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Japanese comics and cartoons aren’t just for the nerds, Part 1

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Japanese comics and cartoons aren’t just for the nerds, Part 1

There’s a lot of public opinion that most of the shows and comics coming out of Japan, or even just Asia, are rather badly scripted and for little kids. Much of this opinion seems to be based on whatever was aired on Adult Swim or even Toonami, which really isn’t a good sample of what [...]

New York Anime Festival Report

Monday, September 29, 2008

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This weekend I went to NYAF, the New York Anime Festival, at the Javits Center in New York City. Here is a recap of what went on. There were some license announcements, industry panels, and merchandise to drain the wallet. It didn’t seem as big as last year, but with Geneon gone [...]

FullMetal Alchemist 2 – Confirmed

Thursday, August 21, 2008

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In volume 20 of the manga series FullMetal Alchemist (aka Hagane no Renkinjutsushi), there is an announcement for a second television series. What the series will be isn’t known. I think it pretty much boils down to a continuation from where the movie series left off (most likely) or a series to follow the manga [...]

Jumpland

Monday, August 18, 2008

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For some time now Jumpland has been up and available in multiple languages. One of which is English. This is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Weekly Shonen Jump. Here you can learn about the magazine itself as well as read manga online. So if you are a fan of shonen manga, this is a [...]

Ultimo Becomes an Anime

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

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Back in April, Shueisha’s magazine “Jump Square” had a chapter by Stan Lee and Hirokyuki Takei (Shaman King) called Ultimo. You can actually find it translated in the September 2008 issue of Viz’s magazine, “Shonen Jump“. The anime will be developed by Dream Ranch Japan. Two other projects Stan Lee is involved with is Hero Man [...]

Bakuman Begins! Thoughts?

Friday, August 8, 2008

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Well “Bakuman” chapter 1 is out. To me, it doesn’t seem like it will amount to anything special. I am interested though because it is a different idea. I haven’t read a manga before on someone becoming a mangaka. I hope it lasts because I am for original ideas. It also looks [...]

Bakuman Starts Next Week

Monday, August 4, 2008

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The latest issue of Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump had a preview for a new series called Bakuman. What is Bakuman? It is a new manga from the team that created Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba (writer) and Takeshi Obata (artist). It will start in issue 37-38 of this year’s run of the Weekly [...]