The Napa Valley Museum in Northern California is opening a new anime and manga exhibit. If you’re in the area today (on a wine tour or something), you should go to the opening reception:
“The Napa Valley Museum announces its upcoming exhibition titled, “Manga and Anime: An Exhibition of Popular Cartoon Art.” The opening reception […]
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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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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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Brad Pitt’s movie production company, Plan B, has picked up the rights to a four-volume OEL manga series by Mark Crilley titled Miki Falls. I do believe this is the first time an OEL title has gotten mainstream attention. It’s especially interesting since it’s going straight to the big screen via a fairly […]
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My good friends and comrades at IGN got a chance to do a brief but interesting interview with Bleach manga creator Tite Kubo at Comic-Con ‘08. You won’t find too much new info here, but Kubo rarely speaks to American media so it’s a bit of a special thing. You can read the IGN interview […]
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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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So yesterday I posted a video of Fairy Tail manga creator Hiro Mashima doing funny fan signings. Here’s another video from Comic-Con 2008 of Hiro Mashima, this time doing a speed drawing of Natsu, the main character from Fairy Tail. This was at the Hiro Mashima panel hosted by Del Rey manga. […]
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Here we see Hiro enjoying his fans very much as he signs art and stuff. Seems like a fun guy, and the fangirls on the web are drooling over him.
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I was walking home from the bank yesterday and laid eyes on a manga-like cover on one of the newsstands for the local freebies. My interest was piqued, so I investigated. Turns out that OEL manga producer Seven Seas Entertainment has partnered with MetroMix to launch an exclusive weekly manga series called Ninja Diaries. […]
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Bandai made a fairly interesting announcement at San Diego Comic-Con: they’ve licensed the Lucky Star manga.
Lucky Star is kind of a plotless series that revolves around comic slices of the high-school life of four Japanese girls. It’s very popular in Japan for some reason, some believe that’s because of its similarity to The […]
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