Hiroyuki Kageyama, an unemployed 20 year old man from Kakogawa City in Japan, was arrested for making online threats against Comic Market (also known as Comiket) doujinshi convention.
Kageyama posted the threat on popular online message board 2channel, stating that he was going to toss a grenade at the convetion site.
In repsonse to the threat, the [...]
The folks at Digital Manga Inc. have built a reputation as innovative, out of the box thinkers willing to take a risk on their products. Emanga.com, their latest project, is no different. Basically, you read sample pages for free, or pay for a limited rent, or pay bigger for unlimited reading. All over the internet, [...]
If you’re around London or if you know any anime or manga fans from around that area, tell them to check out the exhibitions at St. John’s Wood Library and the Westminster Reference Library. There will be talks, traditional Japanese music and dance, a little bit of origami, and a whole lot of anima [...]
Hayao Miyazaki’s first full-length feature film in four years, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, is still at the top of the cliff, so to speak, of Japanese cinema this past weekend, beating out Kunihiko Yuyama’s Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl: Giratina to Sora no Hanataba Shaymin, the 11th installment in the venerable (and [...]
Well here’s something you don’t hear very often… an American product being exported into Japanese comics, rather than the other way around.
The hit computer-generated animated flick Kung Fu Panda was recently adapted into a manga and released in Japan.
Now if that manga gets picked up in the States, what would you call it?
Shamo is a ultra-violent crime manga drawn by Akio Tanaka and written by the series’ credited creator, Izo Hashimoto. It started in 1998 but came to an indefinite halt in January this year.
Last week Tanaka filed US$1.4M suit against Hashimoto, claiming that he, Tanaka, is the rightful creator of the story and character concepts.
A [...]
In no particular order:
- There’s the Shonen Jump Fifth Anniversary Collector’s Edition, chock full of manga, articles, essays, interviews with top Shonen Jump mangaka like Kishimoto, Toriyama, Kubo and Oda, and even a free Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card.
- There will also be a bunch of Naruto novelettes (with, like word-type text in them!) , with [...]
If you’re a fan of Rave Master, Monster Hunter Orage or Fairy Tail, have I got news for you. The manga creator of those manga/anime series, the prolific Hiro Mashima, will be paying a visit to Comic-Con International San Diego 2008 on the last weekend of July.
If you remember, Mashima is such a hit stateside [...]
Harukana Machi E (”Distant Neighborhood”) by Jiro Taniguchi is one of the best manga I’ve read. A heartwarming meditation on childhood and growing up, with a kind of magical realism-time travel twist.
And now it’s been bought up by Belgin film outfit Entre Chien et Loup for adaptation into a live action film directed by [...]
Are you planning to go to Anime Festival Orlando IX at the at the Wyndham Orlando Resort this August? If so, get a bunch of friends together, shoot a 3-minute clip that answers the question, “How Do You Plan To Get To AFO?”, post it up to YouTube, and you could win over $200 in [...]