Mangapolo, much like the global explorer Marco Polo, is on a mission to go to the "land of manga" to share it's beauty with the Internet users of the world. It's a YouTube channel that features various videos related to manga.
All levels and nationalities welcome! The best translator will win a trip to Japan and be recognized as a professional translator of their chosen work and the runners-up will receive tablets! Start translating now!
*Hozuki no Reitetsu* is a popular manga by Natsumi Eguchi that is currently serialized in Kodansha’s *Morning*. It was previously announced that this work was being adapted into an anime, and now, information on the cast has been revealed.
TG Rights Studio (Shibuya, Tokyo) and M&C, the publishing department of Kompas Gramedia Group (Jakarta, Indonesia) started a joint venture of publishing complete remakes of manga popular in Japan by creating them with Indonesian settings.
The comic *Super Seisyun Brothers*, currently serialized on the net via Comic Polaris, has been made into an anime that will begin broadcasting on Sept. 13 in Japan.
The Tokyo Crazy Kawaii Implementation Committee has announced the start of localization and event projects to naturally penetrate lifestyles throughout the world with Japan’s *kawaii* (cute) culture.
Fuji Shimbo and Media Factory are known for taking the lead of part of Japan’s entertainment industry, and now the two companies have come together on the huge endeavor that is *Ange Vierge*.
This is the grand story of a world encapsulated within 50-meter-tall walls. Outside of these walls roam mysterious, gigantic creatures called Titans: the biggest threat to humanity due to their insatiable appetite for humans. In order to protect themselves from this menace, humanity lives their lives peacefully inside giant walls.
“The Basketball which Kuroko Plays Animate Fair” is being held until Aug. 25 in the anime speciality store Animate. The second season of the anime will begin this October.
Spike Chunsoft is currently developing an *Attack on Titan* Nintendo 3DS game adaptation of the popular manga currently serialized in *Bessatsu Shonen Magazine*.
Moyoco Anno is a manga artist who has created various works including *Sakuran* and *Hataraki Man* as well as female characters who are strong in their beliefs.
The September issue of *Nakayoshi*, a popular shōjo magazine in Japan, released on Aug. 3 and includes the “Evolved Style Manga Artist Ultimate Set,” a power-up of the last, extremely popular “Manga Artist Set,” as a gift.
*Death Note*, a monumental work that symbolizes the ‘00s, isn’t your ordinary intellectual and cool suspense work. It is a reflection of the current age, a mixture of tragedy and comedy which gave birth to a closed off society.
It seems that the long-running, hugely popular stage musical *The Prince of Tennis* will see an especially large surge in its popularity this autumn. This is due to the stage musical coming to movie theaters.
In our present age when anyone can freely upload information to the Internet, there is an increasing number of people who use the Internet as a means for promotion and advocacy as well as people who browse that information.
The long-awaited anime adaptation for *Nobunagun*, a manga currently serializing in the monthly publication *Comic Earth Star* with a favorable reputation, is finally underway!
A joint contest between the hugely popular manga *Attack on Titan*, which has surpassed 23 million copies in print, and the illustration submission site Pixiv is now underway.
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