- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Nov 22, 2011 16:40 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Fine Art, Image Gallery, Interviews, Mangaka, Plastic Surgery, Sculptures, Shoujo


Mangaka and artist Rokudenashiko (“rokudenashi” means “ne’er-do-well”) has lately been earning much acclaim (or attention at any rate) for her “Georaman” and other vaginally inspired sculptures, having opted for the direct approach in reproducing her own intimate parts in her work.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Aug 20, 2011 23:18 JST
- Tags: Bleach, K-ON!, Naruto, One Piece, Rankings, Shonen, Shonen Jump, Shoujo, USA

American publishing industry figures for the top selling manga franchises help underline the superior taste of American audiences when it comes to manga, and (rather more surprisingly) the fact that US manga fans have apparently forsaken the shonen manga holy trinity…
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It is being claimed that girls are now more interested in male-marketed shonen manga than in the shoujo manga publishers think they are supposed to be reading.
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Manga fans supply a ranking of which mangaka they always assumed were male, whether based on name, art style or story, only to be surprised to find they were female.
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Manga fans craving a ranking blissfully devoid of One Piece need look no further than the 2011 Manga Taisho (“Manga Awards”), instead based around the concept of “manga you could recommend to your friends” as selected by various manga publishing industry figures.
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Japanese quizzed on what their favourite live action adaptations of anime and manga titles are supply an instructive list.
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Manga fans supply a ranking of the manga they feel most likely to be useful in gleaning some understanding of history from.
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Manga fans supply a ranking of the lady mangaka they esteem as drawing the best looking male characters, a quite respectable ranking at that.
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Japanese women asked which scenes from sappy romantic manga they would most like to experience themselves in real life yield up a list likely of interest to budding Casanovas and mawkish manga fans alike.
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Popular shoujo mangaka and aspiring sniper Mayu-tan (or Mayu Shinjo) has published a rather convincing picture of herself cosplaying K-ON!’s Yui Hirasawa.
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Shoujo mangaka Mayu Shinjo, or Mayu-tan, recently obtained a sniper rifle, using it to take aim at her critics.
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