Manga

Ed Chavez begins a series of very detailed report cards on various manga publishers, and starts with Aurora Publishing, home of mostly female-focused manga, including josei. Aurora Publishing tried to rectify that problem. Already...

They're all here.

Many reports going around this morning about Kodansha, the Japanese publishing giant, pulling its licenses from Tokyopop's German arm. Simon Jones: According to an official Tokyopop Germany newsletter, which has been reposted on their official...

Along with everything else in the world, the future of manga in the US is being examined -- not that it's going anywhere, but a few of the weaker companies may get picked off...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafd97yJFOI&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344] Please enjoy this brief satirical cartoon by BRIT Harry Partridge, showing what AKIRA, Katsuhiro Otomo's classic cyberpunk vision of a future Tokyo, would be like had it been made in America. Of course,...

A few details are emerging about the troubling news that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith want to remake OLDBOY, the disturbing film about a man who is locked in a room for years and...

ICv2 talks more about the end of the US branch of manga publisher Broccoli: In 2007 Broccoli launched Boysenberry Books, a shonen ai imprint that was an attempt to get a share of what at...

Gia Manry reports that Broccoli USA, the US arm of Japanese publisher Broccoli, is shutting down: I got an anonymous tip that led me over to Broccoli’s website and eventually to this press release (Japanese...

MovieWeb has some stills from next year's Dragonball movie. Goku is played by Justin Chatwin, meaning he's a young white dude. How is that possible? Oh right, colorblind casting. Whew! It's so progressive to...

As mentioned in "Lying in the Gutters" this week, Vertical, best known for its manga line of Tezuka releases, but also a publisher of translations of various literary Japanese works, has had several layoffs....

It all started when Laura Hudson rounded up comments by Top Shelf's Leigh Walton, Andrew Wheeler and Joe McCulloch about the fact that mangaka Jiro Kuwata's name was not on the cover of BAT-MANGA,...

As a special Halloween treat, we'd like to offer a COMPLETE story from Osamu Tezuka's BLACK JACK Volume 1, "Teratoid Cystoma." Black Jack is the world's greatest surgeon but he's also a dropout from...