Chronicle
Love Manga is consistently terrific and covers all the news that I missed over the past day-and-a-bit, but here are the highlights that caught my eye.
CMX continues to be everyone's whipping boy for What's Wrong With Manga in America (and justifiably so). Even Diamond gets a chance to stick a fork in them, and hell, Diamond's usually the whipping boy for What's Wrong With Comics Distribution in America. That's pretty damn sad.
Yes, yaoi is fascinating. Even The Boston Globe thinks so.
It's awards season in the comics biz, and Tokyopop got a few nominations for releases like Fake and Tokyo Tribes.
Speaking of Tokyo Tribes, manga-ka Santa Inoue is starting a new series called Tokyo Drive, as reported by Manganews.net.
Animania has the Top 10 manga in Japan for this week, and look who's on top. Hahaha. The one that I'm pretty sure will never make Top 10 in the U.S. just because it's so badly hacked up.
In the multimedia field, Seven Seas' manga-on-PSP gimmick has garnered 12000 downloads in 5 days. Meanwhile, Viz plans to tie-in an Ultra Maniac manga preview with the first volume of the anime*, and have announced similar plans for Fullmetal Alchemist. I won't even try to put a spin on the resounding sales potential of "moe" (that's a two-syllable word, not the Stooge), because that's its own brand of creepy.
And finally, Production I.G has put up its website for the anime movie adaptations of Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC. There's not a whole lot of preview imagery available yet, but considering that this is the studio that produced the highly lauded Ghost in the Shell franchise, I expect the animation to be nothing less than stellar.
*I just realized I do have this DVD on hand. The preview ... has left me feverishly counting the days until the July release. Wataru Yoshizumi won me over back with Marmalade Boy, and it looks like she's done it again.
CMX continues to be everyone's whipping boy for What's Wrong With Manga in America (and justifiably so). Even Diamond gets a chance to stick a fork in them, and hell, Diamond's usually the whipping boy for What's Wrong With Comics Distribution in America. That's pretty damn sad.
Yes, yaoi is fascinating. Even The Boston Globe thinks so.
It's awards season in the comics biz, and Tokyopop got a few nominations for releases like Fake and Tokyo Tribes.
Speaking of Tokyo Tribes, manga-ka Santa Inoue is starting a new series called Tokyo Drive, as reported by Manganews.net.
Animania has the Top 10 manga in Japan for this week, and look who's on top. Hahaha. The one that I'm pretty sure will never make Top 10 in the U.S. just because it's so badly hacked up.
In the multimedia field, Seven Seas' manga-on-PSP gimmick has garnered 12000 downloads in 5 days. Meanwhile, Viz plans to tie-in an Ultra Maniac manga preview with the first volume of the anime*, and have announced similar plans for Fullmetal Alchemist. I won't even try to put a spin on the resounding sales potential of "moe" (that's a two-syllable word, not the Stooge), because that's its own brand of creepy.
And finally, Production I.G has put up its website for the anime movie adaptations of Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC. There's not a whole lot of preview imagery available yet, but considering that this is the studio that produced the highly lauded Ghost in the Shell franchise, I expect the animation to be nothing less than stellar.
*I just realized I do have this DVD on hand. The preview ... has left me feverishly counting the days until the July release. Wataru Yoshizumi won me over back with Marmalade Boy, and it looks like she's done it again.
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I just love the title "Ultra Maniac". It never ceases to amaze me the interesting combinations of random english words that they come up with in Japan. :)
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