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Bleach The Movie In Movie Theatres Nationwide Soon
April 23rd, 2008 by Neil | 5 comments
VIZ Media, one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced that it will partner with NCM FATHOM, the entertainment division of National CineMedia, to present the epic action anime hit BLEACH THE MOVIE: MEMORIES OF NOBODY in more than 300 theatres across the country on June 11 and 12.
Adapted from the wildly popular animated series and a best-selling manga series (both distributed and published in North America by VIZ Media) by acclaimed Japanese artist Tite Kubo, BLEACH THE MOVIE: MEMORIES OF NOBODY will make its North American debut in this two-night theatre experience including an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the talent behind the characters as well as interviews of this highly-anticipated premiere with the Japanese Director, Noriyuki Abe, Producer Ken Hagino and Character Designer, Masashi Kudo.
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Adapted from the wildly popular animated series and a best-selling manga series (both distributed and published in North America by VIZ Media) by acclaimed Japanese artist Tite Kubo, BLEACH THE MOVIE: MEMORIES OF NOBODY will make its North American debut in this two-night theatre experience including an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the talent behind the characters as well as interviews of this highly-anticipated premiere with the Japanese Director, Noriyuki Abe, Producer Ken Hagino and Character Designer, Masashi Kudo.
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Dreamworks Will Make Live Action Ghost In The Shell
April 21st, 2008 by Neil | 6 comments
What's next after Transformers? Steven Spielberg is moving on to more worldly properties. With the recent acquisition of rights to the Japanese manga "Ghost in the Shell," by DreamWorks is set to to make a 3-D Live-Action version of the cyberpunk crime thriller.
Spielberg is said to have taken a personal interest in binging the project to DreamWorks who beat out two other competing studios, Universal and Sony, for the rights. 'Ghost in the Shell' is one of my favorite stories," Spielberg said. "It's a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks."
Published in 1989, "Ghost in the Shell" was Created by Masamune Shirow. Written as a post-cyberpunk drama, the story follows Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations team that work for the Section 9 arm of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission. Ghost in the Shell documents the team on technology-related crime missions that test their best fighting abilities. The original Manga story has been adapted into several anime films, a television series, video games and other products.
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Spielberg is said to have taken a personal interest in binging the project to DreamWorks who beat out two other competing studios, Universal and Sony, for the rights. 'Ghost in the Shell' is one of my favorite stories," Spielberg said. "It's a genre that has arrived, and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks."
Published in 1989, "Ghost in the Shell" was Created by Masamune Shirow. Written as a post-cyberpunk drama, the story follows Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations team that work for the Section 9 arm of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission. Ghost in the Shell documents the team on technology-related crime missions that test their best fighting abilities. The original Manga story has been adapted into several anime films, a television series, video games and other products.
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Viz Media Announces Plans New York Comic Con
April 17th, 2008 by Neil | 2 comments
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced its plans to participate in a variety of exhibits, special events, programming, panels and related industry roundtable discussions at the 2008 New York Comic Con, taking place April 18-20 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan. New York Comic Con has emerged as the East Coast's biggest and most popular pop culture convention covering the latest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television.
VIZ Media will welcome comics legend Stan Lee, creator of numerous iconic superheroes including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men, for a very special press event on April 18 in Room#1E09 to discuss ULTIMO – the historic collaboration between Lee and with Hiroyuki Takei, the creator of the popular SHAMAN KING manga series, published in North America by VIZ Media. The event, attended by Stan Lee, Takanori Asada (Editor, Jump SQ.), and SHONEN JUMP Editor-in-Chief Marc Weidenbaum, will highlight the collaboration and shed further light on the development of ULTIMO and the partnership with Hiroyuki Takei, as well as announce exciting news not yet shared regarding this title.
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VIZ Media will welcome comics legend Stan Lee, creator of numerous iconic superheroes including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men, for a very special press event on April 18 in Room#1E09 to discuss ULTIMO – the historic collaboration between Lee and with Hiroyuki Takei, the creator of the popular SHAMAN KING manga series, published in North America by VIZ Media. The event, attended by Stan Lee, Takanori Asada (Editor, Jump SQ.), and SHONEN JUMP Editor-in-Chief Marc Weidenbaum, will highlight the collaboration and shed further light on the development of ULTIMO and the partnership with Hiroyuki Takei, as well as announce exciting news not yet shared regarding this title.
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Amazon To Start Selling Doujinshi
June 23rd, 2006 by El Wiseguy | 12 comments
A few days after the American Amazon site began offering groceries, Amazon JP has started offering a consignment sales service. Called the 'e-Taku Sales Service' (e-Taku being a combination of the word 'itaku (consignment)' and the 'e-' prefix, favored by businesses around the globe in the heydays of the dot-com boom of the late 90's), it would allow individuals to consign products they own the rights to to Amazon, and in exchange for an annual membership fee of 9000 yen ($78.50 USD) and 40% of the price of the item (37% for games and software), Amazon would sell the item just like any other product, and offer 24/7 shipping.
Amazon is also planning on exploring options regarding self-published works which do not have ISBN or JAN codes (which currently cannot be sold on Amazon Marketplace), meaning that in the near future, it may be possible to buy doujinshi and original (non-commercial, fan-created) games on Amazon. Also, some people have speculated that this is a first step towards turning Amazon Marketplace into a consignment seller. If this does happen, it would no longer be necessary to pay shipping fees to individual sellers for each book, and books could be mass-ordered at once for free shipping.
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Amazon is also planning on exploring options regarding self-published works which do not have ISBN or JAN codes (which currently cannot be sold on Amazon Marketplace), meaning that in the near future, it may be possible to buy doujinshi and original (non-commercial, fan-created) games on Amazon. Also, some people have speculated that this is a first step towards turning Amazon Marketplace into a consignment seller. If this does happen, it would no longer be necessary to pay shipping fees to individual sellers for each book, and books could be mass-ordered at once for free shipping.
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Kids Who Can't Read Mangas
June 23rd, 2006 by El Wiseguy | 19 comments
Livedoor News has an article commenting on a recent phenomenon in Japan, and perhaps a true testament to the era of information overload we live in: kids who don't know how to read manga.
It would still be understandable if you were trying to read complex literature, and told me "I don't really get it." But what do you mean, "manga is too difficult to understand"!?
Apparently, we are seeing kids nowadays who do not understand the basic concepts for reading manga, like 'speech bubbles' and 'panels.' Not understanding how panel works, OK I guess you can't help it if you're a young child who's never touched manga before, but speech bubbles? That's the absolute essence of manga! Just why are we seeing this sort of phenomenon?
Apparently, we are seeing kids nowadays who do not understand the basic concepts for reading manga, like 'speech bubbles' and 'panels.' Not understanding how panel works, OK I guess you can't help it if you're a young child who's never touched manga before, but speech bubbles? That's the absolute essence of manga! Just why are we seeing this sort of phenomenon?
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It would still be understandable if you were trying to read complex literature, and told me "I don't really get it." But what do you mean, "manga is too difficult to understand"!?
Apparently, we are seeing kids nowadays who do not understand the basic concepts for reading manga, like 'speech bubbles' and 'panels.' Not understanding how panel works, OK I guess you can't help it if you're a young child who's never touched manga before, but speech bubbles? That's the absolute essence of manga! Just why are we seeing this sort of phenomenon?
Apparently, we are seeing kids nowadays who do not understand the basic concepts for reading manga, like 'speech bubbles' and 'panels.' Not understanding how panel works, OK I guess you can't help it if you're a young child who's never touched manga before, but speech bubbles? That's the absolute essence of manga! Just why are we seeing this sort of phenomenon?
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