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VIZ Media, LLC , one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, continues the momentum behind its hit INUYASHA brand with the announcement of the release of Rumiko Takahashi's original manga series in new VIZBIG omnibus editions.

For nearly 60 years he's been Japan's most famous robot. Astro Boy, the celebrated comic strip and cartoon superhero first sketched by manga master Osamu Tezuka, has been given a new lease on life in a 3D Hollywood blockbuster.Duration: 01:56

When manga critic Yoshihiro Yonezawa died in 2006, he left a huge collection of vintage comics that has become the foundation of Meiji University's Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subcultures.

Caroline Byrne's death has been made into a telemovie. Photo: Supplied Mark Ellis November 4, 2009 Shintaro! SBS One, 8.30pm BEFORE the Hello Kitty craze in the noughties, anime in the '90s, and the TV series Monkey in the '80s, there was the 1960s cross-cultural sensation The Samurai.

Source: The Associates press release Special Thanks to Farhana Shaikh Cover art for the UK Blu-ray of BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE.

Genius Party by Studio 4 C Available with English subtitles on Region 4 DVD via Siren Visual Studio 4 C American anime watchers are not out of line when they rattle off "Ghibli" and "Hayao Miyazaki" as the first names in a list of revered figures and institutions in anime.

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Although you wouldn't guess it from the name, Beast Master is a shoujo manga, and in fact, it's the latest entry in Viz's Shojo Beat imprint.

According to The Japan Times , Professor Kaichiro Morikawa and the Meiji University will open the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subcultures , which will house the 140,000-plus items of the late manga critic and subculture enthusiast's private collection.

It's not manga, but an issue that affects a lot of manga readers: Two circulation desk employees in a Kentucky library were fired for stopping an 11-year-old child from checking out a volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen because they regarded it as "porn." We had a roundtable discussion of this at Good Comics for Kids, with both ...

By Mike Abundo Posted on October 27, 2009 Windows 7's official mascot in Japan is an anime girl named Nanami Madobe .

Like anime that goes "bump in the night"? Then you'll love Red Garden! This is the story of four girls who have nothing in common... except of course, that they're all dead.

In this modern-day romance by Yoshifumi Kondo , Shizuku Tsukishima is a teenage bookworm living in a small district of Tokyo in the summer of 1994.

The smiling boy with the pointy hairdo flying into theaters today in David Bowers' computer-generated film "Astro Boy" isn't just a clever diversion for the kids.

If you can sit through corny lines such as a oeeveryone has their destiny,a a oeAstro Boya isna t too shabby.

In a move to promote serious study of Japanese manga, a university in Tokyo plans to open a library with two million comic books, animation drawings, video games and other cartoon industry artifacts.

DreamWorks has tapped scribe Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the Japanese manga property "Ghost in the Shell." DreamWorks is making the futuristic police thriller as a 3D live-action film.

If America has Mickey Mouse, then Japan has Astro Boy. The iconic super-powered, speedo-wearing child hero with Betty Boop eyes takes the spotlight in the new CGI-animated film hitting theaters this Friday, Oct.

IT IS suggested that the Japanese are the world's greatest consumers of comics due to a proud tradition of graphic simplicity and sophisticated woodblock prints.

Like a lot of kids bordering on adolescence, he feels different. A bit alien, perhaps.