I didn’t know about rakugo before I’d read the Akane-banashi manga from Viz Media. Sure, I probably saw it come up in some anime or game, but didn’t recognize it for what it was. I didn’t pinpoint the ...

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Since Akane-banashi debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump, both MangaPlus and Viz Media offered chapters of the manga in English weekly, but there’s no confirmation about any company picking up the anime yet.

An anime adaptation has been revealed for writer Yuki Suenaga and artist Takamasa Moue’s acclaimed rakugo manga Akane-banashi. The series, which currently runs in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, is ...

While Akane-banashi may lack epic sports battles, demons, or monsters, it’s still one of Shonen Jump‘s most exciting series. The manga fallows Akane, the daughter of a failed rakugo artist, as she ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. I started reading Akane-banashi because I didn’t want to start a manga that was hundreds of chapters long. I thought that I’d be able to briefly ...

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