Haruki Murakami is a household name among literary enthusiasts, but whether you’ve read any of his collection of novels, essays, short stories, or not, you likely have heard of his work. Being translated into over 50 languages and selling millions of copies worldwide, Murakami is …Read more »
In Japan it’s not uncommon for manga to get their own museums or exhibits, whether permanent or temporary. Now manga will get its day in the sun in an American exhibit, thanks to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which is launching Art of …Read more »
Dozens of manga have been pulled from school districts in Tennessee to comply with the state’s new obscenity laws. For starters, Rutherford County Schools yanked more than 150 books from its districts shelves, and it’s reviewing the first volume of Fire Force and the first …Read more »
The Agency for Cultural Affairs, which is a section of the Japanese government’s larger Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, is interested in putting anime and manga art materials in an official national archive. When we say materials, the archive would mostly be …Read more »
This month, Kodansha is launching some fresh new titles to try. Looking for action? Romance? Memories of one of your favorite movies? The publisher has all three—and more importantly, we have reviews of all three! Read on to pick your favorites and build out your …Read more »
The nominees for the 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been unveiled by Comic-Con International! Let’s see what manga are involved. In the category Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia, five manga are nominated: #DRCL midnight children by Shin’ichi Sakamoto Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki …Read more »
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund — which protects comics and manga from censorship — was one of the groups that filed a lawsuit to block Texas’ House Bill 900, (referred to as READER) from going into effect. The vaguely worded act would force book …Read more »
The after-school manga club at Magnolia Middle School in Delaware was a popular club bringing in 20 to 80 students who would read manga, talk about it, and check out anime. In order to get in the club, kids had to have written parental permission. …Read more »
One of the many panels at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con was the Manga Industry Publishing Roundtable, moderated by Deb Aoki, and The Comics Beat did a story on highlights from the panelists. One of the topics was about what’s fueling manga growth. “Instead of …Read more »
No country imports more manga than France, and manga and anime can also influence the French art scene. A new article at The Guardian, titled “Manga-nifique! How France became obsessed with Japanese anime” talks about the new French animation Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, based on …Read more »
2022 turned out to be another impressive year for manga around the world, and in Japan the combined print and digital sales reached record numbers once again. The final tally has it at 677 billion yen (about US$5.264 billion), making it the best year for …Read more »
It’s set up in Japan so that a new invoice system will begin in October 2023, and part of it takes away tax-exempt status from freelancers and sole proprietors. 1,275 people took part in a recent manga industry survey on the matter, and just 17 …Read more »
Sometimes hotels in Japan will theme their rooms to otaku interests, like this Hello Kitty room or this Sasuke Uchiha room. But in Jimbocho, an area in Tokyo famous for its hundred-plus used bookstores, the Book Hotel Jimbocho has unveiled two Manga Art Rooms this …Read more »
When a manga series has been running long enough, there’s always the very real possibility you could die before it reaches its conclusion. That’s certainly the case for some of the biggest ongoing series out there, so Japanese ranking site Futabanet decided to poll some …Read more »
It feels like the Sherlock Holmes canon has been reimagined in pretty much every way possible. It’s been modernized, retold with animals, set in Kabukicho… and then there was that one time with the robot dinosaurs. The point is, it feels like the canon has been …Read more »
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