
A recently conducted ranking of the top 10 anime husbands reveals a distinctly shonen flavoured ranking…
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Blockbuster mangaka Shūhō Satō was so disgusted by the exploitation he endured at the hands of big publishers that he exposed them in a series of damaging online revelations, and then started his own online manga distribution service in competition.
He lays bare the exploitative publishing industry straitjacket forced on mangaka in a candid interview, reproduced below.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jun 15, 2010 02:23 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Internet, Nagoya, Naruto, One Piece, Schoolboys, Shonen, YouTube

A schoolboy who uploaded manga to YouTube in advance of its release has been arrested for copyright infringement.
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Eyebrows have been raised at the news that the fourth most popular manga in Russia is apparently one “Lolicon Phoenix,” rather that the usual generic shonen title expected.
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Otaku incensed at a mangaka’s decision to portray a heroine as being a non-virgin have launched a campaign of harassment which has seen the writer forced to close her blog, reporting that she is “heart-broken” over their hateful attacks.
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The “Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2010” ranking of manga, divided into manga for men and women, provides an interesting though not altogether “sugoi” selection of manga; below is the shonen/seinen list.
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Japanese asked which anime and manga had the greatest influence over them as children, shaping their lives and aspirations, gave a surprisingly uniform set of answers, with titles such as Gundam and Fist of the North Star evidently doing much to shape the minds of entire generations…
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Japan’s manga industry faces great peril, with a significant drop in overall sales and a precipitous drop in sales for manga magazines suggesting that change may be required sooner rather than later if the industry is to arrest its decline.
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Ultra Jump’s 10th anniversary cover has received a particularly ravishing illustration by renowned illustrator Range Murata, who has lately been illustrating their covers.
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Tamiki Wakaki, a top Shonen Sunday mangaka, has voiced his concerns that the Japanese manga industry is in long-term decline, and that authors not writing in the four staple genres of ero, parody, bishonen, and bishoujo can no longer expect to support themselves commercially.
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When 10,000 anime and manga fans were asked “who is the strongest character?”, the results were rather predictably dominated by a lengthy list of characters from top shonen manga…
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A recent survey asking Japanese which anime character they would most like to try living with has yielded some rather surprising results.
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