Tona-Gura! Romantic comedy manga ends at Japan

The 13th and final volume of Hidetaka Kakei Tona-Gura! manga romantic comedy sent in Japan on Thursday. The manga ran in Comic Rush of Jive magazine, which went from print to digital format in March. The manga had been running in Comic Rush since January 2004, and continued in the form of the magazine until August 2011 "question".

The history of Tona-Gura! revolves around Kazuki and Yuuji, two childhood friends and neighbors. Yuuji back in his home after 10 years, and Kazuki, who has had a crush on him all this time, has its representation of Yuuji shattered the reunification the two.

Strings library Comic Toranoana, Comic Zin, K-libros and Mangaoh are each offer different special card and illustrations of paper to commemorate the liberation.

The manga was adapted into a thirteen episode anime television series by the Studio of anime Daume and director Tatsuya Abe (dogs: massacre & bullets) in 2006.

Source: Natalie Comic
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Kyoto Seika University offers 1 Manga Ph.d. Japan

Kyoto Seika University announced on Tuesday that will offer first doctorate of Japan in manga studies program to new students, beginning in April of next year. Kyoto University has a history of 40 years of academic study in the manga and animation. The University was the first to install a specialized area of study of the manga in 2000, and established a Faculty of Manga in 2006. He was also the first to establish a master's program in the race last year, when accepted 20 students.

The University points out that the creation of the doctoral programme is a response to the internationalization of the culture of manga, greater public support and developments in digital media and culture of global content. Personal teaching faculty includes A Terra Keiko Takemiya creator and translator of manga and cultural anthopologist Matt Thorn.

Candidates in the doctoral programme will study the theories of the manga for at least 3 years receiving this degree of doctorate of arts. After completing the course, the Kyoto Seika University expected to graduate to researchers, teachers, and manga artists. The teaching staff includes researchers from manga known internationally and active authors and publishers. With this staff, students obtain a narrow vision of perspectives of the authors in the research of manga and develop professional knowledge about the production.

Kyoto Seika University will be accepting requests for next January, hold examinations for admission in February and accept students from 4 to 12 in the programme in April 2012.

Learn more about the program is available in Japanese on the Web site of the University.
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Monochrome Factor Manga final in Japan in June

The June issue of the monthly Comic probably at the Garden Mag is announcing on Saturday that Cailey Sorano ends his manga Monochrome Factor in the upcoming June 15. The story follows a student's high school slacker called Akira Nikaido, who becomes a shin, a supernatural being to restore the balance between our world and the world of the shadow.

The manga was released in Monthly Comic Blade Masamune at the Mag Garden in 2004, but after the magazine ended in 2007, the manga moved to Monthly Comic Blade probably (now known as monthly comic probably). TOKYOPOP published the first four of the 10 current volumes of the manga in North America. The manga inspired a series of anime TV director Yuu Kou and GENCO and A.C.G.T. Studies 2008

The June issue of monthly comic probably is launching Kekko Furumachi Miyoshi Otemae na desu. manga. The July issue run the release of the manga series of Matsushi-Gura Shiroman and the end of the manga of Finland - Santa Yosei specialized - by Mei Noguchi.

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40 Japan Cartoonist Awards Honor Moto Hagio

The Japan Association of artists of manga creators announced the winners of the 40 awards from cartoonist Japan on Tuesday. Riki Kusaka help man! (pictured right), and one Kamakiri Rakuga and other works won the Grand Prize this year 500,000 yen (about US $6,000). Help man!, a story about a nursing care worker for the elderly, is run in the magazine's night of Kodansha, while one works are on display at the teatro Ikebukuro Engeijyo in Tokyo.

The Committee of judges also gave a special prize of 200,000 yen (2,500 dollars) to the Kochi Prefecture for their efforts in support of the manga. Similar to the Japan Koshien high school baseball tournaments, Kochi is home to the Koshien Manga competition in which school students trying to win prizes by drawing manga.

The President of the Chamber of advisers award went to Rieko Saibara for his manga of sectors of the life of Mainichi Kaasan (pictured left). The manga has been adapted into an anime series that has been airing since 2009. The anime is transmitted today on the distribution of media Crunchyroll website.

The Minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology prize went to modern science fiction manga and shojo manga pioneer Moto Hagio (A, A, A drunken dream ', which were once) in recognition of its working set. Fantagraphics published A drunken Dream and other stories in North America last year. VIZ Media published previously, A, A' and which were once, while the Comic Journal of Fantagraphics published his short story "hanshin" along with an interview in a matter of manga special shojo. They were eleven eventually turned into an anime film of the same name as Central Park media, distributed in North America.

The prizes will be awarded on June 10 in a ceremony at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. The Committee of judges included Anpanman creator Takashi Yanase, creator of the Yamato space battleship Captain Harlock Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Furiten-kun Masashi Ueda and creator of Lady Ann Machiko Satonaka. Yaro Abe Shinya Shokudo, Takumi Nagayasu from the legend of mother Sarah/Mibu Gishi Den, creator of the manga's four panels Aoni Yamane and Hideko Mizuno of honey & honey won last year's Awards.

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Chicago Anime Central to Yoshiki Host X Japan (updated)

The area of Chicago Anime Central anime Convention announced on its Web site Sunday that Yoshiki, drummer and pianist and composer of the Japanese band X Japan, will appear in the May 20 to 22 events in RosemontIllinois.

Yoshiki has appeared in numerous anime in United States events, including Anime Central 2010, in addition to performing concerts on tour throughout the country. Anime Central also screened a documentary about Japan X in the last year's event.

In recent weeks, Yoshiki has participated in raising funds for relief efforts to help the victims of the disaster of the great earthquake of Eastern Japan (Higashi Nihon plain) March 11, including the auction of its personalized piano "Crystal".

X Japan most notable anime contributions were the songs in the collection of video clip ²concept X and later x film. The MADHOUSE Animation Studio had adapted both manga CLAMP X productions. The surviving members of the band, Toshimitsu "toshi" Deyama and Yoshiki Hayashi, Tomoaki Ishizuka "pata" of and Hiroshi "Heath" bass - met in 2007, ten years after they first disbanded and nine years after the death of guitarist Hideto Matsumoto "Hide".

Anime Central 2011 will also feature Japanese fashion designers h.Naoto and Sixh, voice actors Colleen Clinkenbeard, Darrel Guilbeau and Cristina Vee and the band of J-Pop flow.

Update: Yoshiki will attend the event to host a panel and it will not perform.
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