Recession Watch: Imagi Studios
Forbes reports on how the ASTRO BOY movie is squeaking through the tough times as Imagi Studios, the production company, searches for funding...
2008 Manga Report Card for Aurora
Ed Chavez begins a series of very detailed report cards on various manga publishers, and starts with Aurora Publishing, home of mostly female-focused manga,...
Kodansha pulls licenses from TPop Germany
Many reports going around this morning about Kodansha, the Japanese publishing giant, pulling its licenses from Tokyopop's German arm. Simon Jones:
According to an official...
Manga rumblings
Along with everything else in the world, the future of manga in the US is being examined -- not that it's going anywhere, but...
American version of AKIRA?
http://www.youtube.com/v/jafd97yJFOI&hl=en&fs=1
Please enjoy this brief satirical cartoon by BRIT Harry Partridge, showing what AKIRA, Katsuhiro Otomo's classic cyberpunk vision of a future Tokyo, would be...
Spielberg/Smith OLDBOY based on manga
A few details are emerging about the troubling news that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith want to remake OLDBOY, the disturbing film about a...
More on Broccoli
ICv2 talks more about the end of the US branch of manga publisher Broccoli:
In 2007 Broccoli launched Boysenberry Books, a shonen ai imprint that...
RIP: Broccoli USA?
Gia Manry reports that Broccoli USA, the US arm of Japanese publisher Broccoli, is shutting down:
I got an anonymous tip that led me over...
World reminded of Dragonball movie’s future existence; world goes back to crossword puzzle
MovieWeb has some stills from next year's Dragonball movie. Goku is played by Justin Chatwin, meaning he's a young white dude. How is that...
Vertical layoffs
As mentioned in "Lying in the Gutters" this week, Vertical, best known for its manga line of Tezuka releases, but also a publisher of...
Kuwata controversy roundup
It all started when Laura Hudson rounded up comments by Top Shelf's Leigh Walton, Andrew Wheeler and Joe McCulloch about the fact that mangaka...
