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MANGA AND ANIME NEWS (Updated Regularly)
Rules:
Post any manga related news that does not fit in another thread here. Remember, post any anime related news, including adaption announcements in the General Anime thread. destiny4ever
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"Wicked" Manga Becomes Live Action
Source: Superhero Hype
Author: Garth Franklin
Japanese manga "Wicked City" is to being remade as a live-action English-language feature
by Germany's Stallion Film with "Spawn" helmer Mark Dippe directing reports Superhero Hype.
The sci-fi/action tale deals with beasts from a parallel dimension and
a secret resistance organization trying to prevent the apocalypse.
The $50 million-$60 million budget project will lense early next year.
The original books by Hideyuki Kikuchi, bestsellers in the early 1980s,
were adapted as the anime series "Yoju toshi" by Yoshiaki Kawajiri.
Dippe and Johnny Hartmann are penning the screenplay.
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From: Mainichi Daily News
Mobile manga beats out hard copy for lazy literati
Japan remains the world's undisputed manga monarch, but the way Japanese
are enjoying cartoons is undergoing a fundamental change,
according to Sunday Mainichi (4/23).
Though manga readership has been declining here for over a decade,
Japanese comics are more popular overseas than ever before.
Among the main reasons given for the decline in domestic manga readership
has been the proliferation of the Internet and mobile phones.
Now, however, NTT solmare has carved a tidy niche for itself after merging the
competing interests and its "Comic Site" has become the biggest mobile phone
site dedicated to manga in Japan.
"We've passed 10 million downloads since starting the service in August 2004,"
a spokesman for the Osaka-based mobile phone company tells Sunday Mainichi.
"We get about 2 million to 3 million downloads a month."
Yoshihiro Nakajima, head of Impress Corp.'s Internet lifestyle lab,
speaks of the impressive growth of the Japanese electronic book market in recent years.
"In 2002, electronic books earned about 1 billion yen. By 2003, that had grown to 1.8 billion yen.
But by 2004, the market was worth 4.5 billion yen. Of that, mobile phone e-book business
skyrocketed to account for around 1.2 billion yen," Nakajima tells Sunday Mainichi.
"Manga sales have grown phenomenally over the past year and it wouldn't be
surprising if sales doubled again over the coming year."
more: Link here
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From www.themovieblog.com
Lindsay Lohan in Sailor Moon Movie?
Ok, file this one under "Really stupid idea that would still make a billion dollars".
There is word going around right now that a live action Sailor Moon movie could be in the works,
and that the girl being looked at for the lead sailor herself is none other than Lindsay Lohan.
Oh my sweet heavens.
The good folks over at Cinematical offer us this:
The story comes from the Japanese magazine called Animage, who report Fox has claimed the rights to Sailor Moon,
and hopes to make a live-action, English langauage version of the popular story. And that's not all!
The magazine further reports Fox's desire to enlist the writing/directing talents of geek kingpin Joss Whedon,
and the acting ... erhem ... talents of Lindsay Lohan, presumably for the title character.
more story: www.egotastic.com
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From : ANIMAXIS.COM
"CLANNAD" Comes to the Big Screen
An anime feature film based on the Key-produced romance
adventure game "CLANNAD" is set to hit theaters in 2007.
The original "CLANNAD" game debuted in April of 2004, with a Playstation 2 version
released in February of this year. An official manga adaptation and several anthology comics have followed.
Many of the specifics of the film are as yet unknown, but it is somewhat rare for
a game-based movie to be produced without a TV series or OVA release first.
However, with past hits like "Kanon" and "Air", Key has amassed a considerable fanbase,
and it appears they are counting on the fans' movie attendance.
_________________________________________________
From: LibraryJournal.com
Supervisor Pulls History of Manga from San Bernardino Library
Responding to complaints from a parent whose 16-year-old son was offended by explicit sex scenes in a history
called Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics (Laurence King Publishing), San Bernardino County Board of
Supervisors, CA, Chairman Bill Postmus has ordered the book removed from the library system.
(Postmus said the book had "obscene images," including "reproductions of pornographic cartoons depicting sex acts,
including sex with animals," though obscenity must be determined by a court.) County Librarian Ed Kieczykowski told LJ
that the book was purchased because of a positive review in LJ and that more than 20 other library systems in the state bought it.
He said he explained the library's selection and reconsideration policy to the supervisor and they looked at the book together.
Kieczykowski estimated that less than two percent of the book was sexually explicit, but Postmus "particularly didn't like the page the cartoon character was having sex with the hamster. He said, 'Do you think this is acceptable for our community?'
I said that we take the book as a whole, but I could understand why people would be upset."
So Kieczykowski agreed to withdraw the book. "This is one of those books that could go either way," he said,
adding that because the library system shares a catalog with the Riverside County Library System, residents could still access the book.
Postmus also was concerned that the book, though in the adult section, was near collections of comics that minors might seek out.
Postmus also called for the library "to draft a plan to protect children from inappropriate books and other materials."
Kieczykowski said that most residents have no quarrel with the library's procedures, but the library would look into the
concept of a J-card. Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, said this
was the first manga-related book withdrawal that had come to her attention. Librarians have asked for more finely
grained descriptions of the content and age-appropriateness of manga.
Rules:
Post any manga related news that does not fit in another thread here. Remember, post any anime related news, including adaption announcements in the General Anime thread. destiny4ever
------------------------
"Wicked" Manga Becomes Live Action
Source: Superhero Hype
Author: Garth Franklin
Japanese manga "Wicked City" is to being remade as a live-action English-language feature
by Germany's Stallion Film with "Spawn" helmer Mark Dippe directing reports Superhero Hype.
The sci-fi/action tale deals with beasts from a parallel dimension and
a secret resistance organization trying to prevent the apocalypse.
The $50 million-$60 million budget project will lense early next year.
The original books by Hideyuki Kikuchi, bestsellers in the early 1980s,
were adapted as the anime series "Yoju toshi" by Yoshiaki Kawajiri.
Dippe and Johnny Hartmann are penning the screenplay.
_________________________________________________
From: Mainichi Daily News
Mobile manga beats out hard copy for lazy literati
Japan remains the world's undisputed manga monarch, but the way Japanese
are enjoying cartoons is undergoing a fundamental change,
according to Sunday Mainichi (4/23).
Though manga readership has been declining here for over a decade,
Japanese comics are more popular overseas than ever before.
Among the main reasons given for the decline in domestic manga readership
has been the proliferation of the Internet and mobile phones.
Now, however, NTT solmare has carved a tidy niche for itself after merging the
competing interests and its "Comic Site" has become the biggest mobile phone
site dedicated to manga in Japan.
"We've passed 10 million downloads since starting the service in August 2004,"
a spokesman for the Osaka-based mobile phone company tells Sunday Mainichi.
"We get about 2 million to 3 million downloads a month."
Yoshihiro Nakajima, head of Impress Corp.'s Internet lifestyle lab,
speaks of the impressive growth of the Japanese electronic book market in recent years.
"In 2002, electronic books earned about 1 billion yen. By 2003, that had grown to 1.8 billion yen.
But by 2004, the market was worth 4.5 billion yen. Of that, mobile phone e-book business
skyrocketed to account for around 1.2 billion yen," Nakajima tells Sunday Mainichi.
"Manga sales have grown phenomenally over the past year and it wouldn't be
surprising if sales doubled again over the coming year."
more: Link here
_________________________________________________
From www.themovieblog.com
Lindsay Lohan in Sailor Moon Movie?
Ok, file this one under "Really stupid idea that would still make a billion dollars".
There is word going around right now that a live action Sailor Moon movie could be in the works,
and that the girl being looked at for the lead sailor herself is none other than Lindsay Lohan.
Oh my sweet heavens.
The good folks over at Cinematical offer us this:
The story comes from the Japanese magazine called Animage, who report Fox has claimed the rights to Sailor Moon,
and hopes to make a live-action, English langauage version of the popular story. And that's not all!
The magazine further reports Fox's desire to enlist the writing/directing talents of geek kingpin Joss Whedon,
and the acting ... erhem ... talents of Lindsay Lohan, presumably for the title character.
more story: www.egotastic.com
_________________________________________________
From : ANIMAXIS.COM
"CLANNAD" Comes to the Big Screen
An anime feature film based on the Key-produced romance
adventure game "CLANNAD" is set to hit theaters in 2007.
The original "CLANNAD" game debuted in April of 2004, with a Playstation 2 version
released in February of this year. An official manga adaptation and several anthology comics have followed.
Many of the specifics of the film are as yet unknown, but it is somewhat rare for
a game-based movie to be produced without a TV series or OVA release first.
However, with past hits like "Kanon" and "Air", Key has amassed a considerable fanbase,
and it appears they are counting on the fans' movie attendance.
_________________________________________________
From: LibraryJournal.com
Supervisor Pulls History of Manga from San Bernardino Library
Responding to complaints from a parent whose 16-year-old son was offended by explicit sex scenes in a history
called Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics (Laurence King Publishing), San Bernardino County Board of
Supervisors, CA, Chairman Bill Postmus has ordered the book removed from the library system.
(Postmus said the book had "obscene images," including "reproductions of pornographic cartoons depicting sex acts,
including sex with animals," though obscenity must be determined by a court.) County Librarian Ed Kieczykowski told LJ
that the book was purchased because of a positive review in LJ and that more than 20 other library systems in the state bought it.
He said he explained the library's selection and reconsideration policy to the supervisor and they looked at the book together.
Kieczykowski estimated that less than two percent of the book was sexually explicit, but Postmus "particularly didn't like the page the cartoon character was having sex with the hamster. He said, 'Do you think this is acceptable for our community?'
I said that we take the book as a whole, but I could understand why people would be upset."
So Kieczykowski agreed to withdraw the book. "This is one of those books that could go either way," he said,
adding that because the library system shares a catalog with the Riverside County Library System, residents could still access the book.
Postmus also was concerned that the book, though in the adult section, was near collections of comics that minors might seek out.
Postmus also called for the library "to draft a plan to protect children from inappropriate books and other materials."
Kieczykowski said that most residents have no quarrel with the library's procedures, but the library would look into the
concept of a J-card. Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, said this
was the first manga-related book withdrawal that had come to her attention. Librarians have asked for more finely
grained descriptions of the content and age-appropriateness of manga.
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