gendomike and animemiz talk at length about one of the winter season’s highlights, Ano Natsu de Matteru—their praises and reservations. Spoilers ahoy!
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Our very own animemiz and The Paper went to the L’Arc-en-Ciel concert at Madison Square Garden last night. Here’s their report. Photo gallery at the bottom of the post!
This series is called PoyoPoyo, but I can’t help but keep on calling it Maru PoyoPoyo. “Maru” is Japanese for “round”…and that is what Poyo the cat is like. On first glance, he looks like a pillow or a delightful challenging toy to get in a UFO Catcher. Why do I call this series a “feline [...]
Yoshizawa Akira would have been 101 years old today, if he was still living. He is credited with popularizing and introducing to the world the wonders of modern “origami.” Origami is Japanese for paper folding, and while this centuries old origins of folding origami has been sketchy or challenged. Across the globe, people uses the [...]
Something to be commended.. is the enthusiasm for mangaka to continue on drawing, due to a love/passion for their craft. Like a geisha perfecting their skills with years of relentless practice… of course in this case, the editor is going to end up pushing the mangaka in their grueling schedule to meet deadlines. Avoidance of [...]
There you have it. Anime Diet’s first time at MangaNEXT, and just to sum it up. It was a great convention, and definitely as a fan of manga, a convention to not be missed. Take a peek through the posts I was able to write.. .and definitely don’t miss out on the next MangaNEXT, and [...]
Just a week ago.. I was in New Jersey listening to the Saturday Fan Q&A panels for Tomo Maeda and Makoto Tateno. I ended up tweeting my way through the two Q&A’s, so here are my tweets and explanations in a linear fashion. animemiz: Sitting at Makoto Tateno q&a.. animemiz: Correction at Maeda-sensei panel. My game plan [...]
A complete transcript of a panel about the state of the US manga industry and its challenges, held at this year’s MangaNEXT convention.
Felipe Smith, mangaka of Peepo Choo was a guest at this year’s MangaNEXT. He is one of the few foreigners that have gotten a chance to work exclusively at Japan as a mangaka. Prior to that American readers may have known him from MBQ an OEL manga that was released from Tokyopop. I was able [...]
As one of the few industry companies at MangaNEXT, Gen Manga publishes new doujinshi’s straight from Japanese creators. On the Friday of MangaNEXT, Robert McGuire, editor and president of Gen Manga had a panel that was attended by a small group. Doujinshi gets confused as fan made copies of licensed proprieties, but McGuire sets the record straight [...]
Erica Friedman (@yuricon) and Sean Gaffney (@toukochan) hosts this panel on a genre of manga that does not get as much props as it deserves. Among the numerous titles out there. What is good? What are ones to perhaps avoid. This is not a panel that would suggest for attendees where there is just lesbian [...]
Yes you would have to have microscopic vision to see it, but in a nutshell, the image above was my schedule for MangaNEXT. The purpose of this entry is to highlight a portion of panels I was able to attend, yet do not have as much notes or tweets about, so I can easily sum [...]
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