Viz publishes art books
Just in time to deplete your holiday budget, Viz has announced a series of art books based on such popular properties as NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, FUSHIGI YÛGI and HANA KIMI, as well...
PR: Seven Seas launches light novels
Innovative Seven Seas ads a new line of "light novels", " which are actual novels that are geared towards manga readers, whatever that means.
Seven Seas Entertainment announced today the launch of its all-new...
Movie tidbits
Variety parses the Comic Book Movies/Itochu pact, boiling it down to a wish to make films based on Shotaro Ishinomori's work.
Itochu's interest in the deal mostly derives from CBM's plans to make live-action...
Cartoonist leaps to death
Mangaka Rin Inumaru commited suicide this weekend, apparently worried about her work. She created the character "Ojarumaru" which we weren't familiar with, but Googling reveals it appear to be a popular children's anime, featuring...
Naruto in USA Today top 25
NARUTO continues its relentless assault on the bestseller lists, as it jumps to #21 on the USA Today Booklist, a previously unknown height or a graphic novel. ANN reports:
Naruto volume 11 jumped from #33...
More on Shonen Jump’s yaoi trend
Simon at Icarus Publishing boils down that article on the evolving editorial slant of Shonen Jump that ComiPress linked to last week, and boils it down into something a bit more comprehensible--and illuminating:
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Bandai gets tough with fansubbers
Anime News Network and many other places are reporting a new get-tough attitude from Bandai regarding fan-made translations of their movies, including things like the GHOST IN THE SHELL sequel SOLID STATE SOCIETY:
Several...
Space Otaku shame: fails physical
A first, pioneering effort at cosplay in space has been halted by a shocking development: Space tourist Daisuke Enomoto has failed his physical:
A Japanese businessman seeking to become the world's fourth space...
Queenie Chan on THE DREAMING 2
Queenie Chan has finished THE DREAMING 2 and posts cool header art at her LJ:
The Dreaming (Book 2): Is finished. YAY!!! All 181 pages of it, plus a 3-page mini-manga at the end....
Cons around the nation: Wichita, Seattle
Wichita, KS survives the trauma of cosplay, as the second Anime Festival Wichita draws to a close and a reporter wonders at the ability of people with shared interests to...meet!
More than 2,000 people were...
