http://cbldf.org/2014/06/cnn-spectacularly-fails-to-understand-manga-and-anime/
As Japan prepares to implement a new law which bans the possession of child pornography but exempts manga and anime, CNN released an over-the-top sensation…
Just remember, no matter how bad Droids and Ewoks were, it could have been much much much worse.
New York City has a lot of things, but not everything. Whereas this will come as a shock to some Big Appleites, perhaps their outrage will be softened with the news that their hamlet will be honored with its first major anime festival.
The New York Anime Festival will happen December 7 – 9 at various locations in Manhattan, including the always overcrowded, hard-to-get-to Javits Convention Center and, in a brilliant stroke, the ImaginAsian Theater on East 59th Street. That bodes well for a whole lotta screenings, and the location couldn’t be more significant. Kudos.
The show is being run by Reed Communications, the same folks who bring us the horribly managed New York ComicCon. It calls itself a celebration of classic and cutting-edge anime, manga, and Japanese culture, and it’s about time New York got in on the action.
Here’s hoping the show will come off better than their comics show did the past two years.
More info: http://www.nyanimefestival.com/en-us/index.cfm
The first American Anime Awards were handed out at the New Yorker hotel in (where else) New York last Saturday, and by popular demand (Sid Popular sent us an e-mail – and thanks to Steve Allen for that gag!), here are the winners:
Best Actor: Vic Mignogna (Fullmetal Alchemist, Macross)
Best Anime Theme Song: Rewrite (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Best Actress: Mary Elizabeth (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG)
Best Comedy Anime: FLCL
Best Actor in a Comedy: Dave Wittenberg (Zatch Bell)
Best Anime Feature: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Best Actress in a Comedy: Debi Derryberry (Zatch Bell)
Best Short Series: FLCL
Best Cast: Fullmetal Alchemist
Best Long Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Best DVD Package Design: Fullmetal Alchemist
Best Manga: Fruits Basket
Anime Selects and Ziddio.com are looking for a reporter who will relate news from the Tokyo Anime Fair next month for VOD and online video segments for a show produced by Comcast’s Select on Demand.
Wannabe reporters can attend auditions at the NY Comic Con at the Javits Center in New York City on February 24 or 25, at the Anime Selects booth, or you can upload your video audition clip at Ziddio.com via the "Be a Tokyo Reporter" link. Applicants must be 18 years or older, have a valid U.S. Passport that won’t expire in the next six months, and have a general to expert knowledge of the anime industry and be physically and mentally capable to travel overseas.
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