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Most artists don’t make a lot of money or have a lot of free time to take care of things around the house, and this includes manga artists. As a result, a rent-free shared house called “Manga-so” has popped up in Tokyo to give mangaka …Read more »
A building in Tokyo that once housed multiple mangaka, including Osamu “God of Manga” Tezuka, was taken down in the early 1980s. However, so many people have wanted to see what it looked like that a new museum duplicating it has been created, called the …Read more »
Shaft, the anime studio behind many fan favorites, has been hired by the Tokyo district of Ikebukuro. The studio is creating a promotional video that’s meant to appeal to anime fans from both inside and outside Japan. The full video is set to premiere January …Read more »
Yuriko Koike, the governor of Tokyo, is known as an anime fan. The governor is often seen donning anime duds come Halloween, and once even proclaimed she wants to turn Tokyo into “anime land.” How much of this is pure fandom and how much is …Read more »
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