Articles by Yung Namahage
Japanese World Expo Unveil Strange Logo, Inspires Stranger Fanart
The official logo for the upcoming World Expo in Japan has been revealed and, as you can see above, it's kind of a mess.Organized by the Bureau of International Expositions, World Expos are held in a different country usually every five or so years. They give different nations a chance to showcase their culture to the rest of the world along with a unique theme. Osaka's 2025 expo ...
Act-Age Artist Makes First Public Comment After Cancellation
Drawing a series published in the country's biggest weekly manga magazine is a dream for many, but became a reality for Shiro Usazaki at the bright young age of 20.Act-Agewas fast becoming one of the more popular recent series inShonen Jump, with a planned stage play and even rumors of an anime adaptation. But after the manga's writer was arrested for the sexual assault of two junior ...
Summon a Sexy Elder God in Sucker for Love
In Japan, sex and tentacles have been entwined with each other for 206 years, since Hokusai printed a woman getting it on with a couple of octopi onto a block of wood. Meanwhile in the west, tentacles have been synonymous with horror since 1926, when HP Lovecraft manifested his fear of the sea into words and gave the world the terrible dragon-squid-god thing called Cthulhu. I'm ...
Shonen Jump Readers Petition for Sexual Violence Warnings in Manga
A man named Manabu Sekiguchi has started a petition directed at Shueisha, the parent company ofShonen Jump.Titled "We men are not wolves. Please distinguish the difference between "eroticism" and "sexual violence" in Shonen Jump," Sekiguchi is demanding for the company to put content warnings or explanations in manga that contain scenes of sexual violence. He also wantsJump to launch ...
ComicFesta Announce Another Ecchi Romcom Anime
I can't help but appreciate the work ComicFesta put into their shorts. Most streaming services put out an anime once and call it a day, or save the uncensored version for physical releases. But ComicFesta have a tendency to release a series twice: the regular TV version, and the uncut "premium" version released online with a different voice cast operating under psuedonyms, so you ...
Learn Your Place and Submit to Mistress Freyja
For some reason, a lot of eroges I see these days tend to feature a dominant male/submissive female dynamic. Themes of rape, mindbreaking and other BDSM kinks are more often than not shown with a girl on the receiving end. This is valid, of course, but what about us submissive guys that just wanna be bullied and bossed around by a powerful dominant woman?That's whyStories of Submission: ...
Dancing Robot Waifus - Now on Sale!
Living in the present makes it easy to forget that we're also living in the relative future of the past. We've chronologically surpassed so much speculative fiction, and what do we have to show for it? We don't have the cool tech and fashion sense of things likeAkira or lifelike robots such as the replicants fromBlade Runner, and sadly no hoverboards as predicted byBack to the Future. ...
Arrested Act-Age Author Planned Peeping Tom Bathhouse Manga
AfterShonen Jump officially droppedAct-Ageafter the arrest of disgracedmanga writerTatsuya Matsumoto(AKA Tatsuya Matsuki), a number of his old tweets have surfaced that are now a bit more painful to read after his very real sexual harrassment of two teenage schoolgirls.In January 2017, beforeAct-Ageeven began, he said:“Manga and movies about sento [shared bathhouses] are popular ...
Shonen Jump Drops Manga After Creator's Sexual Harassment Arrest
For decades, Shueisha'sShonen Jump magazine has been synonymous with the biggest names in manga, and by extension, anime. There are entire video games made up of superstar characters from various beloved series that started in the magazine, so you could imagine they'd be pretty protective of their reputation.Case in point: Tatsuya Matsumoto, AKA Tatsuya Matsuki, the author behind ...
Hentai Veteran Studio Arms Declares Bankruptcy
Common Sense, the official company name for the anime studio Arms, held a shareholder meeting on May 31 of this year, where they decided to file the company for special liquidation. They went ahead with this plan on July 22, and were officially reported as bankrupt by credit researchers Tokyo Shoko Research earlier this week.Originally formed in 1996 as a spin-off from Studio Kikan ...
