SD07: Viz welcomes Arina Tanemura (#4113)
Manga superstar Arina Tanemura (FULL MOON, KAMIKAZE KAITO JEANNE, and the recent GENTLEMAN'S ALLIANCE) will be making an appearance at the Vix booth.
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SD07: Del Rey (#1135)
Okay we have a long list of contests, signings, panels and other activities -- including origami -- here. The short version is that Del...
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Hollywood notes: Crudup, Hewlett, Miike
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ICE KUNION Evolution
Precocious Curmudgeon catches on to the fact that the website of manga publisher ICE Kunion now redirects to www.freemanhwa.com, which bears a big picture...
France invaded by “mangas” fans
Some 80,000 French Japanophiles attended a recent Asian pop culture expo it's being reported.
The annual expo - which drew only 3,000 visitors when...
More on manga’s girl appeal
Last week's revelation that grown men didn't read manga continues to reverberate. One commenter at Comics Worth Reading sees the light:
I guess I...
YAOI JAMBOREE!!
Have there ever been more thrilling words uttered in English? YAOI JAMBOREE! It's not a joke!
Yaoi Press, the leading publisher of manga influenced yaoi...
It’s a girls, girls, girls, girls world!
ICv2 reports that new manga glut is coming this fall:
The number of new manga series launching in September, October and November has reached...
Yen Press website launches
YEN PRESS, the new Hachette manga and graphic novel imprint, has launched a website. It still looks a bit beta, but has the a...
Anime Expo roundup
Anime Expo was this weekend, with some 35,000 fans converging on Long Beach -- down from last year but still a lot of cosplay....
Male virgins rampant in Japan
According 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...
