Huge news: Kodansha arrives!
The wait is over as Calvin Reid finally confirms Kodansha's entry into the US Market:After years of speculation about its plans, Kodansha, the largest...
Meanwhile at NYAF…Attendance up 16 percent
We're hearing that the New York Anime Fest was a big hit. Lance Fensterman, who runs the show, reports:
Saturday was by far the most...
Yaoi Press publisher indicted
Yamila Abraham, the publisher of Yaoi Press and a frequently quoted manga industry observer, has been indicted on seven counts of mail fraud, one...
Tonight: NYAF kickoff party
As the New York Anime Fest starts on Friday, tonight Del Rey and the NYAF sponsor a kickoff party. Free!
The New York Anime Festival...
RIP Yoshito Usui
Very sad news out of Japan as the body of manga-ka Yoshito Usui was found over the weekend. Usui, 51, had left...
News bits: DrMaster, McSweeney’s, Avatar
• Katherine Dacey wonder what's happening at DrMaster, and the evidence is not encouraging:
Over at the ANN forums, site user Facesforce speculates that DrMaster...
Yen mangasizes The Clique
Another popular book series is being adapted into comics form, this time The Clique, by Lisi Harrison, a #1 New York Times bestselling series...
Manga-ka news: Usui missing; Nakazawa health issues
Alarming news out of Japan as Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui has been missing since Friday. and his wife and police are extremely concerned....
A.D.V. broken up, emerges as several new companies
The Biggest News Week Ever in Comics ® continues with news that ADV, a leading provider of anime films and, for a while, manga,...
Manga dance: Tokyopop loses Kodansha license, Del Rey gets distro, OEL in limbo
Likely top news if not for that other story yesterday, Brigid Alverson dropped the bombshell that manga giant Kodansha is letting its licenses with...
GUNDAM wedding
Previously only Tweeted, now blogged, Click through for bigger, even more astounding, photos. Link submitted by Isaac Alexander.
Shogakukan and Shueisha acquire Euro Japanime companies
Via PR:
The Japanese manga and animation powerhouses Shogakukan Inc., Shueisha Inc. and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd. (Shogakukan & Shueisha Group) announced today their joint...
