Manga News and Information
August, 2006ComiPress will be going through some upgrades in the next few weeks, which may result in less news and some features not working, please bear with us as we implement some exciting new features! Serialization update from Shounen, Seinen, and other Male oriented Anthologies.
The anime Saint Seiya Tenkai-hen - Overture (Os Cavaleiros do Zodaco - O Filme: Prologo do Cu - portuguese title) will be delayed in Brazil. The initial date was set for September, but now the film will arrive in October instead. The voice actors have already been chosen.
Gisaku is a Spanish anime-style anime that will arrive on the Brazilian market in the form of DVD. Gardena, CA, August 8, 2006 - Digital Manga Publishing wrapped up its summer convention season with new title announcements at its DMP panel at Otakon 2006. Flower of Life by Fumi Yoshinaga joins Vampire Hunter D and Megami DX in Digital Manga Publishing's line-up for 2007. The announcement of a Chinese film version of Slam Dunk has triggered an immense response from fans within China. Diehard fans of the Slam Dunk anime were exceptionally critical, fearing the classic series would be ruined just like what happened to the novels of Jin Yong (the film version of the novels weren't exactly great). The diehard fans declared that they would target the lead role actors Li Xue Qin (Kaede Rukawa) and Li Yi Lin (Hanamichi Sakuragi). The fans trash-talked the actors on bulletin boards, some of the more extreme SD fanatics announced that they plan to attack the two actors in an effort to prevent them from destroying the image of Slam Dunk. RICHMOND, CA - August 7, 2006 - Prepare for a breath of fresh in Infinity Studios, LLC's serious love drama Unbalance Unbalance Volume 1, a 200 page Korean color graphic novel (art work by Soo-Hyon Lee and story by Dall-Young Lim) which ships early October. With so many graphic novels falling into the love-comedy category, Unbalance Unbalance Volume 1 is a welcome change of pace with the serious love-drama many fans have been demanding. Baltimore, MD- August 07, 2006 - Alas the Otakon 2006 is over. The DramaQueen Staff had a wonderful time at this marvelous convention and wants to thank all her fans and the staff members of Otakon for all their support and love. However we did not leave the convention without giving our fans an interesting industry/yaoi panel!!! During this panel we announced the following great new manga & manhwa titles and also announced our street release date for Rush, an original western Yaoi anthology: A new manga based on the Negima anime will start serialization in the November issue of Comic BomBom (10/14), the artist will be Takuya Fujima. DramaQueen has announced the following new licenses at Otakon: Yaoi: Manhwa: Brazilian brothers Monica and Mauricio Somenzari Leite Olivas are the winners of World Cosplay Summit 2006. The two cosplayed as Rosiel and Alexiel from Angel Sanctuary. Go Nagai (from the jury) said that the two brothers represented Brazil well: "Their presentation was good, and impressed all us". This is the first time Brazil participated in the World Cosplay Summit. The Editor-in-Chief of the popular shoujo manga magazine "Shoujo Comic" (Sho-comi) was disciplinarily dismissed on June 27th because of embezzlement. According to Shogakukan's public relations department, the Editor-in-Chief fabricated bills and claimed fake expenditure of over 10 million yen. The man was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Sho-comi in July 2004. From around the Spring of 2003 till the Spring of 2006, the man claimed approximately 100,000 yen over and over on the bills of a bar. When the Editor-in-Chiefâs superior discovered his suspicious claims and questioned him, he confessed to the embezzlement. The man has since compensated for all of the embezzled money, and Shougakukan doesn't intend to charge him. Shougakukan's public relations department stated: "we will increase our education on compliance." The MEST (Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Technology) has accepted the establishment of the Department of Manga at the Tokyo Polytechnic University and the Image Arts Faculty at the Ritsumeikan University this coming spring. Both universities will begin working on the installation of the new courses in their media contents field. New licenses announced at Otakon: Tokyopop: DMP: June Manga: DMP announced that 801 Media Inc., a new yaoi manga publisher, which will be managed by people from DMP, will make its debut at this year's Yaoi Con. World Cosplay Summit - or simply WCS - brings together the best cosplayers from around the world in a competition for the title of "worldâs best cosplayer". WCS is organized yearly by Aichi TV. The main ceremony of WCS 2006 takes place today and tomorrow in Nagoya (JP). Asuka Shinsha's manga illustration magazine, SS, is now accepting illustrations for its Vol.7 issue, which will be released in October. The deadline is August 25th. Should there be a stylebook for manga? Irresponsible Pictures takes an in-depth look at this issue. On this week's USA Todays top 150 chart, Viz's Naruto vol.10 placed #133, Tokyopop's Kingdom Hearts vol.4 ends up at #148, and Del Reyâs Tsubasa vol.10 hits #95. According to Rumic World, Rumiko Takahashi's One-Pound Gospel will resume serialization in Young Sunday No. 52 (11/22), and will end after a 5-part storyline.
Mexican publisher Editorial Vid, through it's popup "monthly releases" window, has announced the following new titles: - Monster (August 1) The Hong Kong Ani-Com/ 3rd Hong Kong Game Fair is finally over, and this year's attendance figure is the highest ever. 80,000 showed up on the opening first day, the average attendance number over the weekend is 112,000, and the final night of the convention saw 78,000 fans attend. An estimated 490,000 people attended this year's Hong Kong Comic Fest over the course of 5 days, which is 16% higher than last year's numbers. |
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