Curated category
Comedy anime and manga
- NarutoIn 1995, Shueisha published Karakuri, a one-shot manga by Masashi Kishimoto. This early work earned an honorable mention in the 1996 Hop Step Award.
- Dead LeavesHiroyuki Imaishi directed the 2004 Japanese animated science fiction film Dead Leaves. Production I.G created the animation while Manga Entertainment handled…
- Dragon Ball ZKazuhiko Torishima, Akira Toriyama's editor for Dr. Slump and the first half of Dragon Ball, felt that the Dragon Ball anime's ratings were gradually…
- Panda! Go, Panda!The Japanese government announced a loan of giant pandas to Ueno Zoo in September 1972. This diplomatic gesture from China sparked an immediate cultural…
- Crayon Shin-chanYoshito Usui introduced Crayon Shin-chan to readers in 1990 through Weekly Manga Action, a publication by Futabasha. The character first appeared as a…
- Cat SoupNyata, an anthropomorphic kitten, lies in a bathtub after accidentally drowning. His sister Nyaako leaves the house holding hands with Jizō, a psychopomp…
- K-On!Kakifly began writing K-On! in 2007, releasing the first chapter in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara magazine during May of that year.
- KonoSubaKazuma Satou, a Japanese teenage shut-in known as a NEET, dies in an untimely and embarrassing manner. He meets Aqua, a goddess who offers to reincarnate him…
- My Neighbors the YamadasIsao Takahata directed My Neighbors the Yamadas in 1999 for Studio Ghibli. The project began as an adaptation of Hisaichi Ishii's Nono-chan manga series.
- Mind Game (film)Masaaki Yuasa directed the 2004 film Mind Game with a specific visual strategy in mind. He told the Japan Times that he did not want to tell the story…
- Lucky Star (manga)Kagami Yoshimizu began writing a four-panel comic strip in December 2003. The series appeared in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq magazine that month.