What a great weekend for manga fans! On Friday, September 25, publisher Yen Press took to X to announce 19 new licenses. This includes audiobooks and light novels too. From mystery to BL, GL to isekai, there's a little bit of something for everyone. Which titles are you most looking forward to? Mirai (Audiobook) Little Kun isn’t too happy about the latest addition to his family.

Korean entertainment giant Kakao is shutting down Tapas, their North American webtoon platform, leaving creators and readers devastated and an uncertain future

This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers Draw This, Then Die!, Between the Lines, and My Mom is Easily Flustered.

Here we are again! Another anime season upon us. This season we have so many returners, like The Apothecary Diaries and Black Clover. I'm so excited for Magic Knight Rayearth and Firefly Wedding. What are you looking forward to? September 26 A Wild Last Boss Appeared! Season 2 (WAO World) *Early premiere An MMO gamer awakens as the Black-Winged Tyrant, Lufas Maphaahl, rising from her sealed fate—only to find this is very real.

Wake up friends, a new ufotable produced movie is coming our way! Crunchyroll announced today, September 10, that it has acquired the theatrical rights for Witch on the Holy Night. The adaptation is based on the visual novel by TYPE-MOON, the company behind the Fate series. The film is animated by ufotable, known for the massive hit Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba…

I'm not exaggerating when I say that I mourn the loss of Futekiya almost every single day. Their extensive BL catalogue was unmatched and some of those titles are just not available anywhere else in English. A lot of the titles were older too, so I don't have a lot of hope that they'd be license in English print any time soon.

Another Korean webcomic and novel series is getting an anime! Crunchyroll announced today, September 9, that SSS-Class Revival Hunter is receiving an anime adaptation that is set to premiere in January 2027. The anime will stream on Crunchyroll. They also released the first teaser trailer and visual. A mysterious tower crawling with monsters has suddenly appeared, drawing Hunters willing to risk their lives for glory and riches.

If you've been waiting to see Ninja Scroll on the big screen, here's your chance! HIDIVE and Iconic Events Releasing are bringing this new 4K adaptation to about 600 theaters in the US and Canada. The movie will be available in English Dub and Sub on October 4, 5, and 7. When Jubei saves a young ninja woman from the unthinkable, he assumes that’s the end of it.

One of my favorite panels this year was the GKIDS panel! If you know me, you know I am the first in line to watch an anime movie on the big screen. And thanks to GKIDS, I've been able to watch so many of the Ghibli catalog and new movies in theaters. This panel was a celebration of all the great animation GKIDS has been able to bring to American theaters along with some BTS on their physical media process.

It is a good time to be a romance fan! During their Anime NYC panel, Kodansha announced some of their digital titles coming to print. I've been wanting to read Changes of Heart and Matcha Made in Heaven for some time so I'm excited to be owning those soon. And of course, they had a BIG announcement that fans were not expecting!

Wonderful Wednesdays is back! On August 5, Seven Seas Entertainment followed up their Yaoi Day announcements with 7 new manga licenses. Wandmaker of the Ruined World (Manga) by Hagane Kurodome, Nori Kazato, and Kayahara When a global blackout wipes out electricity overnight, shut-in inventor Ori Kenshi finds his carefully isolated life in the mountains of Okutama turned upside down. A mechanical genius who prefers machines to people, Kenshi once made a quiet living crafting intricate devices and anime weapons from his workshop.

It being Yaoi Day means it's one of the days BL publisher SuBLime Manga makes new manga licenses announcements! This year the publisher announced three new titles. Robin at the Break of Dawn by Fumi Tsuyuhisa From the creator of Palace of the Omega comes the continuation of the supernatural mystery-romance series where ancient rituals mean life or death! Cake Dog Caramelized…

Happy Yaoi Day to those who celebrate! Today publisher Seven Seas Entertainment surprised fans with four new license announcements in honor of Yaoi Day! For those who don't know August 1st, aka 8/01 is known as Yaoi day since yaoi is also known as "801." How freaking cute! Kitayama and Minamiya: Our First Year of Dating by Sugar Satoh When Minamiya—a high schooler hooked on his own perverted fantasies—meets Kitayama at their BL Mart job, he finds it impossible to imagine what the handsome university student might look like in bed.