RUMBLE GIRLS is back
At long last, Lea Hernandez resumes the web version of RUMBLE GIRLS with RUNAWAY LIGHTNING OHMRY. Yay!
38 new titles from Tokyopop
Via Anime News Network via ComiPress, a list of 38 new titles coming next year from Tokyopop:
January 8th, 2008
- Aria by Kozue Amano
- Deja...
Moyocco Anno’s HATARAKI MAN
Moyoco Anno is one of our favorite cartoonists. Her work deals with gender issues in a bleak, take no prisoners way that leaves everyone...
CATHEDRAL CHILD online
Lea Hernandez announces that she's put CATHEDRAL CHILD, a book in her Texas Steampunk series, online for FREE.
Cathedral Child, as I've been promising...
Interviews, interviews
• ICv2 interviews Viz Media's Seiji Horibuchi on the subject of Viz's growing slate of movie releases beyond the DVD market:
With the growing interest...
“Kyoto Police Tightens Grip on Loli Manga”
While that headline could be taken two ways, it appears that Japan is not quite the land of anything goes that we thought it...
Normal person reads Naruto, reports back
Jesse at What We're Reading Now assays to read Naruto:
What I want to say before I get too deep into it is that Naruto...
Nymphet creator speaks
The controversy over NYMPHET, the planned American version of Kaoru Watashiya's KODOMO NO JIKAN ust keeps going. Now Watashiya-san has addressed the controversy...
NY Asian Film Festival lineup
Tickets for the 2007 New York AsianFilm Festival are on sale now, and as always it's a mind boggling array of films. There are...
Tezuka notes
The Astro Boy Essays by Fred Schodt! MUST HAVE.
AND this perceptive piece in The San Francisco Guardian about the Tezuka exhibition which just...
Things we missed that you shouldn’t
§ Terry Moore's own picture-heavy report on the STRANGERS IN PARADISE wrap party.
§ A content-heavy interview with ADV's John Ledford at ANN ....
Anime bigger than sex?
Compete looks at what people are searching for in Wikipedia, and the results may surprise you:
Anime (26%)
There is a tremendous amount of interest...
