
Fans have demonstrated passion for their favorite manga by voting for the top mangaka of 2015, surprising few as the most popular mangaka masters of blockbuster shonen fame easily nab the top spots.
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With unusual candour for a top mangaka, on the eve of the release of the first animated Dragon Ball movie in over a decade series creator Akira Toriyama has taken some time out to bash the notoriously bad Hollywood adaptation he authorised.
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Dragon Ball seems to have been granted a temporary reprieve from further violations, for the new project has been denied in totality by its supposed scriptwriter.
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Dragon Ball fans have firmly buried their collective faces in their palms with the realisation that 2012 may well be the end, for their precious manga if nothing else – a second Dragon Ball movie adaptation is apparently in the works.
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A ranking of the top 10 mangaka to have changed the history of manga reveals some distinctly uncontroversial choices.
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Artist Aoi Nishimata, renowned as the artist behind Shuffle and a variety of adult games and visual novels, has been at the centre of a storm of controversy as it became known that she was selected as a “representative” artist for Japan, to contribute an illustration to a Lucas endorsed commemorative art book. Non-fans fulminate that the opportunity should have gone to someone else…
For her part, she describes how excited she was to have no less than George Lucas himself look over her contribution, and apparently like it.
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