People in Okinawa aren’t happy about the U.S. military base that’s located there, and after reading several recent articles about servicemen raping Japanese teenagers I can’t say I blame them (not that all servicemen are rapists, mind you. Most are just fine). Now the U.S. military is trying to teach little Japanese kids to love the base- through manga! BBC [...]
One sunny day, a cat and her brood of kittens go for a walk in the city. One little kitten, a gray tabby. Meanders off and becomes separated from her family. After dodging giant dogs and rushing cars, she collapses in a park, where a mother and her toddler son pick her up and take her home. They can’t keep [...]
Kotaku says that Tecmo Koei will not fuck with Fist of the North Star when it’s released here in the States this Fall. In fact, word is it will be even bloodier. I am happy.
Are you proud to call yourself an otaku, completely ignoring the bad connotations thanks to the “Otaku Killer”? Do you live in your mom’s basement and work in IT and cry every night because Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion isn’t real and she can’t hold you in her arms at night until you fall asleep? Then you may just be [...]
Hey hey! What do you say! It’s a brand-new trailer for the live-action version of Beck today!] Trailer! Koyuki looks kind of older than he should be. Which is weird, since he’s Asian one would expect him to look even younger than 14.
Aint-It-Cool-News reports that directing duo the Hughes Brothers have signed on to bring Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira to the silver screen. I can’t say I’m a fan – From Hell was an abomination, but only because they jettisoned all the cool mystical stuff that made the original comic so amazing. In all fairness, I can’t see a major studio letting anyone [...]
So after about a million years, Yoko Matsushita has finally released another volume of Yami no Matsuei/Descendants of Darkness. About Damn Time Although at this point I really no longer care. The eleventh volume was released by Viz back in 2006. I vaguely remember that the characters were off in the spirit world catching shikigami or something, and there was [...]
Go Nagai has created approximately 8,000 popular manga series, half of them about giant robots and the other half with ‘Devil-’ in the title. In my mind, the fact that he created Devilman Lady means he is one of the Great Manga Creators, and should have his face carved into a mountain next to Tezuka and Urasawa (Shairo Keats agrees, [...]
Dark Horse is one of my favorite comic publishers. I’ve never read anything they produced that I didn’t like. If I ever get to work in the industry, I would want to work at Dark Horse. So anytime I see an interview with their CEO, Mike Richardson (which happens more often than one would expect), I read it. He’s an [...]
Lots of news today, but the most exciting for the Yellow Menace staff is that there are a couple new Ghost in the Shell manga on the horizon: ANN Article Both will be based on the Stand Alone Complex anime; one will follow the Tachikomatic Days shorts about the lovable blue insect-tanks, and the other will follow the human (Well, [...]
Good news: someone has finally been hired to pen a screenplay for the live-action Ghost in the Shell flick. Bad news: they suck. Okay, maybe suck is a bit pejorative. But take a look at this resume and tell me if it inspires confidence in you. 2002 Birds of Prey Executive producer, writer for episodes “Slick” and “Premiere” 2004 Alexander [...]
A live-action version of Gantz, huh? Hot damn, this should be some awesome twisted shit. Wow! As the manga progresses, it eventually becomes straight-up porno. The anime doesn’t go quite that far, but if the movie stays true to the source material there should be tons of gross violence and naked chicks being assaulted by dogs.
A parent finds that their kid is reading Dragon Ball and that there is nudity and sex jokes in it. Parent sflips their lid, school library pulls manga etc, etc. Now, I would let a 9-year-old read Dragon Ball, because I am cool like that. But I can see why parents (probably the same parents who freak out about In [...]
I am typing this one-handed (Gohan is feeling fussy and absolutely CANNOT be happy unless someone is holding him) so forgive any typos. Remember my review of the King of Thorn manga? Here it Is! There’s a feature-length film coming out in 2010. The trailer looks pretty sweet! Watch it!
This sounds insanely cool… VIZ MEDIA PRESENTS THE HISTORICAL AND ROYAL INTRIGUE OF ŌOKU: THE INNER CHAMBERS MANGA SERIES Award-Winning Historical Science Fiction Drama Set In An Alternate Version Of Edo Japan Where Gender Roles Are Reversed San Francisco, CA, August 6, 2009 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation [...]