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Friday was a busy day for the manga folks at Anime Expo. Here's a roundup of news and announcements: SPJA Awards: The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation gave their awards at AX.

From glancing at Twitter and my news feeds, it looks like the first day of Anime Expo included some good music and some anime license announcements, but not much of note for manga fans.

BANGALORE: Mangas, Japan's cult comics, will find a resonance here with an art exhibit titled Girl Power!, which begins on July 4 at the Oxford Book Store in Jayanagar.

ICv2 has BookScan's top-selling graphic novels for June, and manga dominates the list with 17 titles.

Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama said Saturday he intends to freeze the execution of any budgetary appropriations he considers wasteful, including the government's plan to build a state-run art center for media products dubbed the "hall of anime," if the DPJ takes power after the next House of Representatives election.

Starting an anime club can be an enriching experience, but there are a few factors you have to think about before getting started.

A plan to use 11.7 billion yen from the supplementary budget to build a national comprehensive media arts center dubbed the "anime hall of fame" has drawn criticism.

Rockin' Android and GamersGate have recently collaborated together to release a string of new and old indie favorites from the anime-gaming Motherland, Japan.

Great literature has taught us many things. Click your heels three times and repeat 'There's no place like home.' Pictures of ourselves in the attic will get uglier for us if we don't want to age.

ICv2 lists the top 25 manga properties of spring 2009. The New York Times manga best-seller list is up, and alongside the Viz and Del Rey regulars is vol.

By Gavin J. Blair and Park Soo-Mee, Reuters TOKYO/SEOUL a Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are moving forward with plans for a remake of "Old Boy" despite a complex, behind-the-scenes rights wrangle involving the Japanese publishers of the original manga and the Korean producers of Park Chan-Wook's 2003 cult hit.

Asylum network site StreetLevel just offered up images of a newly unleashed 59-foot robot in Japan.

If you paint or animate, a business and an arts organization have summer projects for you.

Bandai Japan has announced the 'My robot' a communication robot to commemorate Doraemon's 30 birthday.

Kate Dacey and David Welsh check out this week's new manga at their respective blogs.

FUNimation Entertainment will premiere their new English dub of EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE ALONE on July 3rd at Anime Expo 2009.

June 17, 2009- Fifteen years of anime weekend fun continue this September in Atlanta! ANIME WEEKEND ATLANTA will hold its 15th annual festival of Japanese animation and comics September 18-20 2009 at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel and the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.

Astro Boy, the mythical Japanese cartoon character that has captivated generations of young people worldwide, will come out this year as an animated film by British director David Bowers.

The Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., continues its Anime Film Festival with a screening of "Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie" at 8 p.m. Thursday.