University of Chicago for Mari Yamazaki of Host water thermal Romae

Harper College will host the next "of Rieko Saibara Manga Showdown" ("Saibara Rieko no Taiketsu of Garyoku Jinsei") with award-winning hot springs Romae manga creator Mari Yamazaki (right photo) in the suburb of Palatine Chicago, June 26 at 2: 30 p.m. This will be the first event of the series of "manga Showdown" overseas, where Saibara (Kaasan - life/Mainichi MOM Kaasan, right photo) has live drawing "competitions" with other creators of manga. Yamazaki was born in Tokyo, he now lives in Chicago.

Romae in thermal waters of Yamazaki is a comedy about Lucius, an architect of public bath houses (baths) in ancient Rome, which tiempo-viajes to several baths of today in Japan. Through passages of manga and essay, Yamazaki explores the two cultures in the world "who wanted bathrooms most: the Japanese and the Romans!" The play won the Manga Taisho Prize (Prize for cartoons) the year passed, followed by the short Prize work of Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in the 14th. A version of the film with Hiroshi Abe and Aya Ueto will open in Japan in the year 2012. CrunchyRoll began transmission Saibara Kaasan - anime of life of the mother throughout the world in 2009.

Tickets for the event of Harper College, which will be in Japanese, cost of us $10. The Japanese Publisher Shogakukan sponsors the event in collaboration with the Japanese Chamber of Commerce & industry in Chicago.

"manga Showdown" guests have included Naoki Urasawa (children of the twentieth century, Monster) Kiminori Wakasugi (Detroit Metal City), Takashi Murakami (ga Namakemono Miteta), Nobuyuki Fukumoto (Kaiji), Hisashi Eguchi (Stop!) Hibari-Kun), Tetsuya Chiba (Ashita no Joe) and Fujiko Fujio (Doraemon).

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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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