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spdk1 · 2 years

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REVIEW: Wonder 3 (1965)

A Manga by Osamu Tezuka While not the creator of manga (Japanese comic books) by any means, Osamu Tezuka can definitely be seen as one of the forefathers of the genre, and perhaps the person that made it what it has been for the last eighty or so years. Even anime, animation from Japan, can trace its popularity back to the works of Tezuka. In recent years, a lot of western manga publishers have…

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#1965 #60&039;s #classic books #comic #comic book #comics #Digital Manga Publishing #DMP #Japan #Manga #Manga Classics #Osamu Tezuka #sci-fi #science fiction #super-hero

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afn-4-blog · 2 months

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Illustrator Available: Ashley Nitkin

AshleyNitkin.wordpress.com

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[email protected], [email protected], [email protected].

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sysig · 10 months

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Me while rereading: You should kill him

Also:

They marriages hehe ♥

#Come closer Morinaga I hold no ill will towards you lol #It's playful ribbing :) Mostly :) Lol ♪#So I may or may not have come into the ownership of the entire currently-released collection of KoiBo manga in Japanese lol #It's so nice to own ahhhh <3 <3 It's so strange to finally hold it!#Also can we talk about manga prices in Japanese vs English? I get the whole translation and publishers thing but like #581円 for one volume? That's like four dollars USD! We average $10 here! How'd that happen #I mean I still didn't pay even that much for them since they were secondhand hehe ♥#But reading them physically is such a weird experience now haha - I've spent years reading them only digitally!#Previously there was like this continuous flow from one volume into the next - no physical delineation! No hard stops!#So now re-learning where the story beats are and how that affects the timbre of storytelling - it's interesting :0 #Seeing that it took three volumes - or two depending on how you count it lol - it took til the third volume anyhow #For them to start to get on the same page and actually communicate and then all the middle-amble (preamble in the middle lol)#It's interesting! It's not quite like reading it blind again - especially since I can't actually read the kanji yet lol #But it does change a bit of the feel :) I'm excited to start to be able to put events to volumes rather than chapters! :D #The little bits of English that dot around are always very charming of course haha ♪#Since they got married in the US they put English on their wedding card! That's so cute!#That is an actual picture I took while reading haha ♪#That's another thing - reading in person really lets me see the toning as intended and ahhhh it's so pretty <3 #The details really pop! That aspect is like reading blind again hehe #Happy :D #Koisuru Boukun

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birdmenmanga · 11 months

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not me sending myself to eeby deeby at 5 am by thinking too hard about chorus

#just thinking thoughts...#i mean what's new right. this hasn't happened in a while so it was about time #but i feel like a core concept of it is 'the endlings of suffering'#where you know. when awful things come to an end and things are better for the next generation #but there is that one last generation that gets to suffer. and like how do you cope with that #i think i feel this way a lot with art. born just too late to participate in the traditional manga publishing scene #born just too early to learn the ropes of digital art.#born just in time for everything i learned about traditional art to go obsolete as I'm trying to begin making a living #i feel this way about being transgender too #my generation was probably one of the last to not have trans people #we just didn't know that was a possibility and it wasn't normalized yet #but the internet exploded and became widely accessible to the youth and like. it's socially acceptable to be trans now #it's normal to have some trans kids in your class now #and i wouldn't want it any other way #but i just wish you know. WE got to experience that too. but we were just a bit too early.#we were the endlings of the long loneliness of being different from our peers and not knowing why #i dunno. it's like how my mom is in the last generation of people to have polio.#like there's a vaccine for it now and there are virtually no new cases #it's a specific kind of grief that's like. I'm so happy for you. i just wish i got to partake in it too #anyways. eating sand. everyone ignore me.

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ebookporn · 1 year

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Kodansha Launching K Manga Japanese Comics Platform in U.S.

by Patrick Frater

Leading Japanese publisher, Kodansha is to launch an online comic book distribution service from May. Titled K Manga, the operation will go live in May and be exclusive to readers in the U.S.

The company is publisher of many of the best-known manga titles in history including “Attack on Titan” and “Ghost in the Shell.” These and some 400 others will be available at the launch of the serialization platform.

The roster includes approximately 70 titles of ongoing manga currently in serialization across a multitude of genres including action, thriller, isekai (speculative fiction), romance, and fantasy. Users will have access to K Manga’s library and will be able to read limited chapters of some manga free of charge.

“K Manga will endeavor to release the latest chapters of K Manga original serialized manga and weekly and monthly magazines of Kodansha containing a collection of different manga titles simultaneously in the U.S and Japan, making the latest stories available earlier than any other competing U.S. services,” the company said.

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sins-legacy · 2 years

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Ken Lanix.

Art @byallen

#original character #art #anime #manga #Illustration #digital art #sin's legacy #book #character #self published #independant #line art #sketch

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sapphosheiir · 2 years

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Being a Tezuka fan and actually trying to own any of his manga in the states is so fucking hard like look at this preorder date next to the actual release date

#Kodansha is actually one of the reputable publishers too lol #A lot of his more obscure titles are licensed by digital manga press who took like 10 years to release them after the kickstarters

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sammyscloset · 2 months

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Hello tumblr platform! I have been MIA for a little bit but I am back. I’m struggling with my mental health these last few weeks after losing a loved one, I wanted to turn that energy of sorrow and pain into something beautiful and fun. So I created a coloring book to heal a part of my inner child that is broken beyond measure. Now, my coloring book isn’t a master piece by any means but I love all 25 pages of it with my whole heart! It is a coloring book for Giraffe Lovers. Giraffes have always been my favorite animal and brought me happiness through every walk of my life so I wanted to share that with all of you. Please don’t feel obligated to buy it that’s not my intention for this post, I just wanted to share a part of my heart with all of you. Some of the pages are on the back of the book cover and I really hope you enjoy them!

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intomybubble · 10 months

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Its been a week or something since I started reading Shounen Note (middle school choir manga), and I'm almost finished. Its not a long series (30 Ch), but it has taken me longer than I expected to finish it. I think the topic is interesting, but the way it's told didn't particularly grab me like some other manga I've read. I will say though, that I really like the art work. The linework is really good (its an older manga so it's still drawn traditionally, and for me it gives a different vibe than some recent digitally drawn series imo), and I really how the mangaka illustrates the atmosphere around the characters

#desiree talks #desiree reads #i wasn't 100% about it being drawn traditionally #but the fantranslators added in a picture of one of the physical pages the author posted online #and the series was published around 2010 before digitally drawing manga got more common #there's some really good digital manga out there but...#sometimes the linework is very obviously digital in not a good way #and the lack of screentones make me sad #some traditional artists use a lot of hashing to mimic shadows rather than rely on screentones and stuff #but some just look bad (ex route end)#and the coloring just goes for simple grayscale #so i really appreciate manga with nice lines and screentone usage #like montage wasn't my favorite to read but the linework is so crisp i loved it

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m0e-ru · 2 years

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if i were more inclined and had the skillset to do more lore centric abstract art you could get mist blorbo groveling on their knees crying about idk their identity crisis or something instead you get Meow Meow gas station attendant everyday

#kommento #// i infodump and process thoughts about au and draw something after weeks guess what it was #// wish i was one of those pixiv artists with a 200+ page digital self published manga as haunting dedication to their blorbo #// no im just an insomniac wondering if i'll sob til i sleep or pass out from being too excited #// once i start writing it's the end for all of you but if i never start anything thats the end of Me !#// posting in personal tag either this is a harvard social exprimnt or a screening test sorry for falling apart online guys i didnt mean it

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l6sadi · 2 months

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Double Page Digital Art of the entire cast of Lupin III at Mount Rushmore made by Monkey Punch.

Originally published in the Weekly Manga Action magazine on May 18, 1999.

Scans by the GOAT: @Jordi811_ on Twitter

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yyh4ever · 9 days

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Source: Yoshihiro Togashi Official X

Togashi-sensei has been updating his X account with some old doodles and unpublished genko (manuscripts) from different works. This time, he posted those amazing raw manuscripts from Yu Yu Hakusho.

He explained that in the case of color manuscripts, the color was only applied to the copies, so it's thrilling he shared the original one, his line art is so beautiful! By the way, the color printing is from chapter 103, released in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine in 1993.

Source: Weekly Shounen Jump issue 5-6 (merger), 1993

It was later published in the kanzenban edition of the manga:

Source: Chapter 103, Kanzenban Edition, volume 10, 2004.

And that's from the full-color digital edition, released in 2015:

Source: Chapter 103, Digital Colored Edition, volume 12, 2015.

Bui showed up in the final match, I wonder what happened to him.

The Toguro Brothers are from the cover of Volume 12 (tankobon, 1993)

Here's a clean illustration from the Yu Yu Hakusho Artbook:

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ebookporn · 1 year

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Anime's Popularity Helps Japanese Publishers Navigate Shift to Digitalization

Anime and light novels pair well with digital visuals, says expert Atsuo Nakayama. And Japanese publishers have the largest number of series for all ages.

The publishing industry has been in a recession for a long time. But with the popularity of anime as a tailwind, sales by major Japanese publishers are seeing a promising comeback. Demand for Entertainment at home has risen as people hole up due to COVID-19. So digital and foreign market sales have grown rapidly.

For Japanese publishers that deal with comics and light novels — content which is easily digitized — the shift toward digitalization has been paying off.

Records Set by Powerhouse Japanese Publishers

KADOKAWA published its consolidated financial statement for March 2022 in May, showing sales of ¥221.2 billion JPY ($1.65 billion USD). Its results were 5.4% higher than the previous accounting period. Moreover, KADOKAWA increased its operating profits to ¥18.5 billion JPY ($138 million USD), a 35.9% increase from the previous period. Both are the highest they have ever been.

In addition to popular comics and light novel series, the publishers saw favorable sales in children's books. And the number of physical copies of books sold overseas increased as well.

KADOKAWA's online digital book site BOOK☆WALKER saw a rise in paying users not only in Japan but also in Taiwan and English-speaking countries. The Japanese publisher also had significant success in its gaming industry.

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tamapalace · 3 months

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April/May Issue of Pucchigumi Now Available, Features First Tamagotchi Uni Manga

It’s finally here! Teased back in December, 2023, Bandai Japan has informed followers that the April/May issue of Pucchigumi, a Japanese monthly children’s magazine published By Shonakukan is here. Starting Friday, March 1st, 2024 you’ll be able to pick up a copy in Japan. This issue features the first episode of the manga series, so we do expect to see more in the near future. These illustrations should be really cute, and have an awesome story

There’s more! In the April/May 2024 issue you’ll also find a Tamagotchi Uni 16-digit download code (at the end of the episode)! This download code is for the Happi²♡Tiara accessory which is so cute! The download code for this item is an unlimited download code, which you can enter into your Tamagotchi Uni! The download code is HLO9 AC7B GJ4D 5FHR.

#tamapalace #tamagotchi #tmgc #tamagotchiuni #tamagotchi uni #uni #tamatag #virtualpet #bandai #manga #pucchigumi #magazine

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cardcaptorchronicles · 1 year

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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Anime Gets Sequel!

The Sakura Fes event announced today (April 1st, of course!) that an anime sequel to the Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen (Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card) television anime is in production and will adapt the rest of the story until its conclusion.

CLAMP launched the sequel manga in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine in June 2016. Kodansha published the 14th volume on March 31, and the 15th and final volume will ship on October 13.

Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga digitally and in print in English, and released the 12th volume on October 18.

Official site: https://ccsakura-official.com/anime/index5.html Official Twitter: @ccsakura_info Source: Comic Natalie

#cardcaptor sakura #cardcaptor sakura clear card #news #FINALLYYY!!!!!!!!!

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elendsessor · 14 days

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lesser known megaten spin-offs are weird: ddsat edition

ok i’ve always wanted to talk about the long history of megaten spin-offs, since not only are a ton of them japanese-exclusive and on mobile phones, there’s quite a few bits of supplementary reading.

when it comes to digital devil saga, it’s actually a bit more straightforward than other supplementary material for older atlus titles, as the plots follow events pre-dds or during dds, with quantum being a retelling based on some of the original ideas for the duology that never saw the light of day.

but i’ve straight up never heard of this one and only today discovered its existence while browsing tags on a fairly abandoned blog. in fact… i don’t know if anyone knows about it. i’ve seen some of the short stories like dogdays mentioned in the past but never this one.

i’m assuming this is mostly because it’s a separate story set in universe, is a one shot, and wasn’t written by yu godai.

this is digital devil saga: avatar turner: shinen no matou (“tower of the abyss”) written by moheji yamasaki.

i can’t find a translation of this and i’m not willing to trust ai to do the translating, and there are barely any scans out there. the only ones i could find were from the post i found the manga through, but the account is deactivated. (i reblogged it so here’s some of the scans.) congrats lemniscation for being one of maybe 5 people who know about this, i salute you and hope you are well wherever you are.

and yes the atma avatars are original designs not seen anywhere else, or so i can assume. maybe there’s a mystical other spin off that uses them. idk.

now i know fandom wikis tend to have varying levels of accuracy, but there is a page on the megami tensei fandom wiki and some info is better than none. the manga was apparently published in 2005 and there is one named character listed on the wiki. one.

give it up for kyle, the goofy blue haired dude on the cover. that’s our protagonist. the end.

yeah there’s nothing else i could find. at least the mobile game has a basic plot outline and hey it even details how sheffield’s the final boss yay????

there’s a lot of untranslated stuff from around this time period, such as the entirety of the dsrk lite novel, but this one stands out because of just how different it is. i’m not surprised at the lack of information—being japan exclusive in the early-mid-2000s back when a niche american audience was already at the most niche it could get does it no favors, but if anyone does have scans or links to scans, translated or not, please share them because this is actually cool.

#shantien rambles #digital devil saga #dds #ddsat #megaten

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