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New Gundam Series “Gundam AGE” Airing This Fall

June 9, 2011

While it has been confirmed that a new Gundam anime series will be revealed officially on 13 Jun 2011 during a live [...]

Tokyo’s Youth Ordinance Bill 156 Looks Likely To Be Passed

December 14, 2010

The Youth Healthy Development Ordinance Bill 156 that has sparked the protest from anime/manga industry players has been approved by [...]

AKB48 Official 2011 Calendar

October 12, 2010

2010 is almost over and soon we will be crossing over to a new year, which also means that we [...]

AKB48 Girls Transform Into Manga Characters

July 7, 2010

This is how the girls of AKB48 would look like if they were transformed into manga characters Source: AkibaKeizai Somehow [...]

Most Popular Manga of 2009: One Piece

January 31, 2010

According to the figures released by Oricon on Friday, Eiichiro Oda’s epic manga series “One Piece” was the most popular [...]

Azumanga Daioh Getting New Chapters

April 23, 2009

We have news confirmation that Kiyohiko Azuma will be going back to draw three more chapters for the manga Azumanga [...]

Shogakukan to Launch Monthly Shonen Sunday Mag in Japan

March 1, 2009

Shogakukuan will be launching a new Monthly Shounen Sunday magazine targetted at boys on Wednesday. More details will be revealed [...]

Hashiguchi Takashi VS Raiku

June 8, 2008

Yesterday we talked about the mangaka of Konjiki no Gash suing Shogakukan for losing pieces of his artwork from the original manuscript.

Well today, another mangaka Hashiguchi Takashi, best known for Yakitate!! Japan has commented on the issue.

He started a blog and posted about how the editors in Shogakukan wouldn’t be so irresponsible [...] [...]

Konjiki no Gash Manga Creator Sues Shogakukan

June 6, 2008

The manga creator of Konjiki no Gash (Zatch Bell) is now suing publisher Shogakukan for 3.3 million yen (USD 31,000) for reportedly losing some colored pages from the original manuscripts.

Konjiki no Gash!! had ended its serialization in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Magazine last December [...]
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