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Written by Brent
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Thursday, 30 June 2011 01:26 |
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 It's about time: Media Blasters has announced licensing of Bakuman, both seasons.
In fairness, there was probably a bidding war for Bakuman; it's certainly one of the hotter properties out there right now.
Of course, now the question is: How well will it sell? An anime about manga-ka can't have a mass appeal; it doesn't have the instant cache of ninjas or pirates.
Source: ANN 1, 2 |
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Written by Brent
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Sunday, 26 June 2011 22:45 |
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 Want to read some non-mainstream manga? The stuff that doesn't show up in Shonen Jump? Head over to GenManga.com, which has just launched the first issue of Gen, a manga magazine dedicated to underground Japanese manga, translated into English.
Even better? The first issue can be downloaded for free as a PDF.
That first issue contains four stories:
- Wolf, a strange sort of coming-of-age tale
- VS Aliens, a goofy high school romantic comedy
- KAMEN, a gritty shounen adventure set in feudal Japan
- Souls, an ethereal supernatural tale
KAMEN is clearly the first part of an ongoing story; the others appear to be standalone. They're all very Japanese.
Source: ANN |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 26 June 2011 14:21 |
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Written by Brent
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Sunday, 26 June 2011 19:24 |
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Robert's Anime Corner Store has announced that Funimation's delayed 14 releases across 10 titles, including Sgt. Frog, Noir, FMA: Brotherood, Noir, Soul Eater, Spice and Wolf, Eden of the East, Peacemaker Kurogane, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Dragon Ball Z. All the releases were for the July-to-September timeline, and all are being pushed back by 1 to 3 weeks.
This suggests a larger issue at Funimation, rather than just a problem with materials for one release.
Now, it could be anything, including technical problems with pressing discs. Interestingly, only DVDs and DVD/Blu-Ray combos are affected.
Source: ANN |
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Written by Brent
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Sunday, 26 June 2011 16:17 |
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 Himawari has been licensed by Maiden Japan (get it? get it?), a new North American licensor who'll be working with Section23 to distribute it.
Until now, Maiden Japan had only licensed ecchi magical girl parody Papillon Rose and the serious mystery Glass Maiden. Somewhat schizophrenic catalog.
Good to see a slightly older show get licensed. We need these smaller companies to license these more obscure titles.
Source: ANN |
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Written by Brent
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Sunday, 26 June 2011 13:09 |
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 The original Haruhi novel, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, has now sold over 1 million copies, according to Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten. It's the first light novel to cross that threshold for an individual volume.
I must imagine those sales were helped dramatically by the anime series. I suspect light novel authors will now be much more anxious to encourage anime adaptations of their work, to drive sales of the novels.
Now, if we could just get more of those novels in English....
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