“Kyoto Police Tightens Grip on Loli Manga”
While that headline could be taken two ways, it appears that Japan is not quite the land of anything goes that we thought it was, as Kyoto police are giving so called "lolicon" manga...
Normal person reads Naruto, reports back
Jesse at What We're Reading Now assays to read Naruto:
What I want to say before I get too deep into it is that Naruto is a very poorly done comic. The figure drawing and...
Nymphet creator speaks
The controversy over NYMPHET, the planned American version of Kaoru Watashiya's KODOMO NO JIKAN ust keeps going. Now Watashiya-san has addressed the controversy in her diary. As this translation shows, however, there is...
NY Asian Film Festival lineup
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...
Tezuka notes
The Astro Boy Essays by Fred Schodt! MUST HAVE.
AND this perceptive piece in The San Francisco Guardian about the Tezuka exhibition which just opened, and his legacy.
Together, the exhibition and the book...
Things we missed that you shouldn’t
§ Terry Moore's own picture-heavy report on the STRANGERS IN PARADISE wrap party.
§ A content-heavy interview with ADV's John Ledford at ANN . As you may recall, ADV was once a category leader...
Anime bigger than sex?
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...
Nymphet update
Well what do you know, Seven Seas publisher Jason DeAngelis proves he is a responsible, mature adult by speaking publicly and frankly on a controversy involving his company. This man can never run...
NYMPHET controversy rears adorable head
We don't have time today to do justice to this Nymphet controversy. Suffice to say that Seven Seas has been forced to postpone publication of NYMPHET, a popular Japanese comic about a grade schooler...
UDON launches manhwa line
Yet another manga/manhwa publisher jumping into it, as UDON Entertainment, the long running comics packager, launches its own Korean comics line:
What is Korean Manhwa? Combine unique storytelling techniques and manga-influenced artwork with the rich...
Canadian ladies love the yaoi
A 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...
Yaoi magazine launches
Okay, will someone PLEASE publish COMIC FOUNDRY?
Iris Print, publisher of the Lambda Literary Award finalist novel "A Strong and Sudden Thaw", announced today its plans to publish the first North American boys' love magazine,...
