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. We don't have time to read all the news...
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 answer to the survey and I bet you the vast...
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...
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...
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...
Let’s Play ‘Panty Explosion’
Did 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...
Anime on Sci-Fi Channel
ComicMix 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...
Guest Review: Brandon on TEKKON KINKREET
I’ve always said that there are artists out there whose work should probably never be adapted. In most of Vonnegut’s work, for example, the joy of the experience depends largely on...
Spotlite on…COSPLAY!
A couple of stories that illuminate this sometimes confounding activity. In Hawaii, the deck sums it up:
Passive fun isn't for hard-core anime fans who toil to dress the part
and the story digs in:
About an...
Jonas Moore: what are these VISUAL NOVELS???
As part of the imminent cell phone/iPod revolution many large corporations are sinking money into creating comics that can easily be morphed into cartoons or movies, or hybrids of the same. The flipside...
ICv2 on top ten Manga and Anime
ICv2 is promoting it's new ICv2 Guide #42: Anime/Manga with a list of the top Manga and Anime properties via Bookscan.
ICv2 Top Ten Manga Properties
1. Naruto
2. Bleach
3. Kingdom Hearts
4. Fruits Basket
5. Death Note
6....
Here comes Speed Racer!
Emile Hirsch has been cast as Speed Racer in the upcoming movie:
The actor most recently earned critical acclaim as the charismatic Johnny Truelove in the real-life crime drama Alpha Dog, and as skateboarding vanguard...
