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 [...]
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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 [...]
Vertical Panel was an industry/Publisher panel ran by Ed Chavez (@vertical_ed), who has been dangling the announcement of three new titles prior to the convention via twitter. He had a similar presentation to last year’s industry panel at AnimeNEXT. Here are some of my notes: Chi’s Sweet Home with vol 8 has caught up with Japanese releases. [...]
I am glad that this year I was able to attend MangaNEXT. It is an intimate convention held this year at the Sheraton Meadowland Hotel & Conference Center that was one train ride from New York City on the New Jersey Transit paired with a complimentary shuttle from the hotel. MangaNEXT is known as the [...]
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