In April 2023 Kakao announced a sequel titled Solo Leveling: Ragnarok. The web novel was released through KakaoPage on April 10, 2023. A webtoon adaptation is set to premiere in 2024. Solo Leveling: Ragnarok: The story is set after the…
Solo Leveling: In a world where hunters human warriors who possess supernatural abilities must battle deadly monsters to protect mankind from certain annihilation, a notoriously weak hunter named Sung Jinwoo finds himself in a seemingly endless struggle for survival. Shorten with…
A webtoon adaptation of Solo Leveling was first serialized in KakaoPage on March 4, 2018; it was illustrated by Jang Sung-rak (aka Dubu), the CEO of Redice Studio, who died on July 23, 2022, after suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage. The webtoon’s first season concluded on…
Chainsaw Man is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Its first arc was serialized in Shueisha’s (Shonen manga) magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2018 to December 2020. Its second arc began serialization in Shueisha’s Shōnen Jump+ online magazine in July 2022. Its chapters have…
2023「劇場版 SPY×FAMILY」製作委員会 ©遠藤達哉／集英社 The SPY×FAMILY Code: White anime film stayed at #1 in its fourth weekend at the Japanese box office. The film sold 227,000 tickets for 317,050,130 yen (about US$2.17 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold…
Poetry of Ran: Ran is a “Child of Impurity”, a warrior with the power to exorcise monsters, but only by taking on their curses himself. As a result, he is a toxic figure, shunned by the villagers he defends,…
Unlike 2023, which saw big upheavals in anime streaming, things have been relatively stable for the last year. Crunchyroll remains the most prominent anime platform for British viewers, with other new titles available from Netflix, Disney+, HIDIVE, and Amazon…
Parasyte starts with its money shot. A husband and wife face each other in a dimmed room; then the man’s head splits and unfolds into a Venus fly-trap, with rows of teeth and a half-dozen eyes on stalks. The…
Alpi is a wandering exorcist (or “Soul Sender”), although she is not very good at it. She has only taken on the dangerous job in an attempt to track down her missing parents, who disappeared some years earlier. But…
Great Pretender is a crime-caper series, not unlike Lupin III, but less cartoon-zany. This is a hardboiled show, with sex, drugs and real-world grit; it has bold, unreal colours without feeling lurid; and its character designs are by Evangelion legend Yoshiyuki…
