EL SEGUNDO, CA (September 9, 2011) – Duelists have been prepping for weeks to bring the heat to the first ever Yu-Gi-Oh! CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (YCS) ever held in South America. The South American YCS will be in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil on September 17th – 18th at the Centro de Convenciones de Guayaquil. This [...]
NEW YORK, NY – Beginning September 9th, Japan Flix will be streaming Japanese movies and television shows from distributor Media Blasters on the Japan Flix website (www.japanflix.com). Around twenty titles will become available over the next couple of months including Takashi Miike’s, Crows Zero and the mecha epic, Mazinkaiser SKL. “Media Blasters has many great [...]
Tokyo, JP, September 1, 2011 – PAPYLESS, the largest eBook store in Japan, is proud to announce the launch of global eBook Rental site “Renta!” on September 1st, 2011. “Renta!” provides about 4,000 Japanese Manga titles[1] and allows for universal access for Manga fans. Every month new titles will be added. “Renta!” aims to offer [...]
New Book on Hayao Miyazaki from Crescent Moon Publishing www.crmoon.com The Cinema of Hayao Miyazaki by Jeremy Mark Robinson Born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki is known as the ‘Japanese Disney’, a filmmaker as revered – and as popular – as Walt Disney or Steven Spielberg. Miyazaki, in short, is a true [...]
Nekocon is proud to welcome Donn Kinney as a guest this year. Donn began his career working in puppetry with his first art-related job in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 creature shop. After Ninja Turtles, Donn worked on several national and international puppet projects including The Fox Cubhouse, a combination of three shows produced [...]
New Company BDNA to Begin Operations October 2011 TOKYO, JAPAN – August 22, 2011 — NAMCO BANDAI Holdings Inc. and DeNA Co., Ltd. have announced today that NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of NAMCO BANDAI Holdings, and DeNA will broaden their existing relationship by establishing a joint venture, expressly created to deliver social [...]
Gardena, CA (August 18, 2011) – Digital Manga, Inc., one of the manga industry’s most unique and creative publishers, is proud to announce the launch of Harlequin manga titles to the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reading devices! In cooperation with SoftBank Creative Corp., Digital Manga will launch the first batch of 20 Harlequin manga titles [...]
Tokyo-based Samurai Factory announced that they have donated a total of over 70,000 manga and picture books throughout the areas affected by the earthquake/tsunami of March 11th in Tohoku Japan Aug 19, 2011 – Samurai Factory announced that they have completed delivery of over 70,000 manga and picture books to affected areas in the northeastern [...]
Unique Art Book Project In Partnership With Autodesk Will Curate Digital Artwork Created With Autodesk Sketchbook® Software Viz Media reaches out to visual, graphic and manga/comic-inspired artists to submit original work and participate in ART FOR HOPE, a special limited edition digital art book anthology, to be sold through VIZManga.com and the VIZ Manga App [...]
Gardena, CA (August 18, 2011) – Digital Manga, Inc., one of the manga industry’s most unique and creative publishers, is proud to announce the launch of Harlequin manga titles to the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reading devices! In cooperation with SoftBank Creative Corp., Digital Manga will launch the first batch of 20 Harlequin manga titles [...]
