VIZ Media recently announced the creation of a new imprint, VIZ Originals, which will be publishing “manga-inspired” books starting in 2020. In other words, after years of giving fans manga licensed from Japan, the company now wants to get new graphic novels from their fans. …Read more »
Two hundred thousand. That’s roughly how many people crowded into the Tokyo Big Sight each day for three days late last year for the largest fan convention in the world, Comic Market, a.k.a. Comiket. It’s a number that’s hard to really visualize. By comparison, the …Read more »
Can’t get enough Shonen Jump? Editor-in-Chief Andy Nakatani knows what it’s like to be a manga fan, and he’s always looking for ways to expand the otaku base and support the creators in Japan. VIZ is out with a new Shonen Jump app, we spoke …Read more »
November 3 marks what would be the ninetieth birthday of Osamu Tezuka, the man known both as the God of Manga and the Walt Disney of Japan. During his sixty years on this planet, Tezuka created manga as we now know it, invigorated Japanese animation, …Read more »
The original creators of the Deadman Wonderland manga, Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou, were at this year’s Anime Central, giving us the perfect opportunity to learn more about their thoughts on the series, its anime adaptation, and what they’re working on now. Dig into the …Read more »
Otaku USA contributor Danica Davidson is about to publish her second instructional manga art guide book, Manga Art for Intermediates, so we took the opportunity to talk about the process with her and the book’s illustrator, Rena Saiya. The book officially hits stores on June 12, so …Read more »
That’s it. I quit. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: teen idols and bright yellow blobs failing to act their way out of a paper bag in Assassination’s Classroom . ERASED , a film I wish someone would’ve had the sense to do with …Read more »
Manga authors rarely visit the United States because of their constant deadlines, so seeing Rei Hiroe, creator of Black Lagoon, at AnimeNEXT 2016 was quite the rarity. We got a chance to talk with him … while surrounded by a small army of publishing execs …Read more »
That’s a wrap for day one of Comic Market 91. The long-running celebration of fan-made manga, games, animation and more that goes by Comiket for short is on in Tokyo, and we made our way there today to peruse, schmooze and, most importantly, snap some …Read more »
The antihero: far cooler than your average goody two shoes, this is the archetypal badass who takes no prisoners, cares about no one, and doesn’t have time to chat. Think Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , Mad Max or basically …Read more »
Ryosuke Tomoe’s popular horror manga Museum , first serialized in Young Magazine, has been adapted into a live-action film directed by Keishi Otomo ( Rurouni Kenshin ) and starring Shun Oguri ( Lupin III ). Does the live-action version capture the creepy atmospherics of the …Read more »
Talk about a two-way twister. It’s sister sister time over at ranking site Goo, where they have asked their anime-loving readers: who are anime’s cutest female siblings? Let’s take a look at the top 10. 10. Akari and Akane Akaza YuruYuri 9. Cornelia and Euphemia …Read more »
At its core, A Silent Voice ( Koe no Katachi ), the new film from Kyoto Animation and director Naoko Yamada, is about a group of young people desperately trying, often failing, but occasionally briefly, brilliantly succeeding at following that basic but intensely difficult rule …Read more »
Epic fail, man. That is, presumably, what the fans polled for this list thought when they saw their favorite shonen manga transformed into anime that, well, didn’t quite meet their expectations. While, ranking site Goo points out, manga-to-anime adaptations usually have a higher success rate …Read more »
Let’s go for a ride. From giant robots to airborne gliders to 3D maneuver gear, from the beginning, the world of anime and manga has featured a wide and amazing array of rideable machines. Polling site Charapedia recently asked its readers what anime machines they’d …Read more »
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