FuguTabetai.com has published a detailed coverage of the Kyoto International Manga Museum that opened last month.

A new live-action film based on Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys manga has been announced and is set to come out in 2008.

20th Century Boys recently
returned to the pages of Big Comic Spirits after going on hiatus for over eight months.

Source: eiga.com

The Japanese government is running a full-page advertisement in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine No.52 (on sale November 29th), which read "Stop! Bullying." This is Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instructed that the ad be published in both shonen and shoujo manga magazines for the very first time, stating that "children will not read the ad if they are run in newspapers."

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Yu Yu Journal's recent article on sexually explicit content in shoujo manga received a large number of replies from its readers. As a result, the site has published a follow-up article.

According to the article, many readers said the publishers need to be regulated; however, there were some who expressed that adult should also be more concerned about this problem.

A mother of three from Toyama city, who believes that a moral committee for children's magazine is needed, said:

"Children need to know more about the bright side of love, sex and human. We should be more concerned about passing on the right information to children so they grow up to be healthy adults.

Sex education is still not doing its job in some schools and families."

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The Association of Copyright for Computer Software (ACCS) and the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) have released a report estimating the damage caused by the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program Winny to the Japanese entertainment industry.

A test was conducted on October 10th, where Winny activities were closely monitored during a 6-hour time period. According to the report, there are currently over 210,000 Winny users illegally pirating anime, manga, games, softwares and music, causing over 9.5 billion yen worth of damage to the Japanese entertainment industry.

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Ogamiya Yokochou Tenmatsuki by Fukusuke Miyamoto will be adapted into an TV drama series. The first episode will premier on December 2nd. Haimiya Yokochou Tenmatsuki is currently serialized in Ichijinsha's Comic Zero-Sum.

Manga top 10 according to Tohan.

1. Fullmetal Alchemist vol.15
2. Real vol.6
3. xxxHOLiC vol.10
4. Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle vol.17
5. Black Lagoon vol.6
6. Oh My Goddess! vol.34
7. Hajime no Ippo vol.78
8. Kindaichi Case Files - Gokumonjuku Satsujin Jiken part 1+2
9. Bokura ga Ita vol.11
10. Beck vol.28

Recently a conversation was held by Kyoto Seika University's newly established manga department between manga artist Naoki Urasawa, creator of popular series such as Yawara!, Monster, and 20th Century Boys, and Takashi Nagasaki, a manga producer who once worked with Urasawa. The topic of the conversation was centered on the difficulties in creating a positive relationship between manga artists and their editors. Below is a translation of the report from Kobe Shimbun regarding the conversation.

The Relationship between a Manga Artist and an Editor is Collaboration

Naoki Urasawa is talented enough to be able to draw two manga at the same time, one for a weekly magazine (20th Century Boys in Big Comic Spirits) and the other a bi-weekly magazine (Pluto in Big Comic Original). However, Urasawa attributes his success to hard work:

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Two new manga magazine released in November:

Akita Shoten:
- Nyan Tomo (???????????????)
Release Date: November 20th
Price: 390 Yen
Info: "Cute cat manga magazine."

Home-Sha:
- Sonotoki Rekishi ga Ugoita Comic han (??????????????????????????? ???????????????)
Release Date: November 17th
Price: 360 Yen
Info: Seinen; Comic Tokumori special issue. Jidaigeki manga magazine.

Anime media website .Anime has released the "Zero" pre-issue of its upcoming anime news and information webzine "Tornado Base." The pre-issue of the new web magazine comes with a special Gundam feature.