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  • Yuichi Yokoyama

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    The Drawn! blog has just introduced me to the wonderful illustrative stylings of Yuichi Yokoyama, and I know absolutely must pick up some of his books. I really like clean lines and sense of motion seen in his manga work. See the original Drawn! post for more examples (and here also).

  • Japanese Girls Love Gay Boys

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    Yuki takes us on a tour of a few of her favorite shoujou manga featuring gay boys, a genre that seems to be rather popular here. At the other end of the spectrum, Momus shares his love for Japanese AV.

  • Tees from Skwat

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    Get your anime/manga flavoured Apple-lovin’ tees from Skwat, a Belgian t-shirt designer! Link via Cult of Mac.

  • Black and White, the Movie

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    Great, great news, if you’re fan of Taiyo Matsumoto’s work (like me): Anime News Network reports that Taiyo Matsumoto’s symbolic urban fantasy Black & White, released domestically by Viz, will be adapted into a movie for release in 2007. The movie directed by Animatrix producer Michael Arias and animated by Studio 4C. In a short…

  • Urasawa Talks Pluto

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    I just found this Asahi article in which Naoki Urasawa talks about his latest manga series, PLUTO. This is the first time I find anything in English concerning the creator talking about his work.

  • TCJ Does Shojo

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    I’ve brought up the subject of shojo manga a few times recently, and a reader lets me know that the latest issue of THE COMICS JOURNAL (269) devotes most of its content to the topic. I’ll definitely be on the lookout for it — I think they carry it at the Shibuya Tower Records, but…

  • Miss Mizuno and the Anna Miller Girls

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    Spend a Sunday afternoon with Patrick Macias and Junko Mizuno in Kichijoji.

  • Shojo Beat

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    The first issue of SHOJO BEAT (previously mentioned here) is out in the US and Canada. It leads off with 100 pages of NANA. Here’s a review of the first issue. When I was at Junkudo the other day, I noticed they had quite a few volumes of NANA in French, and so grabbed the…

  • Die!

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    And here I was thinking that Detective Conan was just for kids (from Kissui.net): In the comic book Detective Conan, I forgot which volume it was, but as is always the case there are murders. A girl in the countryside was dating an American, and after he had left her place to temporary go back…

  • Hanaotoko

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    Last night I read a scanlation of the first book of Taiyo Matsumoto’s latest series, HANAOTOKO, and loved it to death. It’s a fairly low-key story of a boy who goes to live with his baseball-obsessed (to an abnormal degree) dad. One of the best things I’ve read in a while, and I can’t wait…