Welcome to another edition of Shinbun Saturday! If you live in the path of Winter Storm Jonas (better known as Snowzilla where I live), I hope you weathered the ice, snow, and flooding with minimal damage. Now, let’s take a look at the week in manga! What’s a mangaka to do when their comic becomes…
Shinbun Saturday: Awards, Anime Adaptations, and Car Parts, Oh My!
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you’re all nice and warm, especially if you live in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region like me and are currently enduring a snowpocalypse. When the snow’s coming down this fast and hard, there’s not much you can do except hunker down and wait it out. Perfect time to curl up with…
Shinbun Saturday: The Future of Manga is Digital
Happy Saturday, everyone! I don’t know about you, but winter has truly arrived here in the Mid-Atlantic and I’m having a difficult time rousing my energy. Hopefully, it’ll pass soon because I have things to do! It’s been a relatively slow news week in the manga world — probably because everyone is enthralled by the…
Shinbun Saturday: Bestselling Manga in the Year of the Monkey
Welcome to the first non-holiday weekend of 2016! Hope your holidays were restful and filled with delicious food and people. Now, it’s time to kick off the year in style! What news will 2016 bring to the manga world? Who knows? Let’s keep our fingers crossed that it’ll be interesting, exciting, and entertaining! For now,…
Shinbun Saturday: Farewell to a Beloved Manga Creator
Influential mangaka passes away Beloved mangaka Shigeru Mizuki passed away earlier this week at the age of 93. His manga GeGeGe no Kitaro is credited with encouraging Japan’s love of yokai. Mizuki kept working and producing new manga until his death. May all comic creators aspire to be as industrious as he was! Chinese nationals…
Shinbun Saturday: ’90s Manga Classic Takes the Stage
’90s manga Fushigi Yuugi gets stage musical adaptation The official website for the production based on Yuu Watase’s manga launched earlier this week. The role of heroine Miaka will be played by Reina Tanaka, a former member of girl group Morning Musume. This is the third time the manga has received a stage play. Hiromu…
Shinbun Saturday: Online Piracy Crackdown
Two Chinese nationals arrested for uploading manga Two Chinese men were arrested and charged with copyright violation for allegedly uploading pages from Shounen Jump. The Japanese deliveryman, Takehisa Hidaka, has also been arrested for providing the manga magazine without legal permission to three other Chinese nationals before this incident. While that charge involved the upload…
On Filipino Food and Identity: A Roundtable
Food: It nourishes us. It nurtures us. It comforts us. For immigrants, though, food can also provide a touchstone. A connection to a heritage that may be strained by distance and generations. Even if we don’t know any other aspect of our native culture, there’s a good chance we’ve been exposed to the food. Growing up,…
Shinbun Saturday: Manga Faces Bans and Criticism
Increasing pressure on Japan to ban manga featuring sexualizd portrayals of minors Earlier this week, a UN special envoy called for Japan to ban manga featuring sexualized images of children. The request comes after a new law criminalizing possession of child pornography came into effect this past summer. Under the law, manga containing pedophiliac content…
Shinbun Saturday: Osamu Tezuka Biography Comes to North American Shores
Stone Bridge Press to publish Osamu Tezuka biography Earlier this week, Stone Bridge Press announced that they would be releasing The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime, a manga-style biography next summer. At over 900 pages long, the book covers the entirety of Tezuka’s career–including his early successes. It’s a nice way…
5 Things From the Manga Prison School That Made It into the Anime
When I first heard that Prison School was getting an anime adaptation, my reaction was one of skepticism. It’s a raunchy sex comedy, after all. One of the regular characters is a buxom young woman who wears stiletto boots and a school uniform that leaves little to the imagination. Subway advertisements promoting the anime placed…
Shinbun Saturday: New Film Adaptations, New Licenses, New Chapters!
NYCC manga industry round-up New York Comic Con took place last weekend and the manga industry played a pretty big role! While I’m sure a lot of this had to do with Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto) being a guest, that was still great to see. The biggest news to come out of NYCC is probably the…