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
You've heard of the Kanji-kentei exam right? Its a nationwide exam that you can take and receive proof of your kanji knowledge and show it to your prospecive employer. Well saddle up your otaku brain because now you can take ...Read More
Deb Aoki of About.com let's us know about an exhibition of artwork honouring Osamu Tezuka, our lord and saviour who created Astro Boy, at Parco (a department store in Shibuya). She links to a very nice gallery at Mainichi Daily ...Read More
As Hiroshima's Hibakusha stadium prepares to close Keiji Nakazawa, the mangaka behind Barefoot Gen, talks about his first job painting the signs at the stadium and a baseball manga he wrote called "The Hiroshima Carp Story". Hibakusha: End of an era, ...Read More
Mainichi news has this great photo gallery up at the moment of photos from this anime car convention held in Odaiba. This seems to be the latest fad (along with dancing to the ending theme of Haruhi and Vagina in ...Read More
Yomiuri had this great interview with Vagabond artist Takehiko Inoue about his not so new manga series Real, a human drama piece about wheelchair bound basketball players. Mangaka Inoue keeps it 'Real' / Work relies on disabled athletes' input [via Daily ...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
