In their continuing efforts to use manga and anime as ambassadors, the Japanese government once again hosted their International Manga Award ceremonies this week. The awards feature and celebrate the works of manga artists outside of Japan.
Manga artists from Hong Kong, France, Russia and mainland China received awards from the Japanese Foreign Ministry on [...]
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Back in 1997, a manga about a vicious vampire hunter named Alucard began. Now, on August 30th, the last issue of the manga in Young King OURs magazine brings the immensely popular series to an end.
Mangaka Kouta Hiran began the series with a vision of a dystopian, alternate world where a powerful and clandestine [...]
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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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