Tag: Frederik schodt

INTERVIEW: Frederik Schodt Guides Us Through the Lion King/Kimba Controversy Just in Time for Mufasa

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is not meant to confirm nor deny a decades-old controversy—the topic of which is well-tread—but rather to provide context as to its origins from those who were closer to it at the time. In honor of the new movie Mufasa, I’m going …Read more »

Frederik Schodt Gets Big Award For Introducing Manga to English Speakers

August 3, 2022

Danica Davidson

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) has announced it’s giving its second annual Tom Spurgeon Award to translator, writer, and Osamu Tezuka interpreter Frederik L. Schodt. Schodt is the man on the far right in the above manga drawing (from Stone Bridge Press’ The Osamu Tezuka Story …Read more »

INTERVIEW: Frederik L. Schodt on How You Can Submit to the Japan International Manga Award

June 24, 2022

Danica Davidson

Frederik L. Schodt is an author and translator who once worked with Osamu Tezuka and who published the groundbreaking book Manga! Manga! Right now he’s helping out the Japan International Manga Award and getting ready to do a special event with Matt Alt on manga’s …Read more »

Classic Manga Banana Fish Gets Anime Series from Free! Director Hiroko Utsumi

October 23, 2017

Matt Schley

Banana Fish, the classic shojo manga from Akimi Yoshida, will be adapted into an anime series, it was reported today. The series, set to air on Fuji TV’s Noitamina block in 2018, will be directed by Hiroko Utsumi (Free!). Banana Fish ran in Bessatsu Shojo …Read more »

Sunday Blogwatch: Same Hat Retells “The Manga Story”

May 23, 2010

Joseph Luster

Whether you're just sitting around trying to put things off until Monday, or perhaps waiting with party hat fixed atop your head for tonight's Lost finale, I figure Sunday is always a good time for fresh reading material. In that regard, one of the best …Read more »