43 year old Lee Chi Ching from Hong Kong was won Japan’s first International Manga Award - which manga enthusiast and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called a “Nobel Prize” for manga when he announced the competition last year.

The…

Popularity: 2% [?]

Well, this one takes today’s award for oddest news. Apparently Tokyopop and Kaplan have published a Warcraft-themed manga that features more than 300 words that frequently show up on the SATs and ACTs. I applaud the effort to help kids get their eduma…

Popularity: 3% [?]

GamePro has posted the entire cinematic of opening of the upcoming Transformers game. It’s great. Go watch it. Seriously.

…

Popularity: 2% [?]

ViZ Media and Cartoon Network have teamed up to bring super-popular football (real football, not soccer) series Eyshield 21 to the US of A. The best of this new…

Popularity: 7% [?]

There’s a brand new Vampire Hunter D manga coming out in November, and the publisher just created the web site for it.

T…

Popularity: 5% [?]

Apparently, Marvelous Entertainment’s 2006-2007 financial report reveals that a sequel is in the works for its hit series Gunslinger Girl.

This is one of the most kick ass series around, I’m excited that there will be more. :icon_l…

Popularity: 2% [?]

Bandai Visual has announced that the OVA Freedom will be the first anime to come to the US in a hi-definition format. It’s also being released in the United States first, then in Japan. Does this mark a big change in how the Japanese Anime producers …

Popularity: 2% [?]