Barefoot Gen's Nakazawa Wants to Present Manga to Obama

Atom bomb survivor Keiji Nakazawa announced the upcoming completion of the English translation of his semi-autobiographical Barefoot Gen manga at a Thursday press conference, and he expressed his desire to present the work to U.S. President Barack Obama. The 70-year-old manga creator based his ten-volume story on his own experiences in the aftermath of the atomic bombing at Hiroshima. Since then, Nakazawa has been a proponent of nuclear non-proliferation. The press conference was held in Hiroshima, where supporters will hold an event on July 26 to mark the end of the translation project.

Last Gasp Publishing picked up the manga's English-language rights in 2004 and just published the seventh and eighth volumes last month. Last Gasp is using a new translation produced by the Project Gen group from the Japanese city of Kanazawa.

Source: Yomiuri Shimbun, 47 News

Takehiko Inoue: Vagabond Manga Will End in 1-2 Years

Acclaimed manga creator Takehiko Inoue (Slam Dunk, REAL) told the Nishi Nippon Shimbun paper that he thinks his award-winning Vagabond samurai manga will end "within one or two years." Inoue made his comments during an interview about the "Inoue Takehiko: Saigo no Manga-Ten" ("Takehiko Inoue: The Final Manga Exhibit") at the Contemporary Art Museum in the southwestern Japanese city of Kumamoto. In the interview which the newspaper published on Wednesday, Inoue cautioned that he cannot foresee everything about the ending yet, but acknowledged that the story has entered the final stages.

Inoue has been drawing the manga since 1998, and Kodansha published the 29th compiled volume in Japan in November. Viz Media will publish the same 29th volume in North America next month. Viz also publishes Inoue's Slam Dunk and REAL manga.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Japanese government gave Inoue the MEXT Art Encouragement Shinjin Prize in the Media Arts category last month. Inoue won the separate Media Arts Festival Award in the Manga category for Vagabond in 2000. The same manga earned the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2002.

Source: Techinsight Japan

Kyoukai no Rinne: Rumiko Takahashi' NEW Project

I've uploaded the serie in MV Database. Click HERE to view it. Once scanlations come out, they'll be immediately be uploaded by me or someone else....-.-

Article: Viz Launches Web Release of Rumiko Takahashi's Rin-ne


Raws aren't out yet but Chapter 1 translations are out...Here it is[Credits to cnet128 from Mangahelpers]:

Anime Wallpapers

So yeah..recently i've been into photoshop downloading lots of brushes and experimenting with them...instead of starting small things like sigs..i went for tee big ones...a wallpaper for instance. More room to add stuff XD..Well anyway i'll post my works here from now on.

D-gray man wallpaper I di(PS: TK Designs is me..-.-)....


Credits page for my scanlation group...


PS: I forgot to write [C&C] as subject....Tell me what ya think about it and any advise you'd want to give me..

Japanese Man Builds 11-Meter, 15-Ton Beetle Robot

I thought this was a very interesting news...might spark a bit of discussions.....

Here's the article:

On Wednesday(April 15th, 2009), TV Asahi's Nanikore Chin Hakkei television program profiled Hitoshi Takahashi, a 60-year-old man who built a 15-ton walking beetle robot in his garage in the eastern Japanese prefecture of Ibaraki. As its Kabutom RX-03 name implies, this robot is actually the third beetle robot that Takahashi created; at 11 meters (about 36 feet) long and 9.5 meters (31 feet) wide, it is also his largest one yet.

It took Takhashi 11 years to build the robot, which can be controlled from the cockpit within or with a radio controller. Its name comes from kabuto mushi, the Japanese name for rhinoceros beetle, although it has wheels in its undercarriage in addition to the six insectoid legs.

Source: AltJapan