Whether you're into creating comics or not, there's nothing quite like getting a chance to pick the brains of the best in the business. That exceedingly rare opportunity is rearing its head in English thanks to none other than JoJo's Bizarre Adventure creator Hirohiko Araki. …Read more »
Fans of cute girls and secondhand books: take note. The first trailer for Hinako Note , a new anime series based on the manga of the same name by Mitsuki, is out, and gives us our first listen to popular voice actress M.A.O in the …Read more »
Danica Davidson is a contributor to Otaku USA magazine, and she's also an author of her own books. In addition to her Minecraft novels, Danica's Manga Art for Beginners: How to Create Your Own Manga Drawings book, illustrated by Melanie Westin, just debuted. We took …Read more »
When it comes to books, VIZ Media is best-known for its manga, but it will also sometimes publish prose. Viz previously released the prose anthologies The Future Is Japanese and Phantasm Japan , and now there's the recently-released Hanzai Japan . Hanzai means “crime,” and …Read more »
Many fans of anime and manga are interested in learning about Japanese culture as a whole, and they will find a great source of information in the writings of Roland Kelts. Kelts’ father is American and his mother is Japanese, giving him a unique perspective …Read more »
At approximately one thousand pages, The Anime Encyclopedia is your go-to source for anime information. Written by anime academics Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, this is the third revised edition of the book. This edition has more than a thousand brand-new entries as it gives …Read more »
It must not be possible for Helen McCarthy to be bored. Along with writing books on anime and manga, designing needlework, penning her own poetry and speaking at conventions, she still comes up with plenty of fascinating ideas on what she’d like to do with …Read more »
Anime fans are often asked by non-fans about the anthropological, cultural and historical facts on anime, and Jonathan Clements’ latest book, Anime: A History , does a great job at telling anime’s background. Clements writes in his introduction, “There is... no full-length history of Japanese …Read more »
It’s quite possible you wouldn’t be reading this website without Frederik L. Schodt. It’s hard to overstate the impact the writer, translator and interpreter has had on western anime and manga fandom. Writing about manga before anybody in the States was even eating sushi, Schodt …Read more »
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