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For anyone who doesn’t know the deal, a super-brief summary: the upcoming live-action Ghost in the Shell film stars Scarlett Johansson, a decidedly non-Asian actor, as Ghost in the Shell ’s heretofore Asian main character. Cue controversy. Controversy that the principals behind the live-action adaptation …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 »
Plant yourself, if you will, inside the soft, roped footings of a ninja sneaking about Japan in the 1500s. Your clan has been scattered and politics have become a precarious position with which you need to intertwine yourself discreetly if you want your group to …Read more »
The following statement may or may not be fully supported by this magazine's editorial staff, but given my years of manga experience I wholeheartedly believe it to be true-- "Manga are comics; comics are manga." The differences between the two are so insignificant that in …Read more »
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