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Category: Manga

  • Otaku USA 1

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    The first issue of OTAKU USA, a new magazine edited by Patrick Macias, is now out. You should be able to find it at local magazine newsstands, but if not, then you can always subscribe.

  • Keitai Manga

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    THE JAPAN TIMES has a piece up on mobile phone-formatted manga, which to me, really does sound like something I’d like to see grow even more (including from North American publishers).

  • Otaku USA Magazine

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    Big news for Patrick Macias, who’s back in town now. Sovereign Media Inc., an active interest niche magazine publishing company that publishes SCI FI — the official magazine of the SCI FI Channel, is launching Otaku USA Magazine in June. Patrick Macias, a correspondent for the NHK World Television show Tokyo Eye and author of…

  • Nagi Noda + Osamu Tezuka Collaboration T-Shirt at Uniqlo

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    I stopped by the Uniqlo flagship store in Ginza yesterday — the one designed by KDa — and picked up the t-shirt you see pictured above for my wife (they only have them for women), a collaboration tee between Nagi Noda and Osamu Tezuka. It’s a page from Tezuka’s PRINCESS KNIGHT (RIBBON NO KISHI) manga,…

  • Naoki Urasawa Documentary

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    Just now I was watching an interview/documentary on NHK’s PROFESSIONAL covering mangaka Naoki Urasawa (MONSTER, 20TH CENTURY BOYS, PLUTO). It was quite interesting hearing him explain how he never uses expressions or actions that aren’t realistic — for instance, the wide-eyed surprise expression you tend to see in comics/manga all the time, or a hand…

  • Call for American Otaku

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    Are you an American otaku looking to share your passion? If so, Patrick Macias needs you for his next book project, AMERICAN OTAKU PEOPLE RETSUDEN.

  • Comic Ganbo

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    Free manga? Sure, I’m all from that! From Anime News Network: According to the Mainichi Shinbun, venture publishing firm Dejima will begin distribution of a free manga magazine, called “Comic Ganbo”, at 30 Tokyo-area train stations. While many free publications (also referred to as “free papers”), such as magazines and advertising circulars, are already available…

  • Otome Road Expert Needed

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    Are you a girl — and a foreigner — who regularly checks out Otome Road in Ikebukuro? Would you like to talk about it on TV? If so, get in touch with me.