Manga And I

There’s not a lot I need say about today’s Best Thing Ever, so I’ll keep it brief. Manga Camera  does exactly what its name suggests, and it’s no surprise that it’s a sudden huge hit on the iOS App Store. It does a great job of turning the real world into manga comics. It cartoonifies your loved ones into excellent, authentic-looking drawn characters, and superimposes manga text and frame effects on top. Yes, there are a thousands cartoonifying apps already, but this one’s different, the results are different, and it’s free. (Note, though, that it requires iOS 5 or later, and doesn’t work on iPod touch.) It comes with a bunch of cool manga-style templates but you needn’t worry too much about which one to use while composing your shot: after snapping, you can reframe your image with one of the other templates before saving to the camera roll. It has a couple of other limitations, too. It can’t use your iPhone’s front-facing camera, and can’t import photos from your Camer

Way too many blogs on manga out there. You can’t read them all. Really, you can’t. Here are a few good ones I’m reading right now. Comics Worth Reading . Been checking this one most days for a couple of years. Solid reviews and a lot of variety: webcomics, manga, independents, animation, anime. Here is the manga only link . She really likes Tramps Like Us. Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page . I enjoy her reviews so much that I try to save them up for a week so I can read several in a row. Most of the manga she reviews is not licensed in English but I enjoy learning reading about them. Slightly Biased Manga . Good reviews. Perversely, I enjoy that her blog is so stripped down, she doesn’t even show covers. She’s pretty forthright about her opinions which I also like. Precocious Curmudgeon . Recently started reading this blog regularly. Lots of news and reviews. I feel reassured by his posts because they seem so carefully selected from the great mass of informatio

Call it a dream for fans of manga and anime for years now. Some “new comers” to the fandom may not realize it, but once upon a time there wasn’t a way, either legal or illegal, to get brand new manga just as it came out from Japan at their finger tips. Even in the late-90s into the early-otts, as the anime boom started taking form, folks had to import things like  Shonen Jump  weekly for a high cost, and then spend back breaking hours trying to translate the Japanese pages themselves if you wanted the here and now. As of Monday January 21st, 2013, that is now far from the case as it was even ten years earlier in North America. This week, Viz has unleashed a long wanted dream to the North American fan community. They have officially ended their “Alpha” period of their digital weekly Shonen Jump  (a big step in itself) and have replaced and rebranded it with the  All-New Weekly Shonen Jump ! So what is so new? The biggest thing here is day and date with Japan! Never before has this h

The organizers of the  Toronto Comic Arts Festival  made their first announcements of  special guests scheduled to appear in their May 2013 event . Besides American and European comics talents like Art Spiegelman ( Maus ), Raina Telgemeier ( Drama  and  Smile ), and Maurice Vellekoop ( A Nut at the Opera ), TCAF 2013 will also feature two very special guests from Japan: Taiyo Matsumoto (creator of  Tekkon Kinkreet , and the upcoming release,  Sunny , both from VIZ Media) and Gengoroh Tagame ( The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame , a collection of this  bara manga  master's work, from PictureBox). In addition to spotlight panel appearances and autograph sessions, Taiyo Matsumoto will also be featured in a special gallery exhibit at The Japan Society. Entitled  "The World Of Taiyo Matsumoto,"  the exhibit will feature "original artwork and goods" by Matsumoto. The exhibit will be on display at The Japan Society gallery at 131 Bloor Street West, Second floor from Ma

One Punch Man, a webcomic adaptation with art by Murata Yusuke and scenario by One It’s too bad that this manga can be summed up pretty quickly, since I actually really enjoyed this one and I’d like to talk about it, but there’s just not a lot to say. Even so, here we go! One Punch Man is just what it sounds like: it’s about a superhero who can defeat any opponent in a single punch. The embodiment of the planet’s will, seeking to destroy the virus that is humanity? Beaten in one punch. A giant beast of a man, powered up through science to become the most powerful person in the world? Beaten in one punch. The evil army of underground mole people, seeking revenge on the surface? You guessed it; one punch. The thing is, since our hero Saitama is this unstoppable badass who can literally defeat anything in a single blow, he’s lost all meaning in life. Where’s the fun in being a superhero if it’s not hard at all? There’s no challenge, no adrenaline rush, no meaning to any of it. He stil

The official website for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Tuesday that an hour-long crossover television anime special betweenToriko, One Piece, and Dragon Ball Z will air on Sunday, April 7 at 9:00 a.m. The "Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Chō Collaboration Special!!" will air in two parts: the first part will be titled "Hashire Saikyō Gundan! Toriko to Luffy to Goku!" (Run, Strongest Army! Toriko, Luffy, Goku!), and the second part will be titled: "Shijō Saikyō Collaboration vs. Umi no Taishokukan" (History's Strongest Collaboration vs. Glutton of the Sea). Toriko and One Piece have already been featured in two crossover specials in April 2011 and April 2012. The third special will commemorate the start of the third year of the Toriko anime, which premiered in April 2011. Toriko and One Piece share Fuji TV 's "Dream 9" programming block that begins on Sundays at 9:00 a.m.

Hiromu Arakawa's new manga series "Silver Spoon" will be adapted into an animated TV series. The anime adaptation will run on Fuji Television Network Inc.'s "noitaminA" midnight animation slot, its official website said. Because the second halves of "Psycho-Pass" and "Robotics; Notes" are currently airing on the slot and reruns of the one-hour "Katanagatari" series will follow in April, "Silver Spoon" will likely premiere in or after July.

The Manga Taishō (マンガ大賞?) is an annual Japanese manga award.  First iteration  In the inaugural edition of the award in 2008, twelve manga were nominated and the winner was Gaku, by Shinichi Ishizuka. Winner: Gaku: Minna no Yama, by Shinichi Ishizuka  Nominees:  Umimachi Diary 1: Semishigure no Yamugoro, by Akimi Yoshida (3rd place)  Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, by Fumi Yoshinaga  Kinō Nani Tabeta?, by Fumi Yoshinaga  Kimi ni Todoke, by Karuho Shiina  Imperial Guards, by Daisuke Satō and Yu Ito  Tomehane! Suzuri Kōkō Shodōbu, by Katsutoshi Kawai  Natsume's Book of Friends, by Yuki Midorikawa  Himawari: Kenichi Legend, by Akiko Higashimura  Flower of Life, by Fumi Yoshinaga  Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, by Masayuki Ishikawa  Yotsuba&!, by Kiyohiko Azuma (2nd place) 

Summit of the Gods Many people wonder about the motivation behind a mountaineer’s desire to risk their life in order to scale a dangerous peak, and George Mallory (1886-1924) has been attributed to have given the most famous (and also simplest) reason why. When asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, legend has it that he simply said: “Because it’s there.” While the authenticity of this quote has come into question in recent years, there is no denying the profound, yet puzzling nature of those three words. Perhaps only the bravest of mountaineers will be able to fully comprehend them. If Mallory and his partner Andrew Irvine had survived their ill-fated 1924 Mount Everest expedition, further light could have possibly been shed upon the subject. Jiro Taniguchi’s five-volume manga adaptation of Baku Yumemakura’s original novel of the same name attempts to solve the mystery behind what makes a mountaineer tick. The novel was written between 1994 and 1

World Trigger                (Cover, Lead CP, New Series) Assassination Classroom One Piece Koisuru Edison                   (CP) Naruto Kuroko no Basket Toriko Beelzebub Saiki Kusuo no Sainan (CP) Haikyuu!!

Koi suru Edison (Lead CP, New Series) Naruto One Piece PSI Kusuo Saiki Bleach Assassination Classroom (Center Color) Kuroko no Basket Toriko Shokugeki no Souma      (Center Color) Nisekoi