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Matt Thorn on The TokyoPop Effect
Posted on May 11, 2011 | No CommentsHeritage 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. -
Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsWelcome 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. -
Japan to get new pop-culture museum
Posted on April 10, 2009 | No CommentsAccording 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... -
Urasawa’s new manga, Billy Bat?
Posted on February 15, 2009 | No CommentsOn 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... -
Tezuka Exhibition in Tokyo
Posted on January 31, 2009 | No CommentsThe 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, his medical license and original Astro Boy artwork. During his 42-year career as a cartoonist, Tezuka produced about 7,000 works featuring nearly 1,000 characters, and he is thought to have churned out about 150,000 pages of artwork. By examining three of his most famous creations–Astro Boy, Black Jack and Phoenix–part of the exhibition will focus on themes that Tezuka... -
Kazuo Umezu’s Casa
Posted on January 29, 2009 | No CommentsI 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 fellow neighbours over his outlandish new house design. Seemingly out of place in a black suit rather than his usual red and white striped sweater, Umezu at least wore a striped tie displaying his signature colours to the hearing. Some one’s posted a video of a news report about the house with one neighbourhood resident refering to its striped colors... -
![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 up an article about the latest bilingual Kosaku Shima comics and go into the history behind this character. If you haven’t read this series I suggest you get a hold of the Kodansha bilingual release, although not comphresensive of the series they are well translated and are great for language study. Business hero [via The Star]](http://www.lostinscanlation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/3208wb0-115x115.jpg "Japan’s Favourite Sarari-Man")
Japan’s Favourite Sarari-Man
Posted on January 27, 2009 | No CommentsHave 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 up an article about the latest bilingual Kosaku Shima comics and go into the history behind this character. If you haven’t read this series I suggest you get a hold of the Kodansha bilingual release, although not comphresensive of the series they are well translated and are great for language study. Business hero [via The Star] -
![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 at the museum. Exhibit shows the face of Ishinomori as an animator [via Daily Yomiuri]](http://www.lostinscanlation.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/cyborg_009-115x115.jpg "Ishinomori Animation Exhibition on in Tokyo")
Ishinomori Animation Exhibition on in Tokyo
Posted on December 16, 2008 | No CommentsThe 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 at the museum. Exhibit shows the face of Ishinomori as an animator [via Daily Yomiuri] -
![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 the Master of Manga [ via Electric Ant]](http://www.lostinscanlation.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/abe_cover-115x115.jpg "Interview with Frederik Schodt")
Interview with Frederik Schodt
Posted on December 10, 2008 | 1 CommentThe 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 the Master of Manga [ via Electric Ant] -
Suehiro Maruo on Takeshi no daredemo PIKAN
Posted on November 27, 2008 | No CommentsGrotesque 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!]