Animanga in the News: 2/8/11

Here you will find a run down of today's anime and manga news! If anything sent waves through the anime and manga world today, you'll find it in this post! By the way, I'm saladesu, one of the translator-moderators of MH, and I'll be posting a post like this every day (as much as possible, anyway). Look forward to them ;)

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An 18-year-old boy in Katagami City, Akita Prefecture, was arrested on the 8th for violation of copyrights. The boy had uploaded scans of manga onto an American online file-hosting sites without permission.

According to the police's High-Tech Crime Joint Task Center, the boy had uploaded scans of around 3,800 volumes of manga from around 260 different series, to online file-hosting websites without permission. His site, Manga.jp had an estimated 2.5 million hits, and he had earned approximately ¥270,000 via advertising revenue.

The boy admitted to the crime, stating, "I obtained the manga from other sites. I wanted to try it for myself."

Between 15th August and 3rd September last year, the boy had uploaded 3 volumes of manga including volume 11 of "Nurarihyon no Mago" (Shueisha) from his home computer.

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It was announced on the 8th of February that the Nippon Television Network Corporation (also known as Nittele), took the anime production studio Madhouse as its subsidiary.

Madhouse is well-known as the anime studio behind movies such as "Sennen Joyuu" and "Summer Wars", as well as television series "Card Captor Sakura" and "MONSTER".

In taking Madhouse as a subsidiary, Nittele will strive to develop the movies, broadcasting, official goods and VOD distribution. With Nittele's content management know-how, they are predicting that in 3 years' time, they an bring Madhouse's operating profit to ¥300,000,000.

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Irie Shigeru, aged 84, passed away on the 6th to pneumonia. He was active in the 1950s and 60s and drew manga for a shoujo magazine. His most famous work is "Sumire-san".

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