Bleach still has its fans, believer who are dying to see the final and cataclysmic chapters of the saga given a proper send-off in anime. Good news! Bleach will finally meet its animated end, as a brand new original video animation series will hit screens in 2020. After that, the Thousand Year Blood War story that ended the manga will arrive in 2021.

One Piece, the best-selling manga in history and one of the world's longest-running anime series, is getting the live-action treatment from Netflix and Tomorrow Studios!

Years back, if you wanted manga you had two choices: Either be patient and wait for an official Tankōbon to come along, or you could Shanghai the latest weekly chapter via one of the many scanlation groups doing the rounds back then. For the last decade, one group in particular has been the king of scanlation, and its name was …

Based on Katsuhiro Otomo’s cult classic manga series and directed by him as well, Akira was a groundbreaking mix of animation techniques and narrative at the time, the spark that helped fan the flames for an anime inferno in the west in the years to come. Since then, new Akira content has pretty much been relegated to nothing more than homages to Kanada’s infamous motorcycle slide in other media, but that’s all about to change in the next couple of years.

Shueisha has announced the launch of MANGA Plus, an app that will provide new manga releases worldwide on the same day as their publication in Japan. Even better? It’s all completely free.

The Manga series of the 2000s were defined by action. The shinobi subterfuge of Naruto, the bonkers bankai of Bleach and One Piece’s enduring silliness provided for some fantastic spectacle in the pages of Shonen Jump. The genre is still alive and well, but there’s a new kid on the Shonen block who is giving readers something that they’ve seldom seen: An education. One of the most popular manga series currently out, Dr Stone by Inagaki Riichiro and Boichi is some of the most damn fun you can have with seeing the power of science in a brave new world.

Hollywood is looking to adapt another popular manga property to film. What could possibly go wrong?

Welcome to Critical Hit’s 31 days of horror! It’s the month of spookiness, of frights and jump scares and we’re ready to celebrate! Over the decades, pop culture has managed to create eerie atmospheres, scenes of terror that can’t be contained within a single genre and we’re looking back at the film and gaming maniac moments that had us squirming in our seats. Today, it’s the turn of classic video game Resident Evil 2 to prove to us that boarded up windows are pure evil.