Archive for February, 2006

Older Anime You May Have Missed - X: the Series

February 26th, 2006 – 4:03 pm
Tagged as: Anime, Naughty stuff

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Sherlock Holmes, doujinshi, and…yaoi?!

February 25th, 2006 – 2:15 pm
Tagged as: Manga, Naughty stuff

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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Another take on Kappa Mikey

February 24th, 2006 – 6:31 pm
Tagged as: General

My little post about Kappa Mikey stirred up quite a bit of controversy…good! The …

Popularity: 8% [?]

Bemmu.com gives Scanlators free manga

February 19th, 2006 – 12:30 pm
Tagged as: Fandom, General, Manga

MangaNews reports that Finnish manga import site Bemmu.com is offering free copies of manga to known scanlator groups. This seems to be an extremely odd move for an import site to support groups that potentially take money out of their pockets, but then…

Popularity: 2% [?]

Anime-inspired Japanese Students

February 18th, 2006 – 9:00 pm
Tagged as: Anime, Fandom

The vast majority of anime fans have picked up some of the Japanese language. Many of the more hardcore fans take fandom to the next level (as they often do) and take formal Japanese language lessons. The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) recentl…

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The life of a mangaka

February 16th, 2006 – 2:35 pm
Tagged as: Manga

Do you think that creating manga would be all cake and ice cream? Well, think again. Kiriko Kubo recently spoke at the Manga Manufacturing exhibition in London. She’s responsible for such manga as Imadoki no Kodomo. At the exhibition Kubo gives detai…

Popularity: 6% [?]

Manga and Tokyopop in the NY Times

February 13th, 2006 – 9:43 pm
Tagged as: Manga

The New York Times has an article about how book publishers are turning to manga to possibly boost sales. Tokyopop is featured prominently in the piece, which I’m sure they’re very happy about.

From the article:

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DragonBall Z Live Action!

February 11th, 2006 – 10:32 am
Tagged as: Anime, General

Nozomi Online has an interesting article about the props for the upcoming Dragon Ball Z movie. Actual filming has yet to start, but it looks like the props will be decent at least.

Sutek Inc. has been tasked with the job of creating the…

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Death Note Filming!

February 10th, 2006 – 9:26 am
Tagged as: Anime, General

Fangoria has further information on the upcoming Death Note Live Action movie. Filming has officially begun, and the director is Shusuke Kaneko. The Shinigami will apparently be portrayed in CGI and animatronic versions as well.

There…

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An Evening with Shinichiro Watanabe

February 9th, 2006 – 8:07 am
Tagged as: Anime, Fandom

In the beginning of February there was an event held in Detroit that was highly anticipated for months. Those who had tickets were excited, those who could not attend cursed their luck. For two hours the international audience for the event was thrille…

Popularity: 11% [?]