The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) announced today that the short story Vampire Hunter D: The Wanderer’s Ship by legendary author Hideyuki Kikuchi will be published inside the festival’s Official Guide Book. Vampire Hunter D: The Wanderer’s Ship has never been printed before in any language anywhere in the world. The New York Anime Festival, […]
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I stumbled on this one while poking through some RSS feeds. There’s a site out there called FaceYourManga that allows you to supposedly create a cute digital version of yourself in manga/anime art style using their online interface. I’m not quite sold on it though. It doesn’t quite look like manga to me. […]
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Here’s an interesting item that should be in every cosplayer’s arsenal. These are contact lenses that are tinted prominently in the extra-wide outer ring. The result is the appearance of a bigger, wider iris. Anime eyes FTW.
The lenses cost $30-$50 bucks and can even be made to fit your prescription. They’re made by […]
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A friend sent me a YouTube vid of a great figurine vid. This is really quite an amazing job. It’s some of the best amateur stop-motion animation I’ve ever seen. But I’m also impressed by the sheer amount of free time this person must have. There’s a whole series of these […]
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This is just cool:
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This is an old report, but I just stumbled upon it. UK magazine the Guardian had a piece on a manga-themed cafe in Tokyo. The theme? Shonen-ai/Yaoi (boys-love), with pretty male waiters dressed as schoolboys.
More than 100 men, mostly aspiring actors or models, applied for the 30 or so positions at […]
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NPR has an interesting little piece on their site today. They chatted with an unexpected group of manga fans at Comic-Con ‘08: librarians.
From the article:
David Serchay, a Florida librarian, received funding from the Broward County Friends of the Library to attend Comic-Con. He says libraries are paying attention to manga because the […]
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News and media from Anime Expo 2008 keep popping up on the interwebs. I have a few more links and videos to share. Here’s video of celebrated actor and voice of Solid Snake, David Hayter, on MGS4 and other things.
The Los Angeles Times covered the Masquerade cosplay event (woo, mainstream), here’s a link […]
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These aren’t the greatest pics since I only had my iPhone on me, but hey, it’s something. There were quite a few things to take pictures of during the show, but I was a little disappointed at the perceived attendance. Didn’t seem as packed as I expected.
Anyways, on to the pictures:
The obligatory Stormtrooper […]
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The most pleasurable part of my trip to Anime Expo today was the FUNimation Industry panel. Adam Sheenan, Brand/Events Manager at FUNimation and ever-present representative of FUNi at various cons, led the panel with FUNimation CEO Gen Fukunaga coming in at the end for questions. Fukunaga rarely does panels so it was a treat to […]
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