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One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda’s “sudden illness” recently resulted in One Piece abruptly disappearing from the latest Weekly Shonen Jump – an absence they reassure readers will last only a week, although neither fans nor the industry will be happy to be reminded the world’s best selling mangaka is only mortal.

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  • Anonymous commented on April 13, 2013 03:46

    He needs a break from One Piece world and re-connect with reality....... More

  • Anonymous commented on April 7, 2013 18:59

    An interesting discussion is worth comment. I think that you should write more on this topic, it might not be a taboo subject but generally people are not enough to speak on such topics. To... More

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Japanese Playboy “Unbelievably Creepy”

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The Japanese edition of Playboy has been attracting much derision and not a small amount of revulsion for the creepy otaku content carried in its latest edition, featuring a full spread of the most onanistically deviant antics ever concocted by the otaku mind.

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  • Zeta986 commented on March 10, 2012 22:28

    If fat people were doing like this i was expecting it was very funny... More

  • Anonymous commented on March 10, 2012 06:49

    Shouldn't they have put that in Playgirl?... More

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Jump Manga Suspended for Tracing

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Grand Jump serialised gourmet manga “Dashi Master” is the latest manga to fall victim to the temptations of Google Images, with the publishers suspending its publication after its author was accused of tracing a significant number of images.

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  • Anonymous commented on October 28, 2012 08:16

    I don't give a shit. It looks good.... More

  • Anonymous commented on December 30, 2011 03:54

    Of course he was probably getting payed next to nothing, but...... More

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The anime industry has grovellingly conceded that censorship under the firm hand of Tokyo fuhrer Shintaro Ishihara is OK after all – Kadokawa et al. have all humiliatingly folded and agreed to participate in the Tokyo International Anime Fair, all talk of their own “Anime Contents Expo” quietly forgotten.

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  • Mauvais commented on October 26, 2011 19:28

    Thank goodness! Rage quelled.... More

  • BustRobot commented on October 24, 2011 18:39

    I checked about and at least one of the companies - Kadokawa Shoten - said that they aren't actually participating in the TAF despite what the TAF website says. The TAF just haven't bothered updating... More

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All Aboard The One Piece Train

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As part of the celebrations for its 200,000,000th sale, the One Piece manga is taking over the trains and stations of Tokyo in an extravagant and doubtless extraordinarily expensive advertising campaign.

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  • Koyoto_Shadow commented on March 25, 2012 16:25

    Dat face in pic# 11...... More

  • Anonymous commented on September 9, 2011 12:26

    Ishihara should eat the cancer cancer fruit, then infect the rest of his dinosaur era cabinet.... More

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A schoolboy has been arrested for copyright infringement for using the “free” file hosting service MegaUpload to distribute pirated manga to the public.

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  • PrinceHeir commented on February 15, 2011 14:22

    oh well that's what happen if you make money on pirating... More

  • Anonymous commented on February 11, 2011 03:34

    Where are your dirty foreign thieves now, 2ch???... More

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Japan’s prime minister Naoto Kan has deplored the devastation Tokyo governor Ishihara has wrought on the Tokyo International Anime Fair, stressing the importance of spreading anime to the world and urging all sides to come to an accommodation even as Shueisha announced it will be blocking any Shonen Jump anime from appearing there.

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  • Anonymous commented on January 30, 2011 01:15

    You were in the middle of a police shootout with some bandits or assasins... O RLY?... More

  • Anonymous commented on December 15, 2010 13:06

    Anime/manga deprived zombies are gonna come out of their basement seeking revenge.... More

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Aya Hirano’s Playboy Debut

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Aya Hirano has appeared in Japan’s Playboy magazine for an interview and some sexy posing, the shoot proving something of a masterclass in Photoshop usage.

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  • Hadoken commented on March 9, 2012 15:06

    Who the hell will spend money to look at fully clothed women?? How about adding some NUDE pictures of women? Do that and watch the sales quadruple within a year.... More

  • kenshinflyer commented on January 8, 2011 21:14

    Yeah, Aya--Tits or GTFO.... More

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Top mangaka Ken Akamatsu has stated his misgivings about the reliance of the manga industry on the shonen holy trinity of One Piece, Naruto and Bleach, and what would befall publishers if these series were to conclude.

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  • Anonymous commented on June 25, 2012 19:45

    The suddenly-prophetic nature of this story is interesting. Only 2 years later it looks like 2 of the "trinity" are bowing out!... More

  • Anonymous commented on June 9, 2012 17:06

    hahaha ya right...much H stuff, it's infinite fap material... More

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Battle Angel Alita – Last Order has been forced out of publication due to Shueisha’s objection to such unacceptably discriminatory language as “psycho” and “crazy” – its mangaka’s refusal to bow before publisher pressure has resulted in publication being cancelled.

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  • Sylar commented on September 8, 2010 07:04

    The reasons are irrelevant. This is nothing more than dictatorship shit. A man should be free to say whatever the fuck he wants to say.... More

  • Sylar commented on September 8, 2010 07:02

    That tells you what? That they lost all sense of logic. So basically they are complete psychos. No wonder they have such a problem hearing the word.... More

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“Publishers Fear Mangaka, Not Pirates”

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Shonen Jump’s ultimatum to readers to stop uploading its manga online or face legal consequences is in response to publishers’ deeply held fears about a loss of control over their mangaka and a collapse in magazine sales, say commentators.

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  • Anonymous commented on February 7, 2013 09:38

    Hurrah, that's what I was looking for, what a stuff! existing here at this blog, thanks admin of this web site.... More

  • Anonymous commented on August 27, 2010 21:05

    What about a sort of "MangaFox"-esque website that would have all manga that any artist chooses to post, with ads integrated into webpage as you read, and also a link to the tankoubon version. Just an... More

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Shonen Jump to Pirate Scum: “This is War!”

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Shonen Jump has published an editorial threatening those who illegally copy its manga on the Internet with legal or criminal sanctions, and decrying all who would “wound the souls of mangaka.”

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  • Anonymous commented on July 23, 2010 22:40

    When that happens we will need to unite and cause a revolution for freedom!... More

  • Anonymous commented on April 24, 2010 23:22

    They won't win this war, Nothing can stop the INTERNET. The INTERNET and chuck norris are buddies, to declare war on the INTERNET is to declare war on chuck norris. And we know who comes out... More

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