NUUDE Magazine Fiasco: Suspension and Major Mistreatment of Authors
NUUDE Magazine suspended just after 2 years
BL Web Magazine NUUDE from publisher Tokyo Mangasha started off in July 2020. It featured big-name authors of...
Why Is the Isekai Genre So Popular in Japan?
A brief history of isekai and its popularity
The word isekai (異世界) originally meant “another world” and was also used in reference to foreign countries,...
Will AI generated images replace artists?
How do AI image generators create art images that look so human-made?
Recently, AI-image generators like DALL-E and Midjourney have been making waves on social...
AI-Generated Products Spamming FANZA
AI-generated works flood FANZA. How do they affect artists?
In our very recent article, The Start of AI-Generated Doujinshi, we wrote about the concerning trend...
Smoking Censorship in Manga
Morita Masanori, the manga author known for popular titles such as ROOKIES and Rokudenashi Blues, tweeted that a panel from his previous work has...
Kibayashi Shin: Legendary Mangaka With Seven Names
This dapper man in the picture is a man so renowned in the Japanese manga industry virtually any industry person would know his name....
Comiket 100: Artist Sold 0 Works and Analyzes the Mistakes
An artist by the name of Yokotsuki Reiji wrote a blog about how they didn’t sell a single work at Comiket 100 that took...
Comiket: Do Artists Make Money at the Event?
On August 13 and 14, 2022, the commemorative 100th Comiket (Comic Market) happened in Tokyo, bringing in approximately 170,000 attendees.
Back in 2018, Abema News...
Animators: Why Are They Paid So Poorly in Japan?
In the last few years, we saw Demon Slayer: Mugen Train become the highest-grossing animation in all Japanese film history as well as Evangelion:...
7 Lovey-Dovey Hentai Doujinshi to Warm Your Cold Lonely Heart
Happy Valentine’s Day to you from Irodori Comics! Here are seven lovey-dovey hentai doujinshi to check out! Go off and treat yourself!
From February 14th...