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MangaNEXT 2012 – a con in review

March 3, 2012 No Comments

After taking a year break, MangaNEXT returned to New Jersey in February rather than October as previous incarnations. In it’s 5th year, there were much more than usual planned. It is always wonderful to see guests from various publication companies like Ed Chavez from Vertical and Erica Friedman of...

MangaNEXT 2012 – State of the Manga Industry

March 3, 2012 No Comments

Gen Manga, JManga, Vertical and ALC Publishing were in attendence. Marketing Director of Vertical Inc., Ed Chavez become the defacto moderator of the panel. President of ALC Publishing, Erica Friedman introduced herself next as a representative of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Robert Newman of JManga sat on...

MangaNEXT 2012 – Tateno Makoto Press Interview

March 3, 2012 No Comments

It was a wonderful afternoon when I had the rare honor to interview Tateno Makoto-sensei. Present was Robert Newman of JManga, Shinshokan publishing staff including Director of Production Section, Suenaga Hironari-san. Newman assisted with the interpretation. We introduced ourselves and settled into the usual Q&A with a bit of...

MangaNEXT 2012 – Tateno Makoto Saturday Q&A

March 3, 2012 No Comments

The panel continued with Robert Newman from JManga reintroducing Tateno Makoto-sensei. Other titles that Tateno-sensei are known for in the shoujo genre include King of Cards, Red Angel, Happy Boys and in the BL genre is Blue Sheep Reverie, Steal Moon and the first volume of RomeoxRomeo which can...

MangaNEXT 2012 – Maeda Tomo Saturday Q&A

March 3, 2012 No Comments

The panel opened up with JManga Robert Newman’s introduction. Maeda Tomo-sensei debuted with Honey Blood in Wings magazine in 2000. Other manga include Black Sun Silver Moon, Me ni ha Sayaka ni Mie ne domo, Tsukuroi-ya and her ongoing series, Kesshou Monogatari which began in 2008 and Kamitsuki which...

MangaNEXT 2012 – Maeda Tomo Friday Q&A

March 3, 2012 No Comments

Similar to Tateno-sensei, Robert Newman of Jmanga opened the panel by introducing Maeda Tomo-sensei. Maeda-sensei also wrote in a variety of genres including shoujo, BL and yuri. She is known for Beyond My Touch as well as Black Sun Silver Moon which is also on JManga. She is currently...

MangaNEXT 2012 – Tateno Makoto Friday Q&A

March 3, 2012 No Comments

Tateno Makoto debuted with Yurarete Egg Boys in 1986. Tateno-sensei currently creates works for magazines such as Dear+ (Shinshokan), Bessatsu Hana to Yume (Hakusensha) and BE×BOY (Libre Publishing). Her most popular title in the US is Yellow and she is currently working on Blue Sheep Reverie which will be...

MangaNEXT 2012 – Vertical 2012 with Ed Chavez

March 3, 2012 No Comments

There was a slight delay at the start of the panel due to techical difficulties. Ed Chavez of Vertical Inc. seemed to be doing a video recording of the panel with the webcam directed at the power point presentation. After all the tech was set up, we were on...

NYCC/NYAF 2011 – a con in review

November 2, 2011 No Comments

Since it began in 2006, NY Comic Con has been growing exponentially every year. With the inclusion of NY Anime Festival, the cultures of sci-fi, fantasy, gaming merged with Japanimation, manga, fashion and music. This year marked the first when NYCC opened it’s doors to the public on thursday....

NYAF 2011 – Guilty Crown screening and Q&A

November 2, 2011 No Comments

The room for the screening was small. The number of people that could fit in there was less than for the Professor Layton screening on friday…not that it was any surprise. I just imagined that these things would be bigger. I got a seat in the middle and we...

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