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POLL: US/EU manga/manhwa/webtoon fans - what's #1 on your wish list to publishers?

This week feels like a great one for some ANNOUNCEMENTS!!! Check back tomorrow at 12:00pm ET/9:00am PT to see what new manga and light novels are coming soon!

The best Elf/Dwarf pairing since Legolas and Gimli! The Elf Husband and Dwarf Wife by Yoshika Komatsu, coming exclusively to Omoi this Sunday, March 22 Add to your list to get notified when Chapter 1 launches: omoi.com/series/the-elf…

Well, it’s official. The book is dead. nytimes.com/2026/03/19/boo…

という事で遅くなりましたが本日のイベントは先ほど終了いたしました、ご参加くださいましたみなさま誠にありがとうございます！桃桃子先生、C.B.セブルスキーさま、玄光社さま、開催ご協力ありがとうございました！

We're all for trying to make things accessible, but we support artists first and foremost! #MangaPlaza #manga

Showcasing characters from some of the biggest manga titles ever created like AKIRA, Ghost In The Shell, Initial D & Attack On Titan, 'Light Hole' is an animated paper mache branding video for Japanese publishing house Kodansha, directed by Toru Katori.

“Shelving at a manga specialty bookstore is like playing Tetris” Man! 800 new manga titles come out *every month* in japan. 🙀

実際、漫画専門書店の棚作りはもはやテトリス感覚に近い。 ​毎月約800点の新刊を迎え入れるため、1ミリの隙間を見つけては既刊をねじ込む。そうやって捻り出した数センチが、誰かにとっての「一生の一冊」との出会いになれば嬉しい。 ​効率を考えたら負け。この過密な棚こそが私達の戦場です。

『ONE PIECE』（尾⽥栄⼀郎・著／集英社刊）の⼈気キャラクター、トニートニー・チョッパーが国境なき医師団の公認サポーターに就任しました！ 本日、東京都内で記者会見を開き、コラボレーションの内容について発表しました💊 コラボ特設サイトはこちら👇 msf.org/chopper #MSFxCHOPPER

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다나카 히로히사 선생님께서 한국분들을 대상으로 일본 출판만화피드백을 해주신다고 합니다! 일본어가 가능하시고 점프 투고를 원하시는 분들은 참고하시면 좋을 것 같습니다!

TOKYO CREATIVE SALON @ Shinjuku Curated by stylist Manabu Harada, the Shinjuku Vintage Market showcases rare vintage clothing & furniture. Featuring 4 premier shops like "GLEEFUL," it’s a must-visit for unique, high-value finds! ◆Date: Mar 18-24 tokyo-creativesalon.com/en/events/shin…

Super Comic City is a mostly fanworks-driven event, with a lot of manga, fan novels, handmade craft items, including a lot of doll clothes and accessories. I look for really quirky stuff, but there wasnt much that caught my eye this time. Here’s what i did find, tho.

I’m baaack…

【Dr.チョッパーが就任】 この度、チョッパーが 国境なき医師団(MSF)の 公認サポーターに就任しました。 就任を祝し、尾田っちが コラボイラストを描きおろし！ 今後様々な活動を通して 国境なき医師団にエールをおくります。 ▼くわしくはこちら msf.org/chopper #ONEPIECE #MSFxCHOPPER

Ahhhh. 😲

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Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him. In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world. Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters. Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out. Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

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