Happy Saturday! Sorry I’ve been M.I.A. recently–had to sort out some computer issues. A few good links:
MANGA
- Publisher’s Weekly has scans of After School Nightmare vol. 10.
- Yen Press picked up Yotsuba&!
- Digital Manga Publishing picked up shojo classic Itazura na Kiss.
- Plus, Viz has a nice pack of new licenses, including Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku & All My Darling Daughters, Taiyo Matsumoto’s GoGo Monster, and Natsume Ono’s Not Simple. Same Hat! has gorgeous scans of GoGo to whet your appetite.
- Pink Tentacle translated Tatsuyuki Tanaka’s beautiful, trippy short, Fifth-Dimension Treatment (excerpt below):
DRAMAS & FILM
- Lee Min Ki’s new film Oishii Man, a Japanese-Korean production, looks charming. Lee plays musician who’s developed hearing problems, and ends up falling in love with a local in Hokkaido. Official release date is February 19th.
- Two other countries have announced Hana Yori Dango drama adaptations: mainland China (though that may be a fraud) & the Philippines.
- As for the current Korean adaptation, Dramabeans uploaded & analyzed the scripts for episodes 1-4.
- Finally, someone Simpson-ized the leads:
