Back to Basics: A New Dragon Ball, One Piece Anime

By gia on April 20th, 2008   Anime, JP News, News, OVAs

Oh, beloved Google alerts. Picked up word on Muhyojo that a brand new Dragon Ball anime is going to be announced in volume 21 of Weekly Shounen Jump, along with a new One Piece anime.

But before you get all excited about new TV shows– it’s just short specials, coming out this fall as part of a Shounen Jump tour, though it may also be televised eventually.

Prince of Tennis to End; Fangirls Everywhere Seek New Bishounen

By gia on March 3rd, 2008   JP News, Manga, News

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The newest chapter of Prince of Tennis will be its last, according to iza!, who credits the “BL boom” to the series (and that’s probably not an inaccurate assessment).

The manga, by Takeshi Konomi, has been serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shounen Jump since July of 1999, and the issue that contains the final chapter of Prince of Tennis just hit stands today. In spite of being a shounen series, it was probably more popular with women than men, who yaoi’d the hell out of it.

Given its popularity, it should be no surprised that the manga has been adapted into a 178-episode anime, three OVAs, two anime movies, a live-action movie, a bunch of video games, and fifteen stage musicals. Eep.