It was awarded the youth manga award of "Mangawa prize" chosen by French middle and high school students. It is also a topic to be placed as a recommended book in the French library. The SF manga of Abi Umeda, "Children of the Whales" which started publishing in the "Monthly Magazine Mystery Bonita" since 2013, became into TV anime and began broadcasting in Japan from this October. This time, it is a feature about the topic work "Children of the Whales", a SF high fantasy which worldwide broadcast is decided in Netflix in 2018!

The anime adaptation of "INUYASHIKI LAST HERO", based on Hiroya Oku's comic which ran for 3 and a half years between 2014 and July 2017, began airing in Japan in October. An unconventional anime with a "dowdy old man for a hero", "INUYASHIKI LAST HERO" is a surefire hit with a live action film also to follow in 2018.

With the rise of the internet in the 2000's, an increasing number of manga have been published as "Web Comics" rather than in print manga magazines which were mainstream until the mid-1990's. Since around 2013, the development of manga apps helped spawn well over 200 web comic sites, even just counting those run by businesses and municipalities, thereby creating a new business model. Many novel and imaginative works have come out of such web comics, gaining popularity particularly among teenagers of the smartphone generation. This time, we look at the current state of web comics in Japan, uncovering what's going on in web comics today and profiling "JINMEN", a web manga that enjoys a massive teenage following.