Today’s Del Rey Manga newsletter contained a special alert urging fans to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in its efforts to defend a manga collector from federal prosecution for possession of manga that the government claims to be obscene.
Del Rey Marketing manager Ali T. Kokmen sent the newsletter. Here’s some excerpts:
CBLDF Executive [...]

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Today I stumbled upon an interesting and well-written article on the subject of transgendered characters in manga. I’ve always found this a strange and yet surprisingly popular aspect of Japanese manga culture, and I’m happy to see someone write intelligently on the subject.
From the article at The Pitcher
As early as in the 80’s [...]

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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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Recently, Adult Swim aired episode 12 of Code Geass, in which a female character tastefully but obviously…uh…masturbates. Anime forums all over the interwebs exploded in a flurry of activity, mostly expressing shock, some hilarity, and a tiny bit of disgust here and there.
But Code Geass was not the first non-hentai anime to explore the [...]

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I haven’t been doing a lot of posting recently since I’ve been swamped with work. To make up for it, I figure I’ll give a little to love my somewhat neglected hentai section.

In my travels throughout the interweb I stumbled upon a fa…

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Okay folks, I can tell by the stats that my yaoi articles are generating quite a lot of interest so I might as well keep pandering to my fans, ne? Today I’ll be listing a buttload (hehe) of yaoi resources for those of you who are into that kinda thing….

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Calendarlive.com, a division of the LA Times, recently had an article about fanfiction or “non-canonical” stories that expand the Sherlock Holmes stories. In this article, the author references similarities with doujinshi and Yaoi. I never really tho…

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There’s yet another anime that’s being adapted to live action. The latest news from Variety reports that the directors for the Hollywood version of Kite have been chosen. Kite is probably the oddest choice of all the anime series being adapted to fil…

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In this post we’ll review Loveless. Loveless is one of the few shonen-ai manga that has been adapted into an animated series. It’s a well produced anime, with great art, great characterization, and a great soundtrack by Yuki Kajiura. Th…

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