Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 14, 2009
ANN reports that the new One Piece movie has broken the record for per-screen revenue over the weekend, beating out the Japanese opening weekends of both Ponyo and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The film earned over 1 billion yen (a little under $12 million US) in its first two days, which also beats [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 10, 2009
Ready to get meta? You’d better be, because according to Shonen Jump, the Obata Takeshi/Ooba Tsugumi manga Bakuman is scheduled for an anime next fall. The Shonen Jump manga, about two kids trying to get a manga published in Shonen Jump, is a strange beast. It offers strangely realistic portrayals of the stresses and horrors [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 30, 2009
Now is the perfect time to start following One Piece, and I’ll tell you why. One Piece is one of the most popular manga in history, with over 170 million copies sold over the past 12 years of its existence. It embodies the Shonen Jump spirit and takes it to the next level, combining epic [...]
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