What do you call it, Otaku diplomacy? First the Japanese government declares manga and anime important national exports and “diplomatic tools”, and now it hosts the world championship in dressing up like anime and manga characters.
To be judged by a panel of anime-related celebrities, the finals are scheduled for August three in Nagoya.
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?
The largest anime/manga convention in the United Kingdom is set to start off on August 8, 2008 (triple eights, for the superstitious folk out there).
And the organizers are giving away two tickets and “nearby accomodation” to the lucky winners of the Amecon ‘08 competition. If you’re over 18 and interested, fill out the stuff and [...]
I love Doraemon, I do. I used to catch the late-night reruns and just laugh, all alone in the silence of a sleeping house.
That said, the 29th installment of this uber-long-lasting franchise has just been announced, and an online trailer released to boot.
Doraemon: Shin Nobita no Uch? Kaitakushi (Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s How Space [...]
Well, well. Just as we here at Anime Comic News were losing our patience, 20th Century Fox releases its first official Dragon Ball poster, shown above.
Pretty basic, pretty obvious with the back-turned-to-us pose and the glowing ball and the pointy (though for my taste not quite pointy enough) hair… but still… pretty damned cool!
The text [...]
The London Barbican will be having a special Osamu Tezuka Season that began on July 18, 1008 and will continue until Wednesday, September 24 of this year.
It will explore Tezuka’s legacy spanning manga and anime, as well as other interesting stuff about the “god of manga” and his influence on today’s stuff. The season will [...]
Okay, so there’s supposed to this live-action film adaptation of the classic Dragonball anime series. It’s on IMDB and all. It just so happens that there are no photos, posters, trailers, leaks, news or anything. Google searches will net you a plethora of fan-made stuff, this mock-up poster on the left included. But so far, [...]
The latest issue of high-falutin’ academic journal Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal included not one, not two, but three separate anime-related scholarly papers. Imagine that, those university types. Hopefully this is a sign that intellectuals can start taking anime as seriously as an other type of film making.
The published papers include “Star-Spangled Ghibli: Star Voices in [...]
The good folks at Viz Media have seen fit to finally make some money off the countless multitudes of anime downloaders on iTunes, and have made Naruto, Bleach and Death Note available on Apple’s iTunes service.
English dubbed versions of the first 25 uncut eps of Naruto, the first 41 Bleach episodes, and the complete run [...]
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Er, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, new character designs for Soul Calibur 4. And so the next batch of me-so-bouncy T&A beauties will be appearing care of:
Hirokazu Hisayuki (My-HiME)
Oh Great! (Air Gear, Tenjou Tenge)
Mine Yoshizaki (Keroro Gunsou, Arcade Gamer Fubuki)
Hiroya Oku (Gantz, Hen)
Yutaka Izubuchi (Lodoss, RahXephon)