Deutsche Welle (a.k.a. DW), an international media outlet from Germany, published an article not only about manga’s growth and possibilities, but also about manga’s growth in America. According to DW, the Japan business federation known as Keidanren has written a proposal for the Japanese government …Read more »
March 11 marks 12 years since a record-breaking earthquake led to the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. Guardian of Fukushima, a new graphic novel from writer Fabien Grolleau and artist Ewen Blain — which includes a foreword from Roland Kelts — tells the story of …Read more »
Author and journalist Roland Kelts’ new book The Art of Blade Runner: Black Lotus is a beautiful coffee table book of artwork from the titular anime. Blade Runner: Black Lotus itself is part of the Blade Runner franchise, and was directed by Shinji Aramaki and …Read more »
Last night the Japan Society of New York City gave the livestream “Japanese Pop Culture: Connecting the World through Manga and Anime.” It was moderated by Bill Tsutsui, writer of Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization, and starred manga creator and Content Production Group Manager at …Read more »
Japanese-American journalist Roland Kelts’s pioneering book Japanamerica has been translated into several languages across Asia and Europe, including Japanese. Now thanks to Odaiba Ediciones in Spain, it’s getting a new officially licensed Spanish translation. Anime and manga are very popular in Spain and throughout Latin …Read more »
Despite all the challenges posed by a pandemic, Japanese pop culture (especially in the forms of anime and manga) have seen their sales numbers grow exponentially during quarantine. The Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth put on a virtual panel to discuss this, and if you …Read more »
The Asia Society Southern California has made its virtual panel “Hollywood’s New Anime Gold Rush” available to watch on YouTube. The panel consists of founder and CEO of Sentai Filmworks John Ledford, president of Production I.G USA Maki Terashima-Furuta, and senior vice president/creative director of …Read more »
The Asia Society Southern California is putting on a virtual (and free!) event tomorrow, Friday November 20. Called “Hollywood’s New Anime Gold Rush,” it will be a panel consisting of founder and CEO of Sentai Filmworks John Ledford, president of Production I.G USA Maki Terashima-Furuta, …Read more »
Japanamerica author Roland Kelts recently wrote a piece for The Japan Times about how COVID-19 is affecting anime conventions. Cons have been canceled all over this year, and one issue is that the conventions want to get cancelled for safety reasons, but they could lose …Read more »
Many fans of anime and manga are interested in learning about Japanese culture as a whole, and they will find a great source of information in the writings of Roland Kelts. Kelts’ father is American and his mother is Japanese, giving him a unique perspective …Read more »
Danica Davidson
