Japundit reader Colin Fletcher writes in to alert us to a report about a maid coffee shop that has newly opened in Culver City, California.
Sandra Westwood, who oversees the cafe, worked most recently at the restaurants Bread and Brown Cafe in Manhattan. Earlier in her career, as a fashion model in Japan and Paris, she […]
The girl on the left of the above image is supposed to be Jesus Christ, who is is the object of the um. . . affections of the boy on the right.
A scanlation is can be downloaded here and here.
Via Topless Robot.
in what is one of the more disturbing trends in contemporary japan, the maid cafes and other perverted male otaku hang outs have spawned a new branch of cafes for female otaku, ones based one gay comic book porn. that’s right, women who want to indulge their childhood fantasy of young effeminate men dressed […]
The Tokyo District Court recently ordered two homepage owners and two Internet companies to pay 11 manga artists a total of 20.32 million yen for unauthorized uploading of the artists’ works.
According to the ruling, the two homepage maintainers scanned volumes of 45 titles, including [Tetsuya] Chiba’s Ashita no Joe, [Takehiko] Inoue’s Slam Dunk, [Hiroshi] […]
Negima Live Action from the creator of Love Hina, Ken Akamatsu. It will start in 2007-10-03
Opening Theme:
“Pink Generation” by Class 3-A of Mahora akademy
Ending Theme:
“Tsuyoku Naaare” by Wakatsuki Sara
The latest indications from the Japanese stock market seem to be that the country may be getting ready to go manga.
According to Nikko Cordial Securities, manga, anime and video game-related stocks have risen noticably following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s resignation announcment. They say this may be attributable to expectations that Taro Aso, an unabashed […]
The bi-lingual manga Ello Bello is going strong over at Rising Sun of Nihon, with Installment #8 posted recently. Go here to see all eight installments.
Bill Belew of Rising Sun of Nihon writes to tell us of a new manga feature on his blog.
Three times a week he will be publishing a manga by Kan Shinoy called Ello Bello, with the dialog presented in both Japanese and English.
Go here to find out more.
“Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is…There is no conclusion yet.” — Tezuka Osamu, 1969
David Pescovitz notes in Boing Boing that San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum has a […]
Continuing our travels with U.S. cartoonist Bill Griffith, who writes and draws “Zippy” in hundreds of newspapers around the world, including the Taipei Times and the Japan Times, a recent panel titled “Pacific Rim Shot” depicts a Taiwan-owned airlines called EVA AIRLINES, owned by the Evergreen Corporation, and famous for putting Hello Kitty on the […]
Taro Aso seems to be really serious about his “subculture democracy”, as he set up an International Manga Award destined to notable foreign manga cartoonists.
“I want to make the award something like the Nobel Prize for manga creators. Not as much money will be given as for the Nobel Prize, but we’d like to invite […]
Or so says some sections of the UK press:
It’s no surprise that both police and press are desperate for an angle. What’s more interesting is the spotlight of blame swinging towards such an obscure cranny of the cultural stage. Perhaps manga’s time has come.
What do you think?
We’ve heard a number of times that people around the world just can’t seem to get enough of Japanese anime and manga, and for many people these are their only sources of information about Japan.
That’s great, but it seems that like anything else, a love for anime and manga can become such an obsession that. […]
“Manga and anime are now Japan’s new ambassadors” or so claims Japan Times 25th March editorial. This write-up would have been just another rehash of what we have been hearing for a decade if the author didn’t go a step further in his reflection by trying to highlight some larger ramifications of this “mixed blessing […]
Proving it’s not all misguided marketing campaigns that get kawaii wrong, footage of a recent J-Pop event in London:
Ninomiya Tomoko got inspiration for a popular manga in Japan from a photograph of a piano in a messy room, according to the Mainichi Daily News. The piano belonged to a women named Noda Megume and the author and her inspiration still talk to each other from to this day. The photo […]
I read recently that the social skills of young people in Japan have become stunted because the Internet allows them to obtain autoerotic gratification without the need to go out and come into direct contact with other human beings.
Apparently in an attempt to take this trend one step further, here is a virtual pole dance […]
It’s fun to live in Japan. You get to enjoy many good things, like the warm feeling of hot canned coffee on a cold train platform, or the thrill of finding a girl’s phone number scrawled on the back of a chopstick wrapper after a night at an izakaya bar.
Just as a Hemmingway aficionado […]
Mitsunori Morita, president of Shabondama Soap Co., a Kitakyushu-based soap-making company, is doing something no one has ever done. He’s producing a manga… about soap!
His solid belief in the merit of additive-free soap, soap using only natural ingredients, has been made more accessible since a comic book was published by Tokyo-based publishing company, Gentosha.
The book, […]
Check out the Mainichi Daily News site called Manglish: Manga in English, which displays manga with the original Japanese intact. Simply mouse over a balloon and the corresponding English appears.
Supplementary notes provide interesting background information about expressions, puns and cultural background and enhance understanding of what is happening in the panels.
Great for manga fans and […]
