The Mainichi Shimbun, a major Japanese news outlet, picked up a story of a Japanese artist in the Kansai region who had her work stolen and changed by AI after she came out against AI-made artwork. The artist’s name was not given. She made a …Read more »
Over his decades making iconic anime films, Studio Ghibli director and frequent unretirer Hayao Miyazaki has inspired more than a few artists. Some of those artists (over 130, in fact) will pay tribute to Miyazaki at an exhibition in Los Angeles August 17-19. The exhibition, …Read more »
It seems like every child at some point every child becomes frustrated with their own artwork and wishes they had an better artist around to bring their ideas to life more effectively. For most of us that’s usually just classmate or older sibling, but for …Read more »
If you haven’t seen the work of Japanese artist Kaneoya Sachiko before, you’re in for a treat. Publisher Iron Circus Comics has teamed up with Kaneoya to release the company’s first art book—featuring over 200 pages of art that’s never been published in North America—and …Read more »
Jojo’s fans: if you’re planning to visit Tokyo in the near future, you may want to consider sometime between August 24 and October 1. That’s when The National Art Center in Tokyo will host an exhibition featuring JoJo’s art from Hirohiko Araki, the creator of …Read more »
After a successful 11-year run in Weekly Shonen Magazine, Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail came to a close this July. Over its decade-plus in publication, the fantasy manga had made more than a few fans, who are currently paying tribute to the manga in the form …Read more »
Luffy and the Straw Hats hit hard, so what could possibly be a more fitting tribute to One Piece than 30 tons of stone art? The piece is part of an exhibition placed at the Daikaku-ji temple in Kyoto, and the giant stone mural depicts …Read more »
Big shout-out to Boing Boing, who have stumbled across and shared this amazing Tumblr full of high-quality production materials from Akira , the 1988 classic that needs no introduction (or shouldn’t, anyway, but as it ages, you do meet folks who haven’t seen it). Subject-28 …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s classic Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind depicts an epic battle of the beasts, as a so-called Giant Monster takes on a swarm of Ohm in one of the film’s climactic scenes. Now one creative soul has recreated that iconic battle with …Read more »
Danica Davidson is a contributor to Otaku USA magazine, and she's also an author of her own books. In addition to her Minecraft novels, Danica's Manga Art for Beginners: How to Create Your Own Manga Drawings book, illustrated by Melanie Westin, just debuted. We took …Read more »
The collapse of the US print manga market in 2009-2010 took opportunities for manga-influenced Western comics down with it, but while printed manga died, other opportunities opened up. Japanese-influenced artists may not have a bookstore category anymore, but they kick ass in the world of web …Read more »
Some good news and some bad news from the Kickstarter campaign for Little Witch Academia 2 , which was successfully funded in 2013. The bad news about the Studio Trigger-produced film is that it’ll be coming out a little later than expected. While the film …Read more »
3331 Arts Chiyoda, a multi-purpose modern art museum close to Akihabara, Tokyo, has been the sight of a few anime-related exhibitions over the years, including a huge Katsuhiro Otomo retrospective back in 2012. Last week, it hosted a pretty amazing exhibition dedicated to two recent …Read more »
If our observations on a trip there last summer are any indication, anime is pretty popular in Taiwan. Animate, the otaku-centric anime shop, have a few stores there, and just as in the States, anime regularly airs on the TV. That became a small problem …Read more »
Katsuya Terada is one of the most interesting artists currently working in Japan, at least in this writer's humble opinion. If the name doesn't sound familiar, you may know his work from the character designs used in Production I.G's Blood: The Last Vampire . He …Read more »
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