Community Calendar and Area Events Oct 4, 2009
Teen Program - Anime ... Anime DVDs are available for check out to those 12 years and older with a valid library card. (Lake Wales News, FL)
Dragon*Con brings out enthusiasts' inner geek Sep 7, 2009
MARTA's central Five Points station was peopled Saturday morning with anime heroines, a wizardess with green lipstick and an incongruous ladybug who appeared to be about 8 years old -- all mingling with football fans, a few of whom were in pretty outlandish getups themselves. There were no incidents, however, as intergalactic military police were on hand everywhere to maintain order. (CNN -- Tech)
J-Pop explodes: New People mall opening in S.F. Aug 10, 2009
"If you're in your teens or early 20s, it's hard to miss manga and anime," says Frederik L. Schodt, the Bay Area author of "Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics." If you're outside the demographic cohort that grew up on Gundam and Pokmon, you're quite possibly a parent or grandparent or unrelated adult who shared viewing time, if not game time ... Thus, more and more people realized that "manga and anime are fun, and they're interesting. If it weren't interesting and fun, it wouldn't... (San Francisco Chronicle)
From the HIP Aug 3, 2009
If you dig pop art, anime, psychedelia or futuristic techno-art, you might just want to check out Dalek's artwork at "2D: The Art of 2Day," a fundraiser for The Contemporary Museum in Chinatown at SoHo Mixed Media Bar this First Friday ... He's known for combining street, Japanese anime and urban flavors. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Astro Boy Gets Voice Talent Jul 17, 2009
The iconic character Astro Boy has found global popularity since his creation in the early 1950s by Japan's Osamu Tezuka, known as the "god of manga" and "father of anime", and has been the hero of three acclaimed animated television series aired around the world. Astro Boy, slated for North American release on October 23, 2009, is being distributed worldwide by Summit Entertainment except for Imagi's reserved territories of Japan, Hong Kong and China. (IGN PS2)
* Taipeis underground gaming heaven Feb 28, 2009
The shops, located in a strip of Taipei City Mall (x_aU) that is fittingly named the Electronic Information Quarter (qlT), offers a smorgasbord of video games, manga, collectible figures, anime DVDs, gundam robot kits and gashapon capsule toys to proud devotees of geek culture, many of whom refer to themselves by the Japanese term otaku ... Urban vinyl, anime and gundam lovers will also find plenty to gawk at, especially in Indian ... The merchandise in this toyshop ranges from... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
