Sounds good to me

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

At the Translation Dojo, translator William Flanagan (Tsubasa, School Rumble) is blogging about translating humor and sound effects.

It’s been a week since the first-ever Yomi Awards, so at MangaCast, Ed and Jarred are already talking about next year’s awards. Also, Ed has a list of new manga titles that for one reason or another didn’t get a big splash at SDCC.

In other awards news, ComiPress translates an article about the 10th anniversary of the Osamu Tezuka awards. Also from ComiPress, watch the first 10 minutes of the Death Note movie for free.

This may be a Manga Creep Milestone: Christopher Butcher looks at next week’s shipping list and discovers that his store will be getting more manga than floppies.

Aaarrrghh!

Teens and adults are also buying Japanese animation comics, or “anime” comics, Davis said. Titles like Manga or InuYasha come out with new issues every three to six months rather than monthly and cost more than average comics ($7.95 to $9.99 as opposed to $3). Consumers notice a bigger difference in content than price, said Myth Adventures owner Helgi Davis.

“Seventy-five percent of the people who buy (anime comics) are women,” he said. “It’s they do love stories, romance, fantasy and things like that.”

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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2 Responses to Sounds good to me

  1. Tina Anderson says:
    July 29, 2006 at 5:13 pm

    Well we all know that manga/anime is made up of a female ‘consumer-culture’ and western comics are riddled with nothing but males and their ‘collector culture’, but what about all those FEMALES who COLLECT anime-figures??? 0_o

  2. Shamdu says:
    July 30, 2006 at 11:44 am

    Hehe, still not as bad as all those “educated” articles in the Israeli papers and such… Now those are what I call brain hurting. XD

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