ASIA ANIME BLOGS

Idag på Greaphic Novel Conference i New York presenterade informationskällan ICv2 statistik som påvisar att försäljningen av manga har sjunkit med 17% i USA jämfört med året innan. En av orsakerna till att försäljningen sjunkit beror på att omsättningen från amerikanska serier ökat. Även antalet mangasläpp har sjunkit från 1513 till 1372, vilket motsvarar 9%. [...]

In Japan, for every single anime character survey, Lelouch has gotten Number One by a landslide. Every. Single. Character. Survey. But that is in Japan. Who cares about Japan right? Over in America, we have an excellent anime website Anime-Source where they have a character survey since 2006. Last year, Haruhi Suzumiya won. This year [...]

For more than a decade, Japanese girls have been dressing up for fun, or “cosplay” (short for “costume play”) as it’s come to be known.  Considering the upcoming Halloween season, I felt it was high time to have a little Neko cosplayer fun of my own — based on a Japanese manga series called “Death [...]