Inside the Otaku Generation
A couple of announcements from the upcoming New York Anime Festival. First the announcement of a number of web guests, and also an ICv2...
Layoffs at ADV
ANN is reporting a new round of layoffs at anime company ADV, which just recently started getting back into the manga publishing game:
An...
Bookazine adds manga to TWE
The manga onslaught continues, as PW reports that the 800-900 outlet strong Trans World Entertainment chain had contracted with wholesaler Bookazine to add manga...
A little more REPTILIA
Manga for the rest of us: IDW previews Umezu's REPTILIA. Much more in link.
Manga conventions
One more manga post! Over at Sporadic Sequentialcultural anthropologist and Japan-based manga expert Matt Thorn explains why manga is so exacting:
Sure, there's...
GOTH movie in the works
And speaking of Manga, Fox Atomic has a movie based on the Japanese novel and manga GOTH in the works. JT Petty is slated...
World Cosplay teams with NY Anime Fest
Forget about the US Open, the World Series, or the Westminster Dog Show -- New York is about to get a new competition which...
Legal notes 2: The Death Note murders?
Anime News Network picks up a story from a Belgian tabloid reporting that two identical messages linked to Death Note were left near...
Manganovel and Toshiba pact for scanlations
Via PR, news of a new legit venture to allow fans to create their own scanlations:
Manganovel Corporation and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they...
Umezu at IDW
Freaky manga-ka legend Kazuo Umezu is getting another shot in America via REPTILIA, due this October from IDW, which is making its first foray...
Viz and Naruto top charts
Viz sends out PR trumpeting the success of their "Naruto Nation" event -- NARUTO is 1, 2 and 3 on the Bookscan GN schart:
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