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Shota Oni
is a Japanese boy's love manga series written and illustrated by Miyuki Nakayama. It began serialization on NTT Solmare's ''Comic Seymour'' website under Square Enix's ''Gangan BLiss'' boy's love manga brand in September 2021. An anime adaptation has been announced. Media Manga Written and illustrated by Miyuki Nakayama, ''Shota Oni'' began serialization on NTT Solmare's ''Comic Seymour'' website under Square Enix's ''Gangan BLiss'' boy's love manga brand on September 1, 2021. Its chapters have been collected into six ''tankōbon'' volumes as of March 2025. Anime An anime adaptation was announced in the sixth volume of the manga released on March 22, 2025. Reception The series won the award in the Best Next Generation (Newcomer) category in boy's love website ''Chil-Chil''s BL Awards in 2022. See also *''Blend S is a Japanese four-panel comic strip manga written and illustrated by Miyuki Nakayama in Houbunsha's '' Manga Time Kirara Carat'' magazine from 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tankōbon
A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that was previously published in a serialized format. Manga typically contain a handful of chapters, and may collect multiple volumes as a series continues publication. Major publishing Imprint (trade name), imprints for of manga include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other Jump (magazine line), ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Magazine Comics, Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics, and Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion, Shōnen Champion Comics. Manga Increasingly after 1959, manga came to be published in thick, phone book, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology list of manga magazines, manga magazines (such as ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' or ''Weekly Shōnen Jump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy's Love
, also known by its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for a female audience, distinguishing it from the equivalent genre of homoerotic media created by and for gay men, though BL does also attract a male audience and can be produced by male creators. BL spans a wide range of media, including manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television series, films, and fan works. Though depictions of homosexuality in Japanese media have a history dating to ancient times, contemporary BL traces its origins to male-male romance manga that emerged in the 1970s, and which formed a new subgenre of ''shōjo'' manga (comics for girls). Several terms were used for this genre, including , , and . The term ( ; ) emerged as a name for the genre in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of (self-published works) culture as a portmanteau of ''yama nashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square Enix
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational holding company, video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate. It releases role-playing video game, role-playing game franchises, such as ''Final Fantasy'', ''Dragon Quest'', and ''Kingdom Hearts'', among numerous others. Outside of video game publishing and development, it is also in the business of merchandise, Arcade game, arcade facilities, and manga publication under its Gangan Comics brand. The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed in April 2003 from a mergers and acquisitions, merger between Square (video game company), Square and Enix, with the latter as the surviving company. Each share of Square's common stock was stock swap, exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square President (corporate title), president Yoichi Wada was appointed the president of the new corporation, while forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shōjo Manga
is an editorial category of Manga, Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent girls and young adult women. It is, along with Shōnen manga, manga (targeting adolescent boys), Seinen manga, manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and Josei manga, manga (targeting adult women), one of the primary editorial categories of manga. manga is traditionally published in dedicated List of manga magazines, manga magazines, which often specialize in a particular readership age range or narrative genre. manga originated from Japanese girls' culture at the turn of the twentieth century, primarily (girls' prose novels) and (Lyricism, lyrical paintings). The earliest manga was published in general magazines aimed at teenagers in the early 1900s and began a period of creative development in the 1950s as it began to formalize as a distinct category of manga. While the category was initially dominated by male manga artists, the emergence and eventual dominance of female arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy's Love
, also known by its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for a female audience, distinguishing it from the equivalent genre of homoerotic media created by and for gay men, though BL does also attract a male audience and can be produced by male creators. BL spans a wide range of media, including manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television series, films, and fan works. Though depictions of homosexuality in Japanese media have a history dating to ancient times, contemporary BL traces its origins to male-male romance manga that emerged in the 1970s, and which formed a new subgenre of ''shōjo'' manga (comics for girls). Several terms were used for this genre, including , , and . The term ( ; ) emerged as a name for the genre in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of (self-published works) culture as a portmanteau of ''yama nashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in Japan. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ( and ), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazines (also known as manga anthologies) in Japan (equivale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a Anime-influenced animation, similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blend S
is a Japanese four-panel comic strip manga written and illustrated by Miyuki Nakayama in Houbunsha's '' Manga Time Kirara Carat'' magazine from 2013 to 2022 and collected into eight volumes. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation produced by A-1 Pictures aired from October to December 2017. Plot High school girl Maika Sakuranomiya has trouble finding a part-time job because of how scary she looks when smiling. However, she is scouted one day by an Italian man who is also the manager of Stile ( ), a café where its waitresses are given unique traits such as ''tsundere'' and younger sister. Maika is given a sadistic trait because of her looks and has to adopt a dominant and cruel persona when servicing customers, particularly masochistic ones. Characters ; : :Maika is a 16-year-old girl who has a positive and cheerful personality, and unintentionally gains a sadistic look in her eyes whenever she smiles. This look catches the attention of Dino, who scouts her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirits & Cat Ears
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Miyuki Nakayama. Media Factory has published eleven volumes since 23 June 2014. Yen Press has licensed the series in North America on 7 July 2016. The first volume was released in English to North America on 21 February 2017. Plot The story follows Neneko Izuna, a rookie but experienced ''miko,'' and her faithful ''shikigami'' Sagami Shichikage. Neneko and Shichikage moved to Waka Clinic to take a job of exorcising evil spirits. Neneko and Shichikage meet fellow ''miko'' and s''hikigami'' who are also Waka clinic residents. The story follows their ordinary lives and defeating evil spirits as well the love story between ''miko'' and ''shikigami''. Characters ;Neneko Izuna :A shy, small-sized ''miko'' who lived most of her life as a shut-in due to her insecurities on being possessed by the "Kuda-Fox", a familiar used by ''miko'' to possess spirits and said to bring sickness and disease, leading to Neneko to grow two cat-like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime Series Based On Manga
is a hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that are sometimes labelled as anime. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in the following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, or video games. It is classified into numerous genres targeting various broad and nich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangan Comics Manga
Gangan may refer to: * ''GanGan'', Japanese title for '' Aggressors of Dark Kombat'' * Gangan (drum), a West African drum * Gangan, Northern Territory, also known as Gan Gan, a settlement in Arnhem Land, Australia * Gangan, Togo, a village in Togo, West Africa See also * Gan Gan, a village in Argentina * Gan Gan massacre, a massacre of Aboriginal Australians in 1911 * Gangan Comics is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company merged with Square to form Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in ..., a manga imprint of Square Enix * Gangan Verlag, an Austrian Australian publisher * Gungan, fictional species from Star Wars Universe {{dab ja:ガンガン de:Gangan Verlag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Webcomics
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
