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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
