Cartoon Network exposure sells manga!
ICv2 notes that since BLEACH starting airing on the Cartoon Network, manga sales have soared.
The BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores for...
Would a manga anthology work?
Last week Tania Del Rio wrote at Pop Culture Shock wondering if manga anthologies could possibly work here the way they do in Japan....
Otomo meets Cup Noodles!
Coolest thing ever for today. A site promoting Nissen for the 35th Anniversary of Cup Noodles presents an animated video by Katsuhiro Otomo...
Japanese toon biz update
Earlier in the week we told you about Itochu and Comic Book Movies possibly teaming to make a CYBORG 009 movie. But that...
GON back at CMX
In all the retailer summit hoopla of Whedon and the Dabels a little news was missed, namely that Masashi Tanaka's GON will be coming...
Inumaru felt she “wasn’t good at job”
A few more details on the suicide of Rin Inumaru, creator of OJARU MARU:
Rin Inumaru, the 48-year-old creator of "Ojaru Maru," apparently jumped from...
CPM announces Anime on the Web
Just to complete a manga news trifecta, CPM has just announced they'll be distributing free anime videos via Google Video...including Tezuka's BLACK JACK! Woot,...
Viz publishes art books
Just in time to deplete your holiday budget, Viz has announced a series of art books based on such popular properties as NEON GENESIS...
PR: Seven Seas launches light novels
Innovative Seven Seas ads a new line of "light novels", " which are actual novels that are geared towards manga readers, whatever that means....
Movie tidbits
Variety parses the Comic Book Movies/Itochu pact, boiling it down to a wish to make films based on Shotaro Ishinomori's work.
Itochu's interest in...
Cartoonist leaps to death
Mangaka Rin Inumaru commited suicide this weekend, apparently worried about her work. She created the character "Ojarumaru" which we weren't familiar with, but Googling...
