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Streaming service Crunchyroll is expanding its anime content for fans in India as they announced the launch of Crunchyroll Manga on Thursday (October 8, 2026). The expansion gives fans access to a single destination where they can read and discover manga from leading publishers and seamlessly stream their anime adaptations on the platform.

New York, NY (Wednesday 7th October 2026) During closing remarks at Crunchyroll’s inaugural Crunchyroll Anime Future Forum in New York City, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini announced that Crunchyroll Manga is now available in select English-speaking international markets, bringing hundreds of manga titles from leading publishers to more fans around the world. The expansion gives fans…

World Trigger Vol. 30 debuted at No. 1 on Japan’s weekly manga ranking dated October 12, 2026, with an estimated 114,666 copies sold during the September 28–October 4 tracking period. Nine of this week’s Top 10 titles were new entries, driving combined Top 10 sales to 427,852 copies. Black Butler Vol. 36 was the only…

KADOKAWA Corporation has announced the second edition of the KADOKAWA World Manga Contest. Submissions are officially open from Monday, 7 September 2026 to Sunday, 28 February 2027. This event is designed as a platform for manga creators worldwide who aspire to become professional manga artists and make their commercial debut in Japan.

The Shonen Jump+ editorial department launched a new manga competition, the Shonen Jump+ Next-Generation Heroine Manga Award, on October 8 and began accepting submissions. The award aims to discover characters and works that offer new possibilities for “cute,” with heroines open to any gender, age or form, including non-human characters and even inanimate objects. Kouji…

Monza’s Portuguese player talks about himself in an interview spanning past, present and future

The manga OVERLORD: New World, currently serialized on KADOCOMI, will go on hiatus for the time being as artist Matsuki is hospitalized and will require a period of treatment and rest afterward. Matsuki said the timing of the manga’s return has not yet been decided, but promised that the series will resume once preparations are…

Anime fans in Australia and NewZealand have another reason to spend far too much time on Crunchyroll, with theplatform finally bringing its digital manga service Down Under.

The image generation capabilities of generative AI are constantly evolving, making it possible to easily generate images that look as if they were drawn by human illustrators or manga artists. The Nieman Journalism Lab, a journalism organization at Harvard University, reported that manga generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT included the ‘signature of a real manga artist.’…

Cinderella, the family-friendly show from Théâtre Aux Étoiles, returns to Théâtre de la Madeleine in Paris starting October 17, 2026. Adapted by Rébecca Stella and Danielle Barthélemy and directed by Rébecca Stella, it reimagines the fairy tale with a manga-inspired aesthetic. The production previously played at the Lucernaire in 2023 and 2024.