Tsutomu Nihei talks about being approached by Marvel comics in what led to his involvement in Snikt and playing Halo when he should be working.
Via Anime Insider: Tsutomu Nihei (April 2004)
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Fun With Numbers: Two Weeks Are Better Than One
For a couple of reasons, I’ve been going through the manga and light novels first adapted in 2010 to gauge if and how their sales changed after the anime adaptation aired. This data is currently being gathered (manga info is collected, but it needs to be turned into plots, haven’t started on LNs). Before diving into an analysis of those boosts, though, I’ve noticed a very important point that pertains some specific earlier posts of mine. Namely, first week manga sales, while rarely smaller than second week sales as is common with light novels, aren’t all that consistent.
Via Anime Insider: Kazuo Koike (December 2003)
A very, very short Kazuo Koike interview (made more so by the fact that the interview is only half the sidebar).
Via Anime Insider: Del Rey Manga (October 2003)
A minor revelation from this short article about Random House’s Del Rey imprint; apparently the reason they were so quick to partner with Kodansha was that they had just finished researching how to put out a line of graphic novels for a separate project which ended up being too expensive. That’s a pretty big what-if for me; Genshiken (via a discount bookstore) was one of my big formative manga in high school, and it’s pretty heavily influenced my philosophy on fandom.
Via Anime Insider: Hitoshi Tomizawa (August 2003)
Short, short interview with Alien 9’s Hitoshi Tomizawa, here mostly because he talks about his work habits.
Via Anime Insider: Reader Mail (June 2003)
Not a huge fan of this section personally, but this one has two bits of info, albeit ones probably corroborated elsewhere. One, it specifies the type of paper mangaka generally use, and two, it verifies that Yoshiyuki Tomino was responsible for the exclusion of The Island of Kukuras Doan from Gundam’s original US run.
Via Anime Insider: Numerical Tidbits (April 2003)
Two separate bits of info that come in small blurbs – one gives the sales total for the first issue of US Shonen Jump as about 250,000 copies (a factor of 10 less than its Japanese parent), and the other gives the contemporary box office records of the best-performing anime movies released in the US.
Via Anime Insider: Ken Akamatsu (Winter 2003)
Ken Akamatsu talks about his favorite parts of the Love Hina manga and his limited role in the anime adaptation. His answer as to why he wasn’t able to get involved with the adaptation (that weekly manga made him too busy) is an interesting contrast with DN Angel’s Yukiru Sugisaki, who published monthly and was heavily involved in the adaptation.
Via Anime Insider: Masamune Shirow (Fall 2002)
Prior to the release of the Ghost in the Shell 2 manga, Masamune Shirow talks about some plot details, the ten year gap between 1 and 2, and liking Wallace and Gromit.
Via Anime Insider: Kia Asamiya (Summer 2002)
Anime Insider/Invasion (had different titles at different points during its run) was a magazine published by Wizards of the Coast during the big boom in the US, from about 2001 to 2009. I recently acquired close to the entire ~60-issue run at a swap meet. While the majority of the material is either thinly veiled promotion or puerile stuff reminding me why I’ve withdrawn somewhat from the US community, there’s typically at least one pure article/interview per issue. I’ll be posting them here as I see fit, including ads that come in pages in between the articles (mainly as a way of verifying that I’m not accidentally skipping pages).
This article interviews Kia Asamiya, the author of Steam Detectives and Silent Mobius, who had a particularly interesting career that took her to the US and saw her working on the Star Wars Episode 1 manga.
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