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...
Naruto in USA Today top 25
NARUTO continues its relentless assault on the bestseller lists, as it jumps to #21 on the USA Today Booklist, a previously unknown height or...
More on Shonen Jump’s yaoi trend
Simon at Icarus Publishing boils down that article on the evolving editorial slant of Shonen Jump that ComiPress linked to last week, and boils...
Bandai gets tough with fansubbers
Anime News Network and many other places are reporting a new get-tough attitude from Bandai regarding fan-made translations of their movies, including things...
