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Title: Art of MANGA
\ Dates: Sep 27, 2025 – Jan 25, 2026
\ Venue: de Young Museum, San Francisco
\ Organizers: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
\ Cooperation: KADOKAWA, Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, Fujio Productions, and 10+ publishers/studios.

“Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu” ended in this week's issue of Shonen Sunday, 2025 No.9. This is the cover of the issue featuring its main character.

The final volume (37) will come out on March 18th.

From the article:

Crunchyroll announced during Sony's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) press conference on Monday that it will launch a new manga app named Crunchyroll Manga later this year as a premium add-on to its subscription service. The app will launch first in English in the United States and Canada, but other language options and web browser integration are planned.

From the article:

Best Selling (either LN or manga):

1. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation vol. 26 (light novel)
2. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 vol. 7 (light novel)
3. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 17 (light novel)
4. The Eminence in Shadow vol. 5 (light novel)
5. Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs vol. 11 (light novel)
6. Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro vol. 16 (manga)
7. The Apothecary Diaries vol. 1 (light novel)
8. Reincarnated as a Sword vol. 14 (light novel)
9. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? vol. 18 (light novel)
10. Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! vol. 8 (light novel)

Best Selling Manga:

1. Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro vol. 16
2. Gushing Over Magical Girls vol. 9
3. Chained Soldier vol. 6
4. This Is Screwed Up, but I Was Reincarnated as a GIRL in Another World! vol. 9
5. To Sir, Without Love: I’m Divorcing You chapter 3
6. Oshi no Ko vol. 4
7. How to Treat

Two asteroids were named this time relating to the manga: Quro, the artist, and Hoshizaki, the high school in the manga. They were discovered by the COIAS team, the app which allows users to help identify asteroids from images from the Subaru Telescope, and which itself is named after the manga. They have previously identified the asteroid Ao, named after the main character of the manga.

From the article:

Manga artist and politician Ken Akamatsu was appointed Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Reconstruction on Wednesday, November 13 as part of an emergency cabinet meeting of newly elected Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's second cabinet

From the article:

This year's 45th issue of Akita Shoten's Shōnen Champion announced on Thursday that Toshinori Sogabe's Yankee JK Kuzuhana-chan (Delinquent High School Girl Kuzu-Hana-chan) manga will go on hiatus due to the creator's health. The series will resume serialization in the 49th issue on November 7.

From the article:

The 166th and final chapter is scheduled for November 14 in this year's 50th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine. The 16th and final compiled book volume will ship in Japan on December 18.

From the article:

numerous actions by the editing staff lead to a breach of trust between the editing staff and the original creator (Enoshima)

These are detailed further down in the article:

there were incidents of the vertical-scrolling version of the manga being uploaded without going through the proper oversight and permissions, lack of oversight from the original creator regarding the approvals for the compiled book volumes and the special bonus goods, and frequent communication delays with the original creator, all causing the manga creator Sakaki to halt their drawing of the manga. The editorial staff also admitted to leaks regarding the franchise's media mix plans, which finally led to Enoshima terminating the licensing contract around the end of April earlier this year.

For those curious, here is the mangadex page for the series. The raws end at cha

This occurred in Brevard, FL. The complaint was lodged by a member of the community. From the article:

A person in the district challenged the book's inclusion in the schools' libraries on the grounds that "sexual orientation should not be encouraged, suggested, or implanted" in the youth.

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The complaint also included concerns children would be "exposed to age-inappropriate, obscene, explicit content" and that there was "no value in making homosexual books available at school." The book is rated for T for Teens.

The most insane part of this to me is that the chair of the school board also took aim at the right to left reading direction of the series (you know, like every other manga in existence) as well as it including a romantic relationship (like the vast majority of fiction):

Board Chair Megan Wright objected to the book's content due to its focus on a romantic relationship, as well as the Japanese reading format of reading the book from right-to-left.

In a major announcement made during Shueisha’s Jump Press livestream on Aug 19, 2024, it was revealed that Yoshihiro Togashi’s Hunter x Hunter manga will be returning to the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump in this year’s 45th issue, set for release on Oct 7, 2024.

This marks the first new chapter in nearly two years since Hunter x Hunter went on a hiatus following the release of chapter 400 in December 2022.

Also see this English post about the Japanese Senator visit.

Context: In the past year there were pressure from VISA and Mastercard on shops selling content that can be considered adult; several sites tried to appease them by imposing restrictions on creators, but ultimately VISA and Mastercard stopped doing business with them (or vice versa), thus stopping those shops' ability to accept those forms of payment.

DL.Getchu.com is a Japanese shopping site for doujin manga, and was one of the shops that stopped (or was forced to stop) taking VISA and Mastercard. (Others shops include Toranoana, DLsite, FANZA doujin etc.)

People were concerned about these issues' impact on the freedom of expression. Several days ago, Japanese Senator Yamada Taro went to VISA HQ and confronted executives there. According to him, he was told (machine translation from the news article) "VISA headquarters does not make value judgments on the content ha

Since we had a thread about Tachiyomi removing extentions I thought this might also be relevant.

Text version:

Tachiyomi, under the guise of 'legitimate' open-source development, has been seriously infringing on the copyright of manhwas worldwide.

We have collected personal details of most individuals involved in this project and plan to proceed with strong legal and institutional response against over 100 forked GitHub pages.

For the official English versions of KakaoPage/Kakao Webtoon, please enjoy them on Tapas!

Be Official, Be Legal Readers.

Not sure how many contributors were involved in Tachiyomi itself but it looks like they'll be aiming for any forked projects as well.

Time to break out GitHub's developer defense fund?

I know Tachiyomi (and associated forks) are a popular way to browse and read manga within the community (myself included). This change means that the Tachiyomi app will no longer include access to installation of all but a select few extensions. Specifically, the only extensions allowed going forward are the "bring-your-own" services. You can see the new extension list here.

Based on some of my searching, this change seems to be in response to the threat of legal action by Kakao Entertainment (a Korean webtoon company). Tachiyomi had recently removed a couple extensions from their app (mangadex being one of them), but this change is sweeping.

Going forward, if you have extensions currently installed on your device, they are going to stay there, but will no longer be maintained. So, if something breaks for the service it is communicating with, then the whole thing breaks.

The latest version of Tachiyomi added the ability to add external extension