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  • What Japan thinks about live action movies based on manga?

    Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 13:17 in news, japan, manga, surveys, oddities, live action

    It seems many japanese dislike the idea of adapting anime and manga series for a live action version of it…This recent survey from iShare via What Japan thinks shed some light about the preference of many Japanese for this adaptations… De...

  • Manga and Anime Origins: Kamishibai!

    Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 07:24 in news, japan, anime, manga

    Anime and Manga sure had its origins, but most people don´t know exactly how and when it began… It was the simple clacking of two wooden sticks on a street corner that signaled to children the start of kamishibai, a popular pastime during De...

  • Japanese Manga debuts at British Museum!

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 07:35 in japan, manga, oddities, munakata kyoju

    It seems Manga is getting a proper recognition around the world…A 250 year old British Museum will exhibit a manga called Munakata Kyoju. As home to one of the world’s finest collections of historic artifacts, it seems fitting that the ...

  • Interview with a Manga Translator!

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 07:10 in japan, manga

    How does it feel to be a Manga Translator? Mainichi took the task to answer that question and made an interview for our reading pleasure. The Manga translator interviewed is Simona Stanzani from Italy! Simona Stanzani has translated a number of hit m...

  • What Japan thinks about Manga, Games, Doujinshi and other things?

    Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 22:00 in news, japan, Games, anime, manga, oddities, dojinshi

    iShare conducted a  survey among their members to see what are their thoughts about different subjects like Anime, Manga and Doujinshi. In the survey, They included two interesting questions related to some of the news We posted in the past. Remembe...

  • Manga Library opens at Japan University!

    Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 09:48 in news, japan, manga

    Preparing the path for the ultimate place for Manga fans, a University in Japan opens a Manga Library. A “manga” library opened in Tokyo this weekend, featuring traditional Japanese comic magazines that were popular nearly half a centur...