Variety reports that Bill Kong (producer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero), has signed on to shoot a Live-action english language version of Blood: The Last Vampire. The trend of Live Action Anime continues.

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The Daily Yomiuri has an excellent review of The Push Man, a vintage collection of manga that visits the daily lives of various Japanese men in the 1960’s. It’s a great review about a very different kind of manga.

From the review:
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In one of the weirdest Anime-related statements to ever come out of Japan, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called for creation of a manga Nobel Prize for up-and-coming non-Japanese comic-strip artists as a way to boost the country’s diplomacy….

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