The age old problem of dressing sharp while still showing your passion for manga has been solved. Japanese department store Isetan will be selling limited run trench coats with linings designed by popular manga artists. Artists including Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto), Takeshi Konomi …
Based on a series of light novels written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec, Sword Art Online is also the name of a Virtual Reality Massively Multiple Online Role Playing Game (VRMMORPG) where the players are injected into the …
Ten years ago, a collaboration between Disney and Square Enix (then called Squaresoft) resulted in the birth of a video game franchise called Kingdom Hearts. Last month, Square Enix announced that it would combine the games Kingdom Hearts Final Mix …
Have you ever wondered what project an artist is working on after they finish a successful manga series? Here’s a sampling of what Hiromu Arakawa, Hiroyuki Takei, Takeshi Obata and Rumiko Takahashi have been up to recently. ■ ■ ■
There’s a new cross over coming to the Nintendo 3DS; a simulation RPG titled Project X Zone (which is pronounced Project Cross Zone). Stocked with numerous characters from franchises owned by Capcom, Bandai Namco Games and Sega, some of which …
Kazue Kato’s popular manga series Blue Exorcist is finally making its way onto the silver screen. According to the movie’s Japanese web site, advance tickets went on sale August 25th ahead of the film’s December 28th, 2012 premiere. The web …
Last year, Nintendo published a really neat book on the Legend of Zelda series. Cover-to-cover, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia is chock full of colour illustrations, never before seen sketches, history and an official timeline of all the Zelda …
Last year, Namco’s Namja Town served up various dishes promoting the new movie, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos. This time, the theme park is cooking up a storm for the upcoming film Naruto the Movie: Road to Ninja. …
The official Rurouni Kenshin movie web site recently posted a new minute long trailer of the upcoming film. The movie is based upon Nobuhiro Watsuki’s classic manga series Rurouni Kenshin published in the mid-1990s. Additional trailers in other languages, including …
In the Saturday, June 23rd edition of Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Masashi Kishimoto disclosed that his series, Naruto, “is rising towards its climax”. Kishimoto went on stating that he has the ending set in his mind and that the the story is …
