
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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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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Newly airing anime Level E has the distinction of being one of the few recent series not to focus almost solely on schoolgirls – and viewers are acclaiming it as one of the best of the season.
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Japanese asked to rank the most memorable teachers of anime and manga have little difficulty in putting together a list of great teachers.
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One of the writers with Kojima Productions has written a politely scathing piece in which he decries the JRPG’s single-minded obsession with having overwrought teenage boys as their protagonists, suggesting that is tied to a wider lack of heroic adult male archetypes in contemporary Japanese culture.
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An upcoming Chinese anime, KUIBA, is being touted as the “Chinese Naruto,” and will be the first Chinese anime ever to be distributed in Japan.
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The editorial staff of Jump Square have accused the new generation of aspiring mangaka that they don’t put enough effort into drawing “cool” male characters.
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Police have arrested two boys for the crime of duelling, blaming the influence of shonen manga.
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Japanese women in their twenties asked what shonen manga they would like to see their prospective sons reading yield up a list with several interesting surprises.
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