The Osamu Tezuka Cultural Awards were presented last week. Some beautiful looking books I look forward to seeing. Check out the full list here (in Japanese but I’m sure you can navigate through the book covers).
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Posted by Anne Ishii on March 30th, 2010 at 8:01 AMI’m going to use this opportunity to segue into a mildly controversial but fully mutinous statement:
Why do good people design abusively ugly websites? I’m talking about web design that makes me want to papercut my eyeballs. Publishers can complain all day about the iPad, Kindle or kids-these-days but until our own digital content platforms look like something other than my grandma’s diaper, readership will not grow. If content is king, let’s do it the courtesy of dressing it up a little, shall we? A product planner for say, an accessory line or a marketing manager of a newspaper would get fired for some of the stuff I’ve seen. I won’t name names because I don’t have to. Every. Single. One. Of. Our. Publishing. Blogs. Is. Fugly.
No One’s Watching The Shigeru Mizuki Biopic
Posted by Anne Ishii on March 30th, 2010 at 7:08 AMAccording to Video Research (which I guess is like a Japanese Nielsen’s Ratings), an aforementioned Shigeru Mizuki bio-teleplay, Ge Ge Ge no Nyobo, is tanking. Its first episode, which aired this week, was watched by only 14% of TV viewers…
Osamu Tezuka Erotica Anthology
Posted by Anne Ishii on March 2nd, 2010 at 6:58 PMLast week, Studio Voice Comics released a tremendous, gorgeous, tactile two-volume anthology of Osamu Tezuka’s erotic manga. I bought myself copies while in Tokyo, and the production quality is simply gorgeous. So gorgeous I can’t bear to tarnish…
Biopic Miniseries on Shigeru Mizuki
Posted by Anne Ishii on March 2nd, 2010 at 6:44 PMGe Ge Ge no Nyobo (The Wife of Ge Ge Ge) is a biography based on a memoir written by Mizuki’s wife, Fumie Iida. She’s Ge Ge Ge’s wife because “Ge Ge Ge Kitaro” is Mizuki’s most famous manga/anime creation.…
Event: Postcards From the Edge
Posted by Anne Ishii on January 9th, 2010 at 8:06 AM(Apologies to the three of you who read me here as well as on my personal blog. You know I wouldn’t perform double penetration unless it was truly warranted.)
Postcards From the Edge is to VisualAIDS what the Post-It…
Blog: Korea in Japan
Posted by Anne Ishii on January 5th, 2010 at 1:12 AMWhile Japan’s Prime Minister Hatoyama suggested the introduction of legislation allowing ethnic Koreans to vote in Japanese elections (a small but tectonic gesture), Japanese gamers freak out when they see “Sea of Korea” in “El Oriente” –a historical…
Wine and Roses…and Manga
Posted by Anne Ishii on December 31st, 2009 at 4:37 AMApologies in advance for my holiday disappearance. In Fraunchy France now enjoying ice-cold weather and the first full moon in twenty years. More nonsense to come in the new year. Here’s a little wine news, to celebrate my Gallic hosts.
Agi Tadashi’s wine-appreciation manga series, “Kami no Shizuku” (Mead of the Gods) made Wine Magazine’s “2009 Most Powerful” list.
“These Manga Are Awesome!”
Posted by Anne Ishii on December 9th, 2009 at 2:27 PMI have no best of list, as mentioned previously, but here’s a neat take on such lists:
Kono manga ga sugoi! (loosely translates as “These manga are awesome!”) is a mook published at the end every year that lists…
See guys…
Posted by Anne Ishii on December 9th, 2009 at 11:39 AM…this is how you get results. Spokespeople to American youth for popular religion = Jars of Clay. In Japan = cosplayers in knee-highs and kitten ears distributing manga.
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