for the aesthe...
Sequel novel series launched in 2022― Dengeki Bunko is listing that Kuji Furumiya's Unnamed Memory -after the end- light novel series will end in the eighth volume on December 17. Kadokawa will publish the seventh volume on November 17. Dengeki Bunko will also publish an art book titled Unnamed Memory Archives -chibi art works- in December. Furumiya (A Pale Moon Reverie, Babel) began serializing the...
Much like how the game's presentation is wasted on the story, these mechanics are wasted on the game's structure.― If there was one word I could use to describe Way Of The Sword, it would be “cinematic”. This game will throw you into gorgeously rendered and directed animated cutscenes every chance it gets. There's a part of me that wonders if this game would function better as a samurai action movie...
