Go out, Jerboa!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s the real-life inspiration for Pikachu and almost as cute! The very rare and mysterious long-eared jerboa of the Gobi desert has been caught on film for the first time!: The long-eared jerboa, a tiny nocturnal mammal that is dwarfed by its enormous ears, can be found in deserts in Mongolia and [...]
Continue ReadingNYAF Photo Parade Part 2
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This may have been a con too far for The Beat…we’re too tuckered to post anything, but we will run some photos by you, how does that sound? Although we apologize in advance because our camera settings were screwed up all weekend and all the pictures came out dark. Above: An [...]
Continue ReadingWhat you need to know about NYAF
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’ll have our own detailed anthropological observations when we’re not feeling under the weather. However here are facts and figures. § ICv2 interviews the showrunner John McGeary who estimates attendance at 15,000. § IGN reports on Stuart Levy’s amusing activites: Have the Tokyopop convention planners lost their minds? Not really. Rather than do [...]
Continue ReadingNYAF news
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Brigid and various folks have been going to panels and gathering news. Brigid has GO! Comi’s new licenses, ComiPress has Del Rey’s early announcements. Deb Aoki at About.Com has Viz’’s news, which includes new maga by the ceators of Rurouni Kenshin and Death Note. ANN has complete team coverage as well [...]
Continue ReadingNew York Anime Festival — Day 1
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The first day of the inaugural New York Anime Festival was a busy one. Crowds were good for a brand new show on a cold, snowy day, which was, in the end, competing against Christmas shopping. That sounds like damning with faint praise, but there were people throughout the hall all [...]
Continue ReadingICv2 Anime and Manga conference news and notes
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe day began with a tediously long crosstown jaunt over to the Javits Center that took 30 minutes to go 10 blocks. WHY do taxi drivers INSIST on going crosstown on 31st St.? Even a bus moves faster on 34th. I asked my driver and he said 34th was the worst [...]
Continue ReadingThis weekend — NEW YORK ANIME FEST!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re going to spend much of the next four days at the Javits center for the inaugural New York Anime Fest, kicking off today with Milton Griepp’s ICv2 Conference on Anime and Manga. This is a major event from Reed Exhibitions, which also puts on NY Comic-Con (and a sister company [...]
Continue ReadingDear Lord! First Speed Racer pix!
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Continue ReadingAFRO SAMURAI now big in Japan
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAFRO SAMURAI has made the rare reverse commute: the American-produced manag-adaptation anime in now popular in Japan: Okazaki’s strange tale initially failed to attract attention in Japan, where mainstream cartoons feature cute wide-eyed heroines or fighting robots. He sold just a trickle of his Afro Samurai comics in the 1990s, peddling his work [...]
Continue ReadingNY Anime Fest programming up
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe New York Anime Festival is fast approaching (December 7-9) and the programming schedule has just been posted. Even if you’re not a manga or anime fan there’s lot of interest here, including Milton Griepp’s ICv2 Conference on Anime and Manga on the 6th, and panels on Gekiga and other types of [...]
Continue ReadingHow Manga Conquered the U.S., a Graphic Guide to
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Continue ReadingInside the Otaku Generation
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA couple of announcements from the upcoming New York Anime Festival. First the announcement of a number of web guests, and also an ICv2 conference: Pop culture publishing and consulting company ICv2 has announced its first ICv2 Conference on Anime and Manga: “Inside the Otaku Generation” at New York Anime Festival [...]
Continue ReadingKuromi!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We want this. We want this, too. Kuromi is our kind of Sanrio character. * Birthday: October 31 (Halloween). * Personality: Although she looks cruel, she is actually very girly. She loves handsome guys. * Hobby: She enjoys writing in her diary. These [...]
Continue ReadingLayoffs at ADV
Share this link on Facebook!TweetANN is reporting a new round of layoffs at anime company ADV, which just recently started getting back into the manga publishing game: An A.D. Vision (ADV) representative has informed ANN that the company has laid off 13 staff members from various departments of the company. “In October, ADV has laid [...]
Continue ReadingWorld Cosplay teams with NY Anime Fest
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Forget about the US Open, the World Series, or the Westminster Dog Show — New York is about to get a new competition which will knock the world on its Goth-Lolita clad ass: The World Cosplay Summit’s USa Preliminary round is coming to the NY Anime festival this December! The New York [...]
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