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  • Because Dragonball Evolution was obviously such a smash hit (sarcasm, chill out internet) Hollywood has geared itself up again for another remake and this time it’s AKIRA! And who better to play the teenage protagonist than a 46 year old Keanu Reeves. I loved him in Johnny Mnemonic, Keeanu Reeves = Cyberpunk but I think Todd Brown of Twitch-film.net summarises the fact best that it is the final nail of credibility in the Akira movie coffin. My most recent cinema adventure was Thor and it had got me thinking how comic book adaptation movies have really come along way from the travesty that...0May 11, 2011

    Keanu Reeves as Kaneda and Hollywood’s failure with reanimetion.

    Because Dragonball Evolution was obviously such a smash hit (sarcasm, chill out internet) Hollywood has geared itself up again for another remake and this time it’s AKIRA! And who better to play the teenage protagonist than a 46 year old Keanu Reeves. I loved him in Johnny Mnemonic, Keeanu Reeves = Cyberpunk but I think Todd Brown of Twitch-film.net summarises the fact best that it is the final nail of credibility in the Akira movie coffin. My most recent cinema adventure was Thor and it had got me thinking how comic book adaptation movies have really come along way from the travesty that…

  • Heritage VIZ translator / proto-English manga deity Matt Thorn discusses how TokyoPop changed the industry by producing cheaper manga and what effect that had on the rest of the industry. Matt Thorn’s Blog · The TokyoPop Effect.0May 11, 2011

    Matt Thorn on The TokyoPop Effect

    Heritage VIZ translator / proto-English manga deity Matt Thorn discusses how TokyoPop changed the industry by producing cheaper manga and what effect that had on the rest of the industry. Matt Thorn’s Blog · The TokyoPop Effect.

  • Welcome readers who found this site in Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives. This is the project space we used to display our translations for the Manga Translation Workshop.  Please note that the wiki mentioned in the paper is broken at the moment and I’m having trouble getting it back together again but I’m trying to at least get some of the translation scripts posted. Other than that please enjoy reading our translations.0February 17, 2010

    Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives

    Welcome readers who found this site in Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives. This is the project space we used to display our translations for the Manga Translation Workshop.  Please note that the wiki mentioned in the paper is broken at the moment and I’m having trouble getting it back together again but I’m trying to at least get some of the translation scripts posted. Other than that please enjoy reading our translations.

  • 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 in English. The guide is written by Toshimichi Nozoe after hearing complaints from an English speaking colleague about the the difficulty of getting around Akihabara for foreigners and created the guide in a manga style told from the point of view of two maids. For some reason none of the new’s sites, including The Star and even Kotaku! (what’s the...0May 10, 2009

    An Akihabara guide aimed at foreigners

    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 in English. The guide is written by Toshimichi Nozoe after hearing complaints from an English speaking colleague about the the difficulty of getting around Akihabara for foreigners and created the guide in a manga style told from the point of view of two maids. For some reason none of the new’s sites, including The Star and even Kotaku! (what’s the…

  • 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 one of Japan’s most famous exports, with its credentials boosted further by a Japanese creation scooping an Oscar this year for Best Animated Short Film. While Japan is currently home to an annul ten-day Japan Media Arts Festival, there is currently no national space where a permanent collection has been collated. From video games to pop art, the...0April 10, 2009

    Japan to get new pop-culture museum

    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 one of Japan’s most famous exports, with its credentials boosted further by a Japanese creation scooping an Oscar this year for Best Animated Short Film. While Japan is currently home to an annul ten-day Japan Media Arts Festival, there is currently no national space where a permanent collection has been collated. From video games to pop art, the…

  • 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 Kevin Yamagata, a half Japanese-American comic strip artist working in the United States with his series “Billy Bat” but returns to Japan after FBI agents comandeer his office to spy on a neighbor who has been fingered as a communist sympathizer. The mystery of Billy Bat quickly expands to include murder–seemingly involving Yamagata–and a mysterious bat symbol that seems to...0February 15, 2009

    Urasawa’s new manga, Billy Bat?

    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 Kevin Yamagata, a half Japanese-American comic strip artist working in the United States with his series “Billy Bat” but returns to Japan after FBI agents comandeer his office to spy on a neighbor who has been fingered as a communist sympathizer. The mystery of Billy Bat quickly expands to include murder–seemingly involving Yamagata–and a mysterious bat symbol that seems to…

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  • Because Dragonball Evolution was obviously such a smash hit (sarcasm, chill out internet) Hollywood has geared itself up again for another remake and this time it’s AKIRA! And who better to play the teenage protagonist than a 46 year old Keanu Reeves. I loved him in Johnny Mnemonic, Keeanu Reeves = Cyberpunk but I think Todd Brown of Twitch-film.net summarises the fact best that it is the final nail of credibility in the Akira movie coffin. My most recent cinema adventure was Thor and it had got me thinking how comic book adaptation movies have really come along way from the travesty that...

    Keanu Reeves as Kaneda and Hollywood’s failure with reanimetion.

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    Because Dragonball Evolution was obviously such a smash hit (sarcasm, chill out internet) Hollywood has geared itself up again for another remake and this time it’s AKIRA! And who better to play the teenage protagonist than a 46 year old Keanu Reeves. I loved him in Johnny Mnemonic, Keeanu Reeves = Cyberpunk but I think Todd Brown of Twitch-film.net summarises the fact best that it is the final nail of credibility in the Akira movie coffin. My most recent cinema adventure was Thor and it had got me thinking how comic book adaptation movies have really come along way from the travesty that...

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  • After 3 attempts to install it, I really want to make wordpress the front page for the site. Hopefully this time I won’t break it and lose all the posts I had made. While I don’t believe in putting something up on the web half done, I’m really gonna have to break my rule here and put up one segment of the new lost in scanlation site at a time.  So things might get a little buggy in the next couple of days.

    New site design

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    After 3 attempts to install it, I really want to make wordpress the front page for the site. Hopefully this time I won’t break it and lose all the posts I had made. While I don’t believe in putting something up on the web half done, I’m really gonna have to break my rule here and put up one segment of the new lost in scanlation site at a time.  So things might get a little buggy in the next couple of days.

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