ADV and Geneon enter distro pact
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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...
Schreiber and rem team for VAMPIRE KISSES
Tokyopop has announced another one of its YA manga adaptations, this time by YA best selling author Ellen Schreiber. Brigid at MangaBlog provides commentary.
TOKYOPOP, the leader of the Global Manga Revolution and Katherine Tegen...
Comiket makes San Diego look small
Japanese doujinshi con sets new attendance record.
Comiket 72 took place from August 17th - 19th. According to Mantan Web, over 170,000 fans attended Comiket 72 on day 1, 180,000 attended on day 2 and...
Comiket kicks off
Think San Diego was stressful? Imagine half a million otaku streaming through Tokyo Big Sight hunting for their favorite doujinshi. :
About 36,000 organizations will put cartoons, novels, music and game software programs on...
Ishii leaves Vertical
Popular marketing maven Anne Ishii has left Vertical; she hasn't announced her new gig yet. Kerim Yasser takes over the Vertical Weblog and he already has a pretty good idea of the score:
As for...
Dark Horse announces GANTZ
The ultra-violent but very popular manga GANTZ is coming out from Dark Horse. Googling for an image we found the above and other stuff that somehow tells us this one will cause a bit...
Where Japan draws the line
Speaking of Japan, after some of the content controversies mentioned here, it would seem like the land of anything goes. but is that really true? ComiPress recently ran A History of Shojo, Loli, and...
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.
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most...
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 Rey/Villard guests include Harry Turtledove, Jason Rodriguez (Postcards: True Stories...
Mucho mucho linkage
§ Mike Baron tells us his blog "World of Mike Baron" is back up for real, just in time for the release of a new NEXUS !
§ ComiPress offers a detailed look at the...
Hollywood notes: Crudup, Hewlett, Miike
• Are you sick of Watchmen casting notices yet? We're not! The latest hot scoop is that Billy Crudup (Almost Famous) is set to play detached Dr. Manhattan:
This news comes courtesy of CHUD, whose...
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 of various characters and the caption "Check back in October...
