According to Ghibli World, the official Studio Ghibli blog, Miyazaki Hayao (known as Hayao Miyazaki over here) has begun publishing his first all-new manga in seven years. It's fully painted in watercolors, and is currently being serialized in a monthly scale model magazine in Japan.
Of course, as fantastic as this news is, there's no telling [...]
WOW we haven't done one of these in a while...
- We have no empirical evidence to support this theory, but when a marginally popular - and genuinely entertaining - show like BURN NOTICE has it's season finale pop the highest ratings the show's seen to date, our first instinct is that people have been slowly [...]
Feb 9th, 2009
by Nerd Dads.
Well, we missed our Friday update, but we're back in the saddle. Let's see what we can find out there...
- TOKYOPOP is bringing Domokun to the US in yet another format - full-color manga. The little monster that somehow became Target's de facto mascot during last Halloween has come a long way from his kitten [...]
While it's not unusual, or even unreasonable, for companies to latch onto trends in order to make their buck off them, I was kind of surprised to see that Faber-Castell is not only marketing a line of "create your own manga" supplies, but that they actually sell colored marker sets with specific manga genres in [...]
This Kubricky looking Lupin USB thumb drive is rather pricey at $64 for an 8 gig device, but you cannot deny that it's a thing of beauty. No word on posability or on whether or not the gun is a separate accessory or if it's permanently melted to Lupin's hand.
Also available in Evangelion and Gundam [...]
It's not due in theaters for nearly a year, but here's the first (really short) teaser trailer for the new "Astro Boy" movie. Thank god they went with an animated flick and not some sort of weird live-action version. It's just too bad that Osamu Tezuka couldn't live to see the future he imagined his [...]