Navigating Akihabara for the first time is an intense experience (even the tenth time can be overwhelming) but don't despair, according to The Star, foreign visitors to Tokyo's anime zone can get their geek on with a new guide available ...Read More
One of Tezuka's more serious works (I guess it could even be considered Gekiga). Vampire is about a young vampire called Toppei who leaves his village in the mountains to become an animator at Mushi Puro (Osamu Tezuka's animation studio). ...Read More
According to London's Telegraph, a new pop-culture museum is in the works: Masterminded by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, it will become the first government-built national centre dedicated to uniting modern Japanese media arts, according to the Asahi Shimbun. Cutting-edge animation is ...Read More
On the heels of the impending conclusion of his Tezuka tribute manga Pluto, Naoki Urasawa has already begun serialising his next series Billy Bat. Intended to educate the younger generation on post war Japan, Billy Bat tells the story of ...Read More
The Edo Tokyo Museum (in Tokyo), is running an exhibition from April 18th to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the birth of Osamu Tezuka. Sponsored by The Yomiuri Shimbun and others, the exhibition will include such items as Tezuka's work desk, ...Read More
I dunno, its getting so that you can't erect a crazy giant striped house in a nice neighbourhood anymore. Certifiable avant-garde manga artist Kazuo Umezu (72), author of Makoto-chan and Cat-eyed Boy, won a legal battle waged against him by ...Read More
Have you ever heard about Section Cheif Kosaku Shima? Its a long running manga series (since 1983) about a salary-man who rises to the top of his company through legitimate and sometimes illegitimate means. Malaysian online-newspaper The Star have put ...Read More
The Daily Yomiuri have an article up promoting the Ishinomori Shotaro-ten: Ishinomori Anime no Sekai exhibition being held at the Suginami Animation Museum. It talks a little bit about Ishimori Shotaro's creations and goes on to talk about the exhibitions ...Read More
The advant-garde manga magazine Electric Ant have put up an amazing interview with Frederik Schodt, famous manga scholar and translator of many of Tezuka's books. A must read for anyone who is a fan of Tezuka's, Schodt's or both! Talking with ...Read More
Grotesque erotic horror mangaka Suehiro Maruo is interviewed on Beat Takeshi's variety show. SUEHIRO MARUO ON A BEAT TAKESHI VARIETY SHOW [via Same hat!Same hat!] Read More
