David C. Ward is senior historian emeritus at the National Portrait Gallery, and curator of the upcoming exhibition “The Sweat of their Face: Portraying American Workers." Fifty years after his ...

Publisher kawaiinium and developer Frontier Works have announced a remastered version of the Lump of Sugar-developed romance visual novel Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity for Switch and PC (Steam). It ...

Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Washington Post and the author of "The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals and Breakthroughs in Modern Art." He worked at the ...

The visual novel about saying goodbye comes to the Switch. Once Again, developed by RB Wolf Games, first launched for PC via ...

The Apothecary Diaries was the best-selling light novel of 2024, with over 1.3 million copies sold. Haikyuu!! had a special chapter released in 2024, adding to its widespread popularity.

In the Tenkai Ward, where the restless skyline rises above Tokyo Bay, gangsters with supernatural powers known as “Jingi” are engaged in bloody battles of life and death. The protagonist Sho ...

After a pandemic boom and a post-pandemic bust, the comic book and graphic novel industry came roaring back in 2024. Many of the biggest and best books from the Big Two (aka Marvel and DC) were re ...

Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Washington Post and the author of "The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals and Breakthroughs in Modern Art." He worked at the ...

These novels typically feature richly detailed worlds, a compelling central romance and fantastical themes like magic, mythical creatures or epic adventures. Common themes include forbidden love ...

Which manga and light novels kept you turning pages, chapter after chapter? Anime News Network's critics narrowed down their must-read lists to find the best series, both new and continuing ...