Our this August will meet with the Urawa Gakuin Manga Club. Urawa is an elite high school in Tokyo known for its baseball, but its manga club is also second in Japan in national art competition. We’re really aiming to tie American manga artists to every level of the Japanese manga scene, from up-and-coming [...]

I’ve had some questions about the manga printing, and we’re finally able to answer them, so if you’re interested in printing your own dojinshi, have a click!

A celebration of 30 years of Leiji Matsumoto’s space epic will open May 27 at the Suginami Animation Museum.

The first glimpse at what the “Dragon Ball” Hollywood adaptation might look like is in this week’s Shonen Jump, the original publisher of the classic manga by Akira Toriyama.

Our friend Jamie at Japan L.A. let us know that the J-pop band Love Psychedelico will be in Los Angeles this Wednesday to play a show at Bordello near Little Tokyo. Admission is free with an RSVP, plus free Asahi from 9 to 10 p.m.

We’re getting together with Dream Shoppe this Friday at 8:30 p.m. at Anime Jungle No. 2 in Little Tokyo to show off photos from our last Lolita Tour, and watch “Sakuran,” the movie about Edo-period prostitutes starring loli icon and “Kamikaze Girls” star Anna Tsuchiya.

The Wachowskis’ film adaptation of the classic “Speed Racer,” itself an Americanization of Tatsunoko Pro’s “Mach Go Go Go,” opens in American theaters this Friday. (And if you need even more Speed, the original manga by Tatsuo Yoshida is now on sale from Akadot affiliate Digital Manga.)

Storyboards from “Howl’s Moving Castle” drawn by Mamoru Hosoda (“The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”), the original director of the project who was later replaced by Hayao Miyazaki, have turned up online at GhibliWorld.

Check out our three new photo galleries chock full of memories from this month’s groundbreaking yaoi and gothic & lolita tours!