Welcome to the Weekly AniManga Index!✨✨
Every Sunday, this digest brings together the latest posts from independent writers in our community, covering anime, manga, art, original fiction, fandom, gaming, and film. It is free(it always will be), and it exists for one reason: to make sure good writing gets seen.
If you write about any of these topics and want to be listed, please check the post below.
Now, here is what your favorite writers published this week.
My Current Light Novel Reading List - Part 1 — Featuring: My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s and The Apothecary Diaries by N Senpai on Anime & Manga Chronicles | 2026-07-02
THE JUNE JOURNAL 2026 — Musings On Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 by Window Seat Anime Journal on The Window Seat Anime Journal | 2026-07-01
What the Girl Who Saw Monsters Can Teach Us About the World — How Mieruko-chan uses horror to expose the invisible burdens of real-world trauma. by The Anime Analyst on The Anime Analyst | 2026-07-05
In a Country Where Foxes Become Gods — What Kimi to WonderlandTaught Me — ⚠️ This article contains spoilers for all three volumes of Kimi to Wonderland. by Manga Emotion Lab [MATURE CONTENT] on Manga Emotion Lab | 2026-07-01
Making Time for Play — How a Simple Exercise Helped Me Restore Balance to My Life by Kristin Davenport on Awash of Stars | 2026-07-04
Seeing Older Artworks With New Eyes — A conversation between yesterday and today by Sheryl Keen on Keen Kreations Studio | 2026-06-30
Isekai, But Make It Suburbia — A Review of Science, Magic, and Mayhem by Caz Lewis by J. Davis Mallory on J. Davis Mallory | 2026-07-03
Know Your Enemy Before You Fight Him — A Review of The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King by J. Davis Mallory on J. Davis Mallory | 2026-07-02
Joshua Maurise Anderson (1965-2026) — The Ice Cold Water Man of Otakon by Rae Nyx on Nerdy and Thirty | 2026-07-03
Steel Was His Body, War Was His World — A Review of Koutetsu Jeeg (1975) 46 episodes · Toei Animation · Directed by Masayuki Akehi & Tom Matsushita by Coffee with an otaku on Coffee with an otaku | 2026-07-04
Almost Super, Superheroes — Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero review by Coffee with an otaku on Coffee with an otaku | 2026-06-30
Game Save #13 | The Death of Physical Games, State of Star Wars Eclipse by Quantic Dream, Collaborative Article, Community Spotlight, and More! — Taking a look at news about Grand Theft Auto VI and Sony, tracking down Star Wars Eclipse, two amazing creators for the Community Spotlight, collaborative article update, and more! by Joe | The Saved Game [MATURE CONTENT] on The Saved Game | 2026-07-02
The Sound of JRPG Music — In this wonderful genre of games we call JRPGs, there is something special that is like an ever present force walking with you and guiding through the emotional journey of your cha... by Punches and Dragons on Punches and Dragons | 2026-07-03
Witch Hat Atelier: Practical Magic — There has to be a better way to do things. by Josh Sippie on MangaCraft | 2026-07-03
Manga Industry Insights: Adaptations and IP — And where they fit into the manga-scape. by Josh Sippie on MangaCraft | 2026-06-30
Japan’s Fandom Is Now a Trade Show. I Rented the Smallest Booth. — Field notes from Oshi-Katsu EXPO 2026: 130-plus exhibitors, 160 real leads, and the single sentence that reframed my whole company. by Ayano Yazawa on The Oshi Lab(推し活未来研究所) | 2026-07-03
The Boy Who Faces a Cruel World with Wisdom and Resolve, Armin Arlert — This time, I will deeply explore the charm and true nature of Armin Arlert from Attack on Titan. by Beyond the Manga on Beyond the Manga | 2026-07-05
The Gentle Assassin Who Defies Destiny and Seeks His True Self, Killua — This time, I will deeply explore the true nature and charm of a character named Killua from the series HUNTER x HUNTER. by Beyond the Manga on Beyond the Manga | 2026-07-03
The Most Famous Samurai in Japan Was Barely One — The most famous swordsman in Japan left almost nothing behind — so every age since has painted the samurai it needed onto the blank. by Shino｜otaku on Honne: Unpacking Japan’s Untranslatable | 2026-07-03
The Law That Only Works If No One Uses It — At Japan’s largest comics fair, most of what’s for sale is, on paper, illegal — and the publishers being copied show up to recruit. by Shino｜otaku on Honne: Unpacking Japan’s Untranslatable | 2026-06-30
My neon dancer — A queer cyberpunk romance by Mark S, PhD [MATURE CONTENT] on The Three Moons Mythos | 2026-06-29
30. First stop — The Three Moons Mythos, Book 1: A Queen of Light and Shadow by Mark S, PhD [MATURE CONTENT] on The Three Moons Mythos | 2026-06-29
The Earth Abides — Volume 13 by F.P. Dawe (Author) [MATURE CONTENT] on The World of F.P. Dawe | 2026-07-05
Admiral Graves Interview, Part 2: When the Abyss Stared Back — Volume 2.7 by F.P. Dawe (Author) [MATURE CONTENT] on The World of F.P. Dawe | 2026-07-02
Appreciation post for cinematography [86 Eighty-Six] — Sometime in the near future, The Window Seat Anime Journal will publish a long essay on this anime, and I asked them if it would be okay if I shared something related to it too, th... by Mikai Baltazar [MATURE CONTENT] on Mikai’s Pen & Pad | 2026-07-03
AI won’t replace human artists — A thought I had while seeing yet another AI vs. artist argument by Mikai Baltazar [MATURE CONTENT] on Mikai’s Pen & Pad | 2026-07-03
(Output: Fiction) - ABC & 123 — Hidden Voices: Echoes Unheard by TheSyXan [MATURE CONTENT] on Strange Output | 2026-06-30
Pleasant — I don’t get what ‘balmy’ means. by Waka Jejeli on The jelly vault of wobbly stories | 2026-07-05
Moving On — The child in me wants to show you how she is by Waka Jejeli on The jelly vault of wobbly stories | 2026-07-02
STAR-FOWL & THE TIN GHOST Episode 1: “The Half-Remembered Tune” (FREE MINI SERIES) — STAR-FOWL & THE TIN GHOST by Yumes Parlor on Yumes Parlor | 2026-07-05
The Ledger Kaeru Volume Two: The God of the Rope-Bound Well — The Ledger Kaeru by Yumes Parlor on Yumes Parlor | 2026-07-04
That is a wrap on Issue #8. Thank you for being here at the start of something. Every writer in this digest showed up and created something this week. Go give them a read, leave a comment, or just let them know their work was seen. That is what a community looks like.
See you next Sunday!💫
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