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If you call yourself an Otaku , you surely know who Osamu Tezuka is. If you don't, then this gorgeous 272-page volume is even more than a must-have for your collection, it's mandatory reading. Tezuka, Japan's most celebrated manga artist and creator,...
Tags: Osamu Tezuka Film Festival, DVD Tezuka, Helen McCarthy, Japan, Tōkyō, Manga, Osamu Tezuka, Fumoon, Diary of Ma-chan, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture
New vehicle sales in Japan rose 36% in November from a year earlier, up for the fourth consecutive month, on the back of tax breaks and subsidies for the purchase of eco-friendly vehicles, an industry body said Tuesday. Sales of new vehicles excluding...
Tags: Toyota Motor Corp., sales rose, Japan Automobile Dealers Association, GM U.S., Kia U.S, sales rise, sales increased, Toyota Motor Sales USA, Honda Motor Co., car sales, Japan, Tōkyō, Business Finance, Car manufacturers, Hatchbacks, Sedans, Technology Internet, Toyota, Automotive industry, Mid-size cars, Hyundai, Electric vehicles, Compact cars, Kyodo News, Kia Motors, Japanese media, Toyota Camry, Entertainment Culture, Amr Moussa, Arab League, Manga
Hero Complex contributor Liesl Bradner offers an intriguing look back at a forgotten age of heroics in Japan... Five years before Lee Falk’s masked-man adventures with “ The Phantom ” began in newspapers, a hero called Golden Bat was saving damsels...
Tags: Prince Gamma, golden bat, Depression-era Japan, Japan, Tōkyō, Comic book, Manga, Kamishibai, Osamu Tezuka, Japanese folklore, Japanese culture, allnews, Entertainment Culture, Magazines
Could there be a brightly colored robot lurking beneath your great aunt's Ming vase? Part traditional Chinese vessel, part manga-inspired mecha, these colorful pieces of pottery are sure to liven up any mantle. Artist Brendan Lee Satish Tang created the...
Tags: Japan, Tōkyō, Cultural appropriation, Manga, Metalworking, Gold, Porcelain, Ormolu, Chinese ceramics, Entertainment Culture, Ming Dynasty
The academy's president, Cicero Sandroni, praises the quality of Japanese anime and manga creations, saying they have developed creativity among young people. A 13-year-old junior high school student said, ''Moves of main characters as well as colors...
Tags: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Education, Manga, Anime, Costume design, Cosplay, Fandom, Otaku
It would seem so, at least from looking at Hollywood's constant slew of remakes, adaptations and sequels...Astro Boy, both an American computer-animated adaptation of a popular long-running Japanese manga series and homage to/rip-off of several movies,...
Tags: Astro Boy, Los Angeles, Manga, Rock, Osamu Tezuka's Star System, Pluto, Osamu Tezuka, Black Jack, Entertainment Culture, Freddie Highmore, Metropolis, Ham Egg, Bill Nighy, Doctor Tenma, Robot, Tezuka Productions, Tetsuwan Atom, Uran, David Bowers, Imagi Animation Studios, Astro, Professor Ochanomizu
On the 12th September, the Copper Age webcomic launched - www.itisacircle.com If you think comics mean brightly coloured people with improbable muscles beating each other up, think again! It's possible to do many different kinds of story telling...
Tags: copper age, Tom Brown (trombonist), Bryn Colvin, webcomic, manga, gothic, art
Imagine this. A bright highly skilled teenage boy finds a magical notebook. In the back of this notebook it says that the possessor of it has the ability to cause the deaths of anyone who’s name is written in the notebook. Insane...
Tags: Manga, anime, teen reading, popular manga, popular books, Death Note
Creativity is always critical in the fashion industry, and it's even more important under the current crisis. Vogue knows it, and that's why the prominent fashion magazine invited Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons to create the Magazine...
Tags: anime, manga, japan, tokyo, vogue, shop, comme, chanel