It’s a slow Sunday, lazy Sunday so I’ve decided to catch up on a few items in the anime/manga world.

Deb Aoki at about.com write a piece on the upcoming first issue of the Yen Plus manga anthology This Anthology will include a number of Japanese and Original English manga (apparently they’re also being called global manga these days). The popular Soul Eater is included in the collection along with the Maximum Ride manga based on the work of mega-novelist James Patterson.

And here’s an article that talks about, among other things, a movement to create a single Japanese museum for Anime, Manga, and Video Games

From the article:

A National Museum of Manga, Anime and Video Games? Masakazu Kubo is the executive producer at the Tokyo Anime Center, one of the several private and local-government-funded museums that have sprung up over the last few years in honor of Japan’s popular arts of manga and anime. But he nevertheless firmly believes that the national government should establish a new museum for such art forms.

“At the moment, information is spread out around many small institutions. All of the arts — anime, manga and games — are closely related, so they need to be brought together in one national facility,” he said.

So basically he’s proposing that the many scattered museums dedicated to different forms (like the Kyoto International Manga Museum) come together in one big ultra-mega location for otaku to flock to.

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