By gia on March 25th, 2008
Cons, Manga, News, OEL, Western News
Tags: eiki eiki, le peruggine, mikiyo tsuda, OEL, taishi zaou, yaoi jamboree, yj08
No, seriously! In addition to Yaoi Press’ western BL creators le Peruggine (a pair from Italy, creators of Cain), Digital Manga Publishing is bringing Princess Princess’s Mikiyo Tsuda (who is also known as Taishi Zaou, creator of a dozen or so hot manga and doujinshi) and Eiki Eiki, the creator of The Art of Loving Dear Myself, and World’s End.
The two have collaborated on several works, including the yaoi manga Color and, interestingly, a collection of yuri short stories called Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu (I’ve seen some of it; it’s hot).
The Jamboree takes place in Arizona June 20-22nd (it’s the same weekend as AnimeNEXT, so I can’t attend. Damnit. *taishi zaou squeeeeeee*).
Since I like some historical fiction, I always have friends recommending Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series to me (I’ve never gotten around to it, though). And somehow I missed word from ICv2 that Del Rey is publishing a manga set in the same universe. The manga will be written by Gabaldon, who has apparently written some comic scripts for Disney in the past, and illustrated by Hoang Nguyen, and naturally feature the characters and setting of the Outlander series (a.k.a. both 18th and 20th century Scotland– yes, we’re talking time travel).
Original source: ICv2.
Secondary source: Dear Author.
So this morning as I was going through various blogs and blog alerts, I noticed that there seem to be quite a few people talking about manga versus American comics and the like. A few examples:
Sporadic Sequentialist wonders why dedicated manga companies don’t send their release schedules to manga and anime news sites. A valid point. I guess we bloggers have been visiting publishers’ sites and amazon.com to get the dates for so long we’re all just taking it for granted?
A writer at comics2film lambasts “manga-style” and OEL, saying that there IS no such thing as “manga style.” He challenges readers to find a similar thread between items like Robot, Fruits Basket, and Gon. He may have a point, but I would argue that manga style is one of those things (and I hate that I’m using a definition of obscenity for this, but it’s still true): I can’t give solid rules on what makes something manga-style or not, but I know it when I see it. (There are some common aspects, like the big eyes, but for every rule there are exceptions.)
And I also heard that the Sci-Fi Channel’s AniMonday block will now be showing Titan A.E., that 2000 attempt by Fox to make an anime-style flick (I have no idea if it’s any good; haven’t seen it).
Hmmm!
By gia on August 20th, 2007
Commentary, Manga, Manga, News, Western News
Tags: After-School-Nightmare, ala, aya-nakahara, emma, fumi-yoshinaga, good-witch-of-the-west, haruhiko-momokawa, hideyuki-kurata, kaoru-mori, kekkaishi, king-of-thorn, Lovely-Complex, manga-shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet, matsuri-hino, me2, mizuho-kusanai, mushishi, noriko-ogiwara, OEL, princess-resurrection, richard-appignanesi, setona-mizushiro, sho-murase, sonia-leong, spiral, the-moon-and-the-sandals, Train+Train, vampire-knight, yalsa, yasunori-mitsunaga, yellow-tanabe, yuji-iwahara, yuki-urushibara
Sorry about the weekend quietness, but I was at a RennFaire. I’m back now!
The American Library Association has nominated another round of books for its Young Adult Library Services Association Award, and as usual, some manga made it to the list of “great graphic novels.” A lot of them are OEL, but here goes:
Let’s see, going down the list from top to bottom:
TOKYOPOP’s Avalon High manga, based on Meg Cabot’s novel series.
Dramacon, by the much-celebrated Svetlana Chmakova.
The Avril Lavigne manga Make 5 Wishes.
Anike Hage’s original German-language manga Gothic Sports.
Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino is the first actual Japanese manga mentioned.
Yuji Iwahara’s King of Thorn.
Hideyuki Kurata’s Train + Train.
Mizuho Kusanagi’s Spiral.
Yasunori Mitsunaga’s Princess Resurrection.
Setona Mizushiro’s After School Nightmare (all four volumes!).
Kaoru Mori’s Emma (all four volumes).
Sho Murase’s Me2.
Aya Nakahara’s Love*Com/Lovely Complex.
Noriko Ogiwara / Haruhiko Momokawa’s The Good Witch of the West volume 1.
Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet by Richard Appignanesi and Sonia Leong.
Yellow Tanabe’s Kekkaishi, volumes 7-9.
Yuki Urushibara’s Mushishi.
Fumi Yoshinaga’s The Moon and the Sandals.
The end! And now, some commentary. Read the rest of this entry »
By gia on July 26th, 2007
Cons, Manga, News, Western News
Tags: gocomics, mobile, OEL, princess-ai, sdcc, sdcc07, TOKYOPOP
Looks like I’ll be able to liveblog. ♥ VIZ’s panel starts in 30 minutes. I’ll be liveblogging it on the forums, right here.
Right then, I only caught the tail end of TOKYOPOP’s part of the GoComics panel, but hit the jump for the list of all the titles that they’re making available on cell phones -all OEL titles. I’m not 100% sure that I got them all since I just slipped in, but I’m betting other people will get more thorough reports up soon - I’ll update this entry when I have all the info.
That said, I THINK - and this is what they talked about before I got there, so I could be way off - that what they’re doing is offering package accounts, so you’ll have access to as much (or as little) of their titles as you want.
Right then, the list. Read the rest of this entry »