Japan news and notes
Share this link on Facebook!TweetNPR’s On The Media looks at the cultural impact of manga: Manga is Japan’s ubiquitous art form; a kind of comic book equivalent that illustrates everything from tax preparation to hard-core fantasy. But it is its growing success outside Japan that’s highlighted its new utility, what Japanese politicians are calling ‘manga diplomacy.’ [...]
Continue ReadingDEATH NOTE: The Official PR
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPR: VIZ Media, one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has licensed the Shonen Jump DEATH NOTE anime series to Adult Swim for domestic broadcast beginning Saturday, October 20 at midnight (EST) on the network’s popular Adult Swim block of programming. New episodes will follow [...]
Continue ReadingNew York Anime fest announces web guests
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPR: The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) today announced prominent online artists and performers Chris Hazelton, GeekNights, Juno Blair B, Lindsey Henninger, and Uncle Yo will be featured at its inaugural event, December 7-9, 2007 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. The New York Anime Festival, organized by [...]
Continue ReadingDEATH NOTE to Adult Swim
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Anime News Networkreports that manga/anime sensation DEATH NOTE, will begin airing on Adult Swim beginning at midnight October 20th. The tale of a teen who fights evil with a death-dealing notebook has already been a worldwide hit in manga, anime, live action and novelized form. [Via Blog@]
Continue ReadingViz gets right to live action DEATH NOTE film
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPR: VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media LLC that focuses on Japanese live-action film distribution, has announced that it has licensed from Nippon Television (NTV) the North American theatrical and DVD distribution rights to the live-action feature film DEATH NOTE and its sequel, DEATH NOTE: THE LAST NAME, based on the [...]
Continue ReadingPR: NY Anime Festival planning continues apace
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPR: The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) is anticipating a significant launch when it opens its doors to the public on December 7th, 2007. While show officials acknowledge that it is still too early to accurately estimate the number of people who will attend, the early enthusiasm and anticipation for a [...]
Continue ReadingADV and Geneon enter distro pact
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPR: Today ADV Films and Geneon Entertainment (USA) announced a new distribution agreement. From October 1st on, ADV Films will be Geneon Entertainment USA’s sole distributor. ADV Films will handle all sales and distribution duties for the combined catalogue as well as certain marketing functions. Geneon Entertainment (USA) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based [...]
Continue ReadingAnime Expo roundup
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAnime Expo was this weekend, with some 35,000 fans converging on Long Beach — down from last year but still a lot of cosplay. We don’t have time to read all the news and so on, but here’s a BUNCH of links — let’s meet back here tomorrow and catch [...]
Continue ReadingMale virgins rampant in Japan
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAccording to one survey, almost 1 in 4 Japanese men between 30-34 is a virgin: “There are 11 percent of people who gave an invalid answer to the survey and I bet you the vast majority of them would be virgins. And though there is also 65 percent who said they have [...]
Continue ReadingNY Asian Film Festival lineup
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Tickets for the 2007 New York AsianFilm Festival are on sale now, and as always it’s a mind boggling array of films. There are quite a few manga/comics tie-ins, and Grady Hendrix was kind enough to give us the low-down: DEATH NOTE and DEATH NOTE: THE LAST NAME – the big, [...]
Continue ReadingAnime bigger than sex?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Compete looks at what people are searching for in Wikipedia, and the results may surprise you: Anime (26%) There is a tremendous amount of interest in learning about Pokemon and Naruto. Perhaps these are parents who want to know what their kids are going crazy over. My Mom didn’t know what [...]
Continue ReadingCanadian ladies love the yaoi
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA Toronto Gay lifetysle website runs an interesting preview of the Anime North convention by looking at yaoi fans through a gay perspective: But Kat Williams, a Toronto-based anime artist and author who organized queer panels at the convention for several years beginning in 2000, says she’s dismayed by the lack [...]
Continue ReadingLet's Play 'Panty Explosion'
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDid you ever want to be a Japanese schoolgirl? Well now you can in a new RPG called Panty Explosion! In Atarashi Games’ Panty Explosion ($20) players take on the roles of psychic Japanese schoolgirls and battle nightmarish demons, ghosts, government agents and even each other. Like the typical “magical girl” [...]
Continue ReadingAnime on Sci-Fi Channel
Share this link on Facebook!TweetComicMix reports on a Broadcasting & Cable magazine report that the Sci-Fi Channel will soon begin airing a 2 hour anime block on Mondays, starting on June 11. The schedule has yet to be set in stone, but they’ll be kicking off with Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society, and airing [...]
Continue ReadingGuest Review: Brandon on TEKKON KINKREET
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet[TEKKON KINKREET made news both as the adaptation of a respected manga, AND the first Japanese anime film to be written and directed by Americans. It's currently on a very limited release in the US. Guest reviewer IVAN BRANDON (NYC Mech, 24seven) sent us this review.] I’ve always said that there are [...]
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