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Demon Slayer in Concert at Barbican London

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Square Enix Manga & Books Team Up With Penguin Random House to Launch Comic Partner Initiative @square-enix-books.com

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Ever think about improving your beginner's Japanese reading comprehension through children's picture books? You can build vocab and find enchanting illustrations along the way in Timothy to Sarah no Paatii. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

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Does anyone else in anime press circles get this? We get detailed press releases from Japanese PR firms with assets and a press release in English for a new show. Lots of details, except how to actually watch the show. Where is it streaming?! Help us PR firm! It’s a repeat pattern for us!

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Katsuhiro Otomo ("Akira") will be Naoki Urasawa's guest on his next "Manben Neo" show :-] Broadcast March 29 on NHK in Japan. www.nhk.jp/p/manben/ts/...

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Some concept arts from "The Twilight World" french/german animated feature project directed by Werner Herzog (Psyop / Sun Creature). Story: Michael Arias ("Tekkonkinkreet") & Luca Vitale. Visual development: Linnea Serte & Katsuya Terada.

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We're proud to launch the Comic Partner initiative in partnership with Penguin Random House to provide comic shops with additional resources and perks to support and aid the growth of their manga sales!

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Some good stuff: My team's working on English editions of The Art of Witch Hat Atelier (a hardcover originally created for Shirahama-sensei's visit to Angoulême earlier this year) and the Witch Hat Atelier Coloring Book! kodansha.us/2025/03/19/w...

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The exhibit is at the Seibu Shibuya department store until March 31. fast.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2025...

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30 years later, I still can't watch this without reciting Trish Ledoux's singable English lyrics. Rewritten lyrics are from a bygone era, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss them sometimes. Very few did them as well as she did, though.

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Agreed... there's something about being FIRMLY from the era of having to hang out with an asshole you despise because they're the local tape god, and therefore your connection to new stuff, while existing today, where anime is just a part of the background noise of everyday life. It's just wild.

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Aniplex and Crunchyroll establish Hayate, a Tokyo-based joint venture for anime production:

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APPLESEED (2004) on Japanese dvd. Film disc, extras disc, and soundtrack CD. Illustration hardcover book, 50 pp. Softcover storyboard book, 480 pp. stiff cardboard laminate slipcover, color vellum sleeve. Mint condition. cost me 700 yen

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We’ve just been to the 18th Manga Jiman competition at the Japanese Embassy in London. Yet again we’re really impressed by the quality of the entries. #MangaJiman

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Spotted on the London Underground at a very prominent platform at Piccadilly Circus. #Totoro

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Exploring "Gunbuster’s" Roots in Shojo - Dawn H. explores Gainax's 1988 OVA, Gunbuster, and the way the series draws from classic shojo works. In particular, she looks at how the series derived many of its beats and themes from 1973 tennis anime, Aim for the Ace! #anime #shojo

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We’re in the Embassy of Japan, in London for the Manga Jiman Awards.

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LOVE the posters for @gkids.com's IMAX release of Princess Mononoke!

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It'll be interesting to see what happens in the US, where so many comics are seen as collectible and not disposable. We haven't seen the big switch to digital, but I assume it's more lack of a good digital option as opposed to interest.

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You Talk Too Much, So Just Shut It Already! Volume 1 Manga Release Details

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Have you been enjoying the latest season of Toilet-bound Hanako-kun? Enough that you're craving more of our favorite ghost boy? 👀 Read ahead with the manga! Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Vol. 1-21 are available now! yenpress.com/series/toile...

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My company's hiring a Publishing Operations Associate! If you have publishing knowledge, communication skills, and a passion for databases, please apply here: www.viz.com/company-jobs... This position would be working closely with me, so please ask me questions, and I'll try my best to answer

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This is the grim reality of what a of of us independent outlets are facing, and why we've all been hammering how important it is for subscribers to back your favorites. Ads stopped working ages ago; affiliate programs are dead. We're at a point where our subscribers determine if we're sustainable.

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Worth the trip of London just to spot the Ado tour poster

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All chapters of Nukozuke (Japanese) are free on Manga Park this week!

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Picked up an order from my local comic shop today and Nukozuke vol 3 had come in early!! One of my favorite characters shows up for the first time this volume, and the author notes at the back have one of the funniest stories so far~ I hope everyone who picks it up enjoys it!

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This weekend’s manga reading includes Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken Volume 7 @darkhorse.com

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Interesting article featuring @jamiesmart.bsky.social and the rise in popularity of manga with young readers.

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I've read some fantastic articles on media localization in the last year. Some on manga translation and lettering, on how some English-based games were handled in other languages, and even on how to criticise translation in media. Highly recommend all of these! j-entranslations.com/media-transl...

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We’ve just received our copy of the French Edition of the Witch Hat Atelier artbook (L'Atelier des Sorciers - L'Art des Sorciers: L'artbook). It’s 99% artwork. There’s hardly any text in it. Kamome Shirahama’s artwork is amazing. It’s such a beautiful book.

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Charity shop anime finds.

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Had a lot of fun interviewing “Dinosaur Sanctuary” manga creator Itaru Kinoshita this week. This video is part of our prep for his upcoming US comic convention debut at Anime Expo 2025 in July, thanks to the MINT Project - www.mint-mangaproject.com/en/

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Our @mangasplaining.bsky.social report on manga and libraries in US/Canada that we presented at the Shuppan (Publishers) Club in Jimbocho, Tokyo on Wednesday got covered by Yahoo News writer Kazushi Iida! news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/artic...

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I'm hosting Rob Pereyda this afternoon for an anime AMA on Saywise! Join us with big questions about the overseas anime business -- this guy's seen it all!

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Incredible night at Roppongi Hills City View for the preview of the Osamu Tezuka Hi no Tori (Phoenix) manga exhibit - so many gorgeous pages from Tezuka’s masterwork on display #火の鳥　hinotori-ex.roppongihills.com

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Not my art/design!! (It's the legendary Kenichi Sonoda's illo 🙏❤️) Supporting @plasticlovelondon 's upcoming club night with some oldskool flyer printing and guillotine-ing. Taking flyers to Minamicon ❤️-- #plasticlove #citipop #plasticlovelondon #80sJpop

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Nasu: Summer in Andelusia US Blu-ray Release Details

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Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- is almost here! Don't miss out on Saturday the 15th! Purchase Here: spkl.io/6175foBfU

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The escalation of this is absolutely bananas and legitimately one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen

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How to be a Manga Artist Signing With Fumio Obata and Balthazar Pagani at Gosh! Comics in London this weekend. @goshcomics.bsky.social

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GKIDS @gkids.com is looking for a Controller – Finance & Accounting NYC or Los Angeles • Full-Time • $150K gkids.com/jobs/control...

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"Foreigners are flocking to buy bento from the Sakura Stage Tokyo Store in Shibuya", screams Toyo Keizai. Later in the article, it turns out there's a language school in the building, and students are buying lunch. toyokeizai.net/articles/-/8...

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NEW MANGA ANNOUNCEMENT: Land Kazumi Yamashita's award-winning series will be coming to English print in 3-in-1 omnibus volumes! In a village where the residents die upon reaching the age of fifty, An seeks the truth about the inhabitants of the "other world" that the village offers sacrificed to.

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Apropos of nothing, I'm just going to remind people looking for translation services that you should hire HUMANS and these humans should be happy to guarantee that they are translating, not editing machine output.

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You know who is influential AS FUCK? Waaaaaay more than Junji Ito. Daijiro Mohoroshi. This is the guy whose work inspired Miyazaki, Hajime Isayama, Tanabe Gou... He is the quintessential "artist's artist."

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