Boys and girls….different?
TheManganews forum picks up debates on whether the strict, audience-defined Japanese genres of manga are really useful outside of Japan:
The debate in the staff...
IRON WOK JAN: SUMMIT BATTLE
ComiPress reports that IRON WOK JAN creator Shinji Saijyo has a new Iron Wok Jan serial beginning!
A new Iron Wok Jan manga from...
Wachowskis go Speed Racer go!
A Live action SPEED RACER movie directed by the Wachowski Brothers is ON:
Producer Joel Silver has stated that the long talked about Speed Racer...
Linkage 10/30
§ Over at the The Forbidden Planet International Blog the artist known as Ilya is intervieed asbout a new brit anthology with the promising...
Maid in cafe molested
"Maid cafes" have become a popular fad in the otaku district known as the Akihabara in Tokyo. Here, pretty young women dressed in frilly...
Around the world of comics
§ Jewish Week examines how Batman embodies Jewish values as explained by Rabbi Cary Freidman:
Friedman argues that Batman instills in his audience some of...
Comics on cells boffo in Japan
Newsweek looks at the popularity of comics delivered via cell phone:
Consumer demand for manga (the Japanese word for print comics) has surged in recent...
Links so good
§ Johanna has more commentary on ICv2's Most Powerful People in manga list, including spots 11-20:
# Robin Brenner, Young Adwult Library Services Association# Jim...
Ten Most Powerful people in manga
Yesterday, ICv2 published a list of the Top Ten Most Powerful people in Manga, gleaned from interviews with other industry figures. Here's the...
Manga moment
Jarred Pine has a good review of ODE TO KIRIHITO at Anime on DVD:
Ode to Kirihito might just be the most important, and at...
Goro Miyazaki, Ursula K. Leguin and the manger
The New York Times has one of those read-it-before-it-goes-behind-the-firewall stories, a profile of Goro Miyazaki and his recent adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's THE...
Paul Gravett: Article – Gekiga: The Flipside Of Manga
Paul Gravett on gekiga:
During the traumatic recovery after World War II, Japanese children escaped into Osamu Tezuka's Disney-inspired manga as the perfect pre-TV entertainment....
