Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Tutorial by Mark Crilley: How to Draw Backgrounds (3 Point perspective)
7:46 PM
Toki Nakamura
There is a trick to it which will make your action scenes look deeper, with more thought to the page. If you master this, you can give any of your frames a lot of life.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Psycho-pass promo, premieres on October in Noitamina slot
10:53 AM
Toki Nakamura
Still intrigued by the disclosed details, Reborn! manga creator Akira Amano is responsible for the original character designs. Tomokazu Seki will play a voice-acting role. The name of Seki's character is Shinya Kōgami. The tagline of the anime is, "That muzzle dispenses justice."
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To-Love-Ru Darkness promo, premieres in October
10:46 AM
Toki Nakamura
The main characters this time are Momo and Yami, but the other heroines will also appear in the new anime. The story will include Momo's "slightly risqué" "harem plan." Atsushi Ootsuki is returning from the first To Love-Ru television anime to direct at Xebec, and To Love-Ru veteran Yuichi Ouka is also designing the characters. The cast is returning from the first series as well.
Source: ANN
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Princess Resurrection manga final arc starts in November
10:41 AM
Toki Nakamura
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Kodansha USA will keep licensing the series.
Gintama anime is back on October 4!!!!
10:29 AM
Toki Nakamura
Studio Sunrise and TV Tokyo's have confirmed that Gintama will return on Thursdays at 6:00 p.m., starting October 4.
In addition to "Yorinuki Gintama-san" (a repeat of selected Gintama anime episodes), the broadcast will include new Gintama episodes. There's still details of the upcoming movie to be announced, other than author Sorachi Hideaki personally involved with the script.
(let's pray this comeback is permanent!)
Friday, August 24, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Tutorial by Mark Crilley: Backgrounds - One Point Perspective
8:57 PM
Toki Nakamura
So far one of the best I've found. There is no definite way to do it, but it has the best explanation. I love how it showcases the different effects and types you can achieve for your story :)
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Rumor: Naruto and Sasuke ending up as a couple in the manga?
5:38 PM
Toki Nakamura
| Thank you for giving me the excuse to post this XD |
This rumor has been making quite the rounds on fansites and deviantart, it originated on a miniconference in ExpoAnimeUSA held in 2009, when the author gave an interview, and is now circulating again given that the manga is nearing an end in maybe a year or so.
The author allegedly indicated his love of Shounen-ai and that NaruSasu was his favorite pairing. He even collects doujinshi and fanfics.
According to this source, who republished a deleted DA journal,
"Kishimoto revealed that Sasuke was based on his best friend from High School, whom he admired and loved very much, and that Naruto was a reflection of himself and the adventures he would have liked to experience when he was young. He also emphasized that in the series there is not a love triangle, but rather a circle, like a fish biting its own tail. Naruto likes Sakura, Sakura loves Sasuke and Sasuke has special feelings for Naruto.However, he ended the note saying that Shippuden was going to be mainly about the fights and character development."
I don't know about that, but the issue at hand is that Naruto runs in Shonen Jump magazine, and it would be a tremendous editorial move to give the manga a shounen-ai ending. I'm not going to say it is completely unlikely, unless all of this has been exaggerated and maybe he was referring that the manga finale will have that subtext.
Other concern is the NaruHina, which has had very little development, with Hinata pining all these years for Naruto and him being ambiguous about it.
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SuBLime yaoi publisher to launch two new yaoi mangas in summer 2012
12:11 PM
Toki Nakamura
The two new series are:
Bond of Dreams, Bond of Love by Yaya Sakuragi.
From the same author of Himegoto Asobi, the premise is around a High school student called Ao, who has been dreaming about his longtime neighbor Ryomei, a priest at the local Shinto shrine. A little freaked out, but excited, at the prospect of having a relationship with Ryomei, Ao gathers up his courage, confesses his feelings...and gets turned down flat.
Luckily, Ao's not the kind to give up easily. Thanks to some creative persistence (and Ryomei's weakening resolve), he finally gets a kiss. But one single kiss won't satisfy him for long!
Starting with a Kiss by Youka Nitta.
Described as a sultry tropical love gansgter story, Tohru, the son of a yakuza boss, is sent into exile on a deserted island for his own protection during a gang feud. Fiery and impetuous, he isn't thrilled to be sidelined when he'd rather be in the fight, and is even less thrilled that Mutsumi, son of the gang's second in command, is going with him. The serious, studious Mutsumi is Tohru’s opposite in every way, and it doesn't take long before the sparks between them begin to fly!
Bond of Dreams, Bond of Love by Yaya Sakuragi.
From the same author of Himegoto Asobi, the premise is around a High school student called Ao, who has been dreaming about his longtime neighbor Ryomei, a priest at the local Shinto shrine. A little freaked out, but excited, at the prospect of having a relationship with Ryomei, Ao gathers up his courage, confesses his feelings...and gets turned down flat.
Luckily, Ao's not the kind to give up easily. Thanks to some creative persistence (and Ryomei's weakening resolve), he finally gets a kiss. But one single kiss won't satisfy him for long!
Starting with a Kiss by Youka Nitta.
Described as a sultry tropical love gansgter story, Tohru, the son of a yakuza boss, is sent into exile on a deserted island for his own protection during a gang feud. Fiery and impetuous, he isn't thrilled to be sidelined when he'd rather be in the fight, and is even less thrilled that Mutsumi, son of the gang's second in command, is going with him. The serious, studious Mutsumi is Tohru’s opposite in every way, and it doesn't take long before the sparks between them begin to fly!
Senran Kagura first promo streamed
11:43 AM
Toki Nakamura
This anime directed by Takashi Watanabe and set to premiere in 2013 is based on the side-scrolling action game by MarvelousAQL. The story revolves around female ninjas.
Source: ANN
Source: ANN
New One Piece Special Nami episode preview, premieres on August 25
11:36 AM
Toki Nakamura
Fuji TV aired a new commercial for the One Piece Special Nami Episode, titled Kōkaishi no Namida to Nakama no Kizuna (One Piece Episode of Nami: Tears of a Navigator and the Bonds of Friends) anime special on August 25 at 9pm, Japan time.
Source: ANN, Saiyan Island
Source: ANN, Saiyan Island
Rurouni Kenshin live action 3rd preview, premieres on August 25
11:21 AM
Toki Nakamura
The Japanese television show Hiru Nan Desu! ranked the live-action adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin manga at #4 in its list of movie picks on Friday.
The preview features 23-year-old actor Takeru Satoh (Kamen Rider Den-O, Rookies, Beck, Ryōmaden) as the titular swordsman in a sword fight with Hajime Saitō (Shonan Bakusozoku and Tokyo Love Story's Yosuke Eguchi). 18-year-old actress Emi Takei also appears as the heroine Kaoru Kamiya.
Source: ANN
The preview features 23-year-old actor Takeru Satoh (Kamen Rider Den-O, Rookies, Beck, Ryōmaden) as the titular swordsman in a sword fight with Hajime Saitō (Shonan Bakusozoku and Tokyo Love Story's Yosuke Eguchi). 18-year-old actress Emi Takei also appears as the heroine Kaoru Kamiya.
Source: ANN
Boys Be Adult Season manga is out
11:16 AM
Toki Nakamura
Creators Masahiro Itabashi and Hiroyuki Tamakoshi launched their new Boys Be manga series in this year's 17th issue of Kodansha's Evening magazine on Saturday. Even though the magazine is biweekly, the manga will run quarterly. The manga is an omnibus of short "sweet-and-sour love stories for adults."
Itabashi and Tamakoshi serialized their first Boys Be series in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in the 1990s, followed by Boys Be 2nd Season and Boys Be L Co-op. They then started their Boys Be Next Season series in a different magazine, Kodansha's Magazine Special, in 2009, and they ended that series this past February.
It's most likely that TokyoPop will license this, since they brought the original series.
Itabashi and Tamakoshi serialized their first Boys Be series in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in the 1990s, followed by Boys Be 2nd Season and Boys Be L Co-op. They then started their Boys Be Next Season series in a different magazine, Kodansha's Magazine Special, in 2009, and they ended that series this past February.
It's most likely that TokyoPop will license this, since they brought the original series.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Store: The Sailor Moon manga revival in the US
11:37 AM
Toki Nakamura
It is to no surprise that the manga is also in the top 10 sales in Amazon's books. This is an interesting phenomena that needs to be analyzed, considering that this manga is from 1991, and it gained cult status in the 90's thanks to the anime. Now there's this revival that almost beat American comic books and novels locally, that says a lot!
There is a total of 18 volumes, for now these 10 volumes are available in the US with great translation quality.
There is a total of 18 volumes, for now these 10 volumes are available in the US with great translation quality.











































