Lolita and Maid Fashion Day at Kinokuniya this weekend
Share this link on Facebook!TweetJust in case you happen to be in NYC this weekend and MoCCA doesn’t cut it for ya, there’s also a big all day event taking place at the Kinokuniya Bookstore: a day of Manga/Anime fashion with a tea party, a movie screening, a reading and more. The New York Anime Festival [...]
Continue ReadingSPEED RACER: And when the odds are against him…
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Wow. I can’t believe the hating being laid on Speed Racer. I saw it this weekend, and loved it. Loved every minute of it. It was creative, imaginative, innovative. It was made with care and love. The characters all had story arcs. The story was laid out one scene at a time [...]
Continue ReadingStop, Speed Racer, Stop
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s no secret that The Wachowski’s SPEED RACER is primed to be the summer’s first big FLOP. Nikki Finke explains: The real problems plaguing this pic occurred not in the marketing but in the production. Oh heck, they started as far back as handing control of the project to the writer-director Wachowski [...]
Continue ReadingThere you go, Astro Boy
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThis weekend in Japan, the Yakult Swallows baseball team wore throwback jerseys in their series against the Tokyo Giants. Back then, the Swallows were called the Yakult Atoms and had an Astro Boy logo on their jerseys. Check it out here
Continue ReadingNYCC: Manga/Anime highlights
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMovie screenings and guests like Justin Cook, Rachael Lillis, Jamie McGonnigal, Sean Schemmel, Mike Sinterniklaas, Veronica Taylor, Tom Wayland, Sean Michael Wilson, Steve Yun, and Tommy Yune highlight the extensive offerings fore the anime/manga crowd. There will be COSPLAY!
Continue ReadingManga 101: Toriyama the great
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet What is the point of a Manga 101? If you are into manga you probably already know it, and if you aren’t you probably think it’s all codswallop anyway. Anyhoo, over at the Del Rey blog, Tricia Narwani explains a fun piece of essential manga history that you can use to amaze [...]
Continue ReadingNYAF has new new dates
Share this link on Facebook!TweetLaunched last year in a problematic December 7-9 time slot, the New York Anime Festival later announced a move to September 12–14, where it would have less competition from Christmas. However, it has just announced a presumably final move to September 26-28, due to scheduling concerns at the Javits Center. While [...]
Continue ReadingStan and Hiroyuki Takei announce team up
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Stan Lee really is EVERYWHERE. Details of ULTIMO, his manga collaboration with Shamen King creator Hiroyuki Takei will be announced at New York Comic-Con. The announcement will be press only, although some fans can win seats at the panel. The series debuts the same day, April 18th, with a 32 page [...]
Continue ReadingThe rise of the manga
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThis is the moment of manga. I mean, I know you all knew that, but it’s not just a fast growing comic book category; when people look back at Aught Nostalgia, this well be remembered as the Manga Decade. Or at least that’s what our link round up tells us: Let [...]
Continue ReadingCartoon is appointed ambassador for Japan
Share this link on Facebook!TweetLovable toon robot cat DORAEMON has been appointed Japan’s cartoon ambassador! Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed the cat an “anime ambassador,” handing a human-sized Doraemon doll an official certificate at an inauguration ceremony, along with dozens of “dorayaki” red bean pancakes — his favorite dessert — piled on a huge plate. Komura told [...]
Continue ReadingCan't we all just get along?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhat have things come to, when even the precocious and eternally cute Hello Kitty is willing to settle a grudge by stepping into the squared circle? The presser: Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, in conjunction with Gente California and SANRIO Co., LTD., will present the first ever professional wrestling match for the Kitty World Order [...]
Continue ReadingBoy dies in Naruto-related accident
Share this link on Facebook!TweetCodey Porter, 10, has died after playmates buried him headfirst in a sandbox — an act inspired by Naruto’s ability to bury himself in the ground. Despite the tragic and horrible circumstances — his friends buried him in fun and didn’t realize he was really in trouble when he [...]
Continue ReadingNew York Anime Fest moves to September for '08
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBased on focus groups and surveys, The second New York Anime Festival will be held this year September 12-14th, significantly earlier than last year’s Dec. 7-9 time frame. According to the calendar at Comic Book Conventions.com there are no real scheduling conflicts with other shows, although it is coming pretty [...]
Continue ReadingIncredible movie promotion
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In Tokyo, a promotion for The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep set on Tokyo Bay is what we could call “pant-peeing good.”
Continue ReadingUnderstanding Otaku
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Last weekend’s New York Anime Festival was an interesting experience to say the least. It was only the second anime show I’ve ever attended (I went to Otakon in Baltimore a few years ago) so the hypotheses I drew from the experience can hardly be called conclusions. I welcome corrections or [...]
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