Recent Posts Tagged With 'japan'

• Kobe, Japan wants to support anime and manga artists

  Posted on Friday August 29th, 2008 at 12:14 in japan, anime, manga, kobe

  Daily Yomiuri has an article today on a ward in Kobe that plans to create an artist enclave to revitalize an area of the city that was ravished by earthquake. From the article: Merchants in Kobe’s Nagata Ward, which was devastated in the 1995 ...

• Shonen-ai manga themed cafe in Tokyo:

  Posted on Tuesday August 5th, 2008 at 17:10 in japan, manga, tokyo, cafe, fandom, naughty stuff, shonen-ai

  This is an old report, but I just stumbled upon it. UK magazine the Guardian had a piece on a manga-themed cafe in Tokyo. The theme? Shonen-ai/Yaoi (boys-love), with pretty male waiters dressed as schoolboys. More than 100 men, mostly aspiring...

• Singapore gets same-week anime broadcasts from Japan

  Posted on Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 at 12:40 in japan, anime, Singapore, industry news, broadcast

  Singaporean broadcast group MediaCorp has signed a landmark deal with hated anime distributor Odex to bring a range of Japanese titles to its Arts Central channel and to the new online service AnimeTrix, available through its VOD portal MOBTV.sg. To...