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 ...Read More
Taiyaki Magazine was a zine-publication we put together to for conventions to show people what we were up to and spread some of the manga love. Read More
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
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
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 ...Read More
