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8 unusual facts about Manga


Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes

The first volume was released by Del Rey Manga on April 10, 2007, with the second and final volume released on July 3, 2007.

Frederik L. Schodt

His best known book is Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics, published in 1983 and reprinted several times, with an introduction by Tezuka.

IBM 5100

The Visual Novel/Manga/Anime series Steins;Gate makes numerous references as a plot device, such as when they needed it to crack some of CERN's files.

Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics

Osamu Tezuka had the privilege to have a whole chapter about his works in the encyclopaedia.

Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics is a 2004 encyclopaedia written by Paul Gravett.

Manga+

#Dursun Zaman (Time should stop) (Guest vocal: Göksel) – 4:50

Stratosphere Girl

Manga drawings are also used to enhance the plot and ambiance.

Urbis

How Manga Took Over The World explored how Manga, influenced 21st-century art culture.


Banimon

The style of the comic combines Japanese animation and Manga approach with Eastern Europe and 1920s woodcuts and colorful backgrounds/patterns.

Daifugō

The rules described here are based on rules made popular in the U.S. by Tokyopop, in volume two of the manga Fruits Basket.

Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga

Dreamland Japan is a 1996 book by Frederik L. Schodt published by Stone Bridge Press that was intended as a "sequel" to Schodt's 1983 book Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics.

El Cazador de la Bruja

A manga titled El Cazador de la Bruja by Hirose Shū started serialization in the shōnen manga magazine Champion RED on March 19, 2007.

Embryo space colonization

In Yukinobu Hoshino's 2001 Nights manga, Night 4 showcases an interstellar mission where an automated ship bearing frozen embryos is launched with the help of a comet.

Every Party

The characters in the game were designed by Japanese writer and manga artist Momoko Sakura, known for her work on Chibi Maruko-chan.

Fantasy

Anime conventions, such as Ohayocon or Anime Expo frequently feature showings of fantasy, science fantasy, and dark fantasy series and films, such as Majutsushi Orphen (fantasy), Sailor Moon (urban fantasy), Berserk (dark fantasy), and Spirited Away (fantasy).

Fūma Kotarō

He is featured in the manga series Nabari no Ou (where he appears as the shape-shifting leader of the Fūma ninja village and an ally of the protagonist), and also makes an appearance in the light novel series Mirage of Blaze (during the story arc involving the Hōjō clan), the manga series Yaiba (revived by Onimaru), the manga and anime series Samurai Deeper Kyo (as Sarutobi Sasuke's childhood friend and rival) and Karasu Tengu Kabuto.

Go! Go! Ackman

The manga has been adapted into a series of three console based platform video games for the Super Famicom.

Guiche, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

The anime/manga Rose of Versailles references Guiche as a dukedom when the "Duke de Guiche" (Duke of Guiche) plays a role in the story where the Duchess of Polignac engages both of her daughters to be married to him against their will (one of which, Rosalie Lamorlière, plays a central role in the story).

Hetappi Manga Kenkyūjo

The manga has a sequel called Hetappi Manga Kenkyūjo R (ヘタッピマンガ研究所R), which was written and illustrated by Yusuke Murata (Eyeshield 21 illustrator) from 2008 to 2010 and by Yoshihiro Togashi (author of YuYu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter) in 2011.

HoneyComing

Before the game's release, a manga adaptation drawn by Ui Takano was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq magazine between the February 2007 and October 2008 issues.

Hyper Police

: Tommy caries a rather nondescript gun in the manga, but carries a German Walther P38 in the anime.

Import scene

With this spawned several arcade games, which utilizes cars from both the manga, plus other cars associated with touge racing.

Kagami

Kagami Yoshimizu, the creator and author of the Anime and Manga series, Lucky Star, even sharing the same first name as Kagami Hiiragi, one of the main characters of Lucky Star.

Keiichi Morisato

In the manga, he can play acoustic guitar, and is a fan of singer Matthew Sweet, possibly due to his quirky upbringing (in the original Japanese, it’s The Carpenters).

Kilico

Kilico is a manga series written and illustrated by Kiba Koichi, published in Kodansha's Morning magazine.

Kinniku

Kinnikuman, manga created by Yoshinori Nakai and Takashi Shimada

Ksitigarbha

The anime series Hell Girl is also loosely based on the legend of Jizō and the zanpakuto of Mayuri Kurotsuchi from the manga series Bleach is Ashisogi Jizo (leg-cutting Jizō).

Live action

Adaptations from comics include live-action film versions of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and X-Men, DC Comics' Superman and Batman, or manga such as Death Note, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka.

Mag Garden

Among the manga artists who moved to Mag Garden were Kozue Amano, Rin Asano, Mayumi Azuma, Nanae Chrono, Moyamu Fujino, Maki Hakoda, Sakura Kinoshita, Satomi Kubo, Hiro Matsuba, Minene Sakurano, Kazusa Saitou, Kaili Sorano, Seiuchirou Todono, Sirou Tunasima, and Natsuki Yoshimura.

Maid Maiden

Maid Maiden is romantic comic series by Malaysian manga artist Kaoru, who previously worked on Helios Eclipse.

Manga Entertainment

They were given exclusive sub-license rights to Manga UK's catalogue, including Part 4 of Macross Plus, which was released in 1997.

Masashi Kudō

He is working on the adaptation of the Bleach manga into anime, along with the series' creator, Tite Kubo.

Mizuki Sano

Mizuki Ashiya and Izumi Sano, the two main characters in the manga Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, are named after him.

Moldiver

The OVA was later followed by a Moldiver manga by Shinpei Itou (the writer of Hyper Doll), which ran in "Shōnen Captain".

Mount Myōgi

Mount Myōgi is mentioned in the street racing manga, video game, and anime series Initial D.

Nana 2

Nana 2 is the sequel to the Japanese movie Nana, an adaptation of the manga by Ai Yazawa, directed by Kentarô Ôtani.

One Piece Film: Strong World

The promotions surrounding Strong World boosted the sales of the One Piece manga during the week of December 7 through 13, causing all 56 then published volumes to be listed in Oricon's Top 200 chart of weekly Japanese manga sales.

One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta

The film is the eighth feature based on the One Piece media franchise, adapting a story arc from the original manga by Eiichiro Oda, wherein the Straw Hat Pirates led by Monkey D. Luffy travel to the Kingdom of Alabasta to save the war- and drought-plagued country from Sir Crocodile and his secret criminal organization Baroque Works.

Rei Ayanami

Rei appears in many spin-offs and other media related to Neon Genesis Evangelion including video games such as Evangelion 64 and the popular cross-over franchise Super Robot Wars and the various manga adaptations, such as Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's manga adaptation of the anime.

Rosier

One of the main characters of Kaori Yuki's manga Angel Sanctuary is called Rosiel (also spelled Rociel, ロシエル in the original), and is named after the fallen angel (as stated by the author in a side note to volume 1).

Samurai Shodown V

In spite of this, SNK managed to raise excitement by announcing that Nobuhiro Watsuki, the creator and author of the Rurouni Kenshin manga and anime series, was hired to design some of the new characters, and they were gradually revealed by way of silhouettes on the official website, and slowly showing the official artwork.

Sary Shagan

The site is mentioned in the manga 'Battle Angel Alita' in reference to a supposedly historical weapon, a 'scalar field' device called the 'Sarishagan tiger'.

Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance

A manga adaptation illustrated by Hyōju Issei serialization in the September 2012 issue of Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive.

Sekihōtai

In the manga and anime Rurouni Kenshin, Sagara Sanosuke was once a member of the first unit, and repeatedly refers to Sagara Sōzō, who is a character in the series.

Semic Interprint

In 1999 the company introduced the first manga published in Hungary, namely Dragon Ball, Video Girl Ai and Sailor Moon.

Shanghai Institute of Visual Art

Guest lecturers and professors include Asia's most renowned actor Jackie Chan, “Michelangelo of Modern Times” fresco artist Rainer Maria Latzke, Beowulf and Spider-Man movie animator Sing-Chong Foo, Japanese manga master Makoto Ogino, the creator of the “Peacock King”, and renowned painters Carlos Morell Orlandis and Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman.

Shigeru Sugiura

Sugiura closely followed popular culture and thus his manga were also influenced by such contemporary fads as Godzilla, pro wrestling, and American science fiction films.

Star Ocean

There was an incomplete manga series by Mayumi Azuma based on Star Ocean: The Second Story, which became a similarly incomplete anime series Star Ocean EX.

Susumu Matsushita

Susumu Matsushita (松下進 Matsushita Susumu, born February 6, 1950 in Fussa, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist known for his unique American comic–influenced design.

The Ring Volume 0: Birthday

The Ring Volume 0: Birthday is the 5th installment of The Ring manga series, based on the Japanese film of the same name.

The Terrible Dogfish

In the anime manga series MÄR, Pinocchio's Guardian ARM Fastico Galleon is a giant whale-like creature based on Monstro from the Disney movie.

Urushibara

Yuki Urushibara (漆原 友紀), born 23 January 1974, a Japanese manga artist

Weekly Shōnen Champion

It has had numerous popular series by manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shinji Mizushima, and Keisuke Itagaki.

Willow Johnson

She is best known to many Rumiko Takahashi fans as the voices of Kasumi Tendo from the Ranma ½ series and Kikyo from the InuYasha series, both of who are from Takahashi's manga.

Yu Yu Hakusho: Spirit Detective

Yu Yu Hakusho: Spirit Detective is based on the manga and anime series YuYu Hakusho by author Yoshihiro Togashi.

Yuki-onna

In the Bleach anime, a Zanpakuto spirit named Sode no Shirayuki (the sword is owned by Rukia Kuchiki) is depicted as a Yuki Onna with near total mastery of ice.

Yumi Tamura

In addition to manga, she has published four novels with illustrations by herself, as well as doing character designs for Square's Super Famicom RPG Live A Lives Science Fiction chapter, "Mechanical Heart."


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