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Great news for fans of the work of manga author Naoki Urasawa. The accomplished creator is finally making all of his manga available digitally in Japan, starting with the currently-running Asadora! and a bunch of complete editions of previous titles. While Urasawa has made his …Read more »
Look, everyone needs a YouTube channel nowadays, and that even applies to internationally acclaimed manga author Naoki Urasawa. Known for series ranging from Monster and 20th Century Boys to Pluto and his current manga Asadora!, among many others, the artist celebrated Asadora!‘s fifth volume release with the …Read more »
Naoki Urasawa, the celebrated manga-ka behind works like Monster, 20th Century Boys, Yawara, Master Keaton and much more is creating an anime. That’s the word from Urasawa himself, who wrote in the pages of Weekly Big Comic Spirits this week: “I’m making an anime. I …Read more »
One of our favorite TV shows—nay, one of our favorite things, period—in the world is Manben. That’s the show where Naoki Urasawa (Monster, 20th Century Boys) visits other manga artists to learn about their styles, philosophies, what kind of pens they use, &c. Urasawa and …Read more »
Manga to Return from Hiatus” width=”1000″ height=”400″ />The master is back. Naoki Urasawa, the pen behind works like 20th Century Boys and Monster, has been taking a break from his latest manga, Asadora!, since January, after that manga’s first arc wrapped up. Now it’s been …Read more »
Angelinos have all the luck. Seriously, with all the great Japan-related content it gets, Los Angeles may the best place in the world to live if you’re a Japanophile (er, except Japan, that is). The latest get for LA is This is MANGA – The …Read more »
About a month and a half from now, Osaka will host its yearly women’s marathon. This time around, its official character was designed and illustrated by none other than manga master Naoki Urasawa. He of 20th Century Boys, Monster, Billy Bat and other thrillers is …Read more »
Back in 1970, Osaka hosted the world’s fair, and as anyone who’s read 20th Century Boys knows, Expo ’70 was a giant success that influenced a whole generation of manga and anime creators (not to mention would-be scientists, businesspeople and more). Now Osaka is bidding …Read more »
If there’s one clear trend we’ve seen over the last few years in Japan, it’s a rise in the number of live-action adaptations of anime and manga. It’s to the point where over half of the films we review here at Japan HQ aren’t even …Read more »
Live-action adaptations of anime and manga are an inevitably contentious topic, as more often than not fans are worked into a furor over a film project that may not ever enter production. Case in point: the recent announcement that Scarlet Johannson has been cast as …Read more »
If you pay attention to social media, you may have noticed that people have been talking non-stop about the World Cup for what feels like forever. If you keep up with current anime, you may have noticed that one of last season’s most interesting titles …Read more »
Dark Horse has been making it really hard to conserve shelf space with their re-releases of CLAMP’s back catalog. Even if, like me, you already own all the previous releases from Tokyopop, it’s almost impossible to pass by these brand new, retranslated, cleaned up, full-color …Read more »
photo by Grenouille Vert With over 40 years of experience, Masao Maruyama is one of the great stalwart figures of the anime industry. Originally an animator at Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Productions in the 1960s, Maruyama left to co-found legendary animation studio Madhouse in 1972, along …Read more »
Dark Horse pulls out the big guns this week with over 1,000 pages of CLAMP manga! Their newest volume of Cardcaptor Sakura is the last book in the series. If you haven't picked up this gem already, I highly recommend it. I'd say it's my …Read more »
Hey there, On The Shelf readers and manga buyers - last week we didn't have an On The Shelf article so this week I'll be covering both July 18 and July 25th's shipping lists! That's twice as much manga, and all available for you to …Read more »
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