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Shueisha’s Toriyama Archive has posted the original draft of the 1990 McLaren cover, which shows the full illustration that other artwork partly covered in print. The draft stays online for 24 hours, and it is the cleanest look at a drawing that has been cropped for 36 years.
Izuku and Ochaco became canon in chapter 431 on 4 December 2024, then again in anime episode 171 on 2 May 2026. Horikoshi says he kept romance out of the main story on purpose and saved it for the epilogue, which is why the same moment arrived three times.
Tapas announced its closure on 1 October 2026, and access to its catalogue ends on 31 March 2027. The 400,000 users who paid for chapters will not get files to keep, because the purchase was a licence to read inside the app. Here is what to check before buying another one.
Demon Slayer’s October announcement is a two-week Giyu and Shinobu summon banner in Seven Knights Re:BIRTH, and the collaboration closes on 29 October 2026. Infinity Castle Part 2 still has no confirmed release date. The gap is being filled by licensing rather than by a trailer.
AD Police Files, the 1990 Bubblegum Crisis prequel, arrives on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on 12 January 2027. A divisive OVA rated 6.6 on IMDb is getting a restoration because the collectors who want it never got a good copy. The extras list shows who the set is for.
One Piece now has five carriers of the Sun God power, and only three of them are Sun Gods in the story. Nika, Joy Boy and Luffy hold the title. Jewelry Bonney copies it through the Toshi Toshi no Mi, and Saint Killingham builds one out of fear with his Kirin.
At New York Comic Con the long delayed new Naruto anime finally arrived, and it turned out to be a four episode crossover with a 1993 manga, made by the original studio with the original cast. That is not a failure of nerve, it is risk management at industrial scale, and the same maths is behind the One Piece remake.
Ranking the versions of Goku by strength settles nothing, because the strongest one has the least character. Ranked by what each story allows him to be, a student, a professional, a mascot, a rerun, a highlight reel, the list gets interesting: the one thing that never changes is what he is willing to give up.
Four Devil Fruits in the whole series touch time, and not one of them is a fighting fruit: one ages a body, one slows a moment, one throws people twenty years forward, one relocates a sniper. That pattern is deliberate. Here is what the four do, the rule Oda never breaks, and why the strongest-fruit arguments keep collapsing.