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Screen & Page: Save The Day With 'Big Hero 6'
Screen & Page: Save The Day With 'Big Hero 6'
Screen & Page: Save The Day With 'Big Hero 6'
Screen & Page usually looks at great anime that has made the transition to the manga page, but this week we're making another exception, this time for a North American animation that also made the jump to manga, Big Hero 6. Big Hero 6 is not an anime, and the presence of Japanese characters or an anime-derived aesthetic certainly doesn't make it an anime. But it is the highest-profile Disney animated film to get a manga adaptation, and the first to get its own promotional manga ahead of release. Plus, the title's journey from page to screen to page again --- a journey that never would have happened without the 1990s anime boom --- is fascinating.
'One-Punch Man' Anime Is A Knockout Adaptation
'One-Punch Man' Anime Is A Knockout Adaptation
'One-Punch Man' Anime Is A Knockout Adaptation
Pretty much ever since the original webcomic by ONE premiered in 2009, fans of the superhero spoof One-Punch Man have been aching for an anime adaptation. Last fall, Madhouse --- the geniuses behind Summer Wars and Death Note, among other things --- granted their wish with a 12-episode anime based on the manga by ONE & Yuusuke Murata, which the record will show we at ComicsAlliance are big fans of. Now, thanks to Viz Media and Adult Swim's Toonami block, an English dub of that anime is finally available Stateside. So how is it? Pretty damn good.
Screen & Page: Make A Contract With 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica'
Screen & Page: Make A Contract With 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica'
Screen & Page: Make A Contract With 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica'
Most anime is adapted from manga, often produced by the manga publisher to raise awareness and sell it overseas. But what about the anime shows or film that go the other way, adapted from the screen to the page? How do those works hold up, and what changes or stays the same? That’s what Screen & Page aims to explore. This week, we're talking about an anime that set the internet on fire because of all the ways that it does --- and doesn't --- break the magical girl genre: Puella Magi Madoka Magica!
'Haikyu!!' Is The Manga That May Make You Love Volleyball
'Haikyu!!' Is The Manga That May Make You Love Volleyball
'Haikyu!!' Is The Manga That May Make You Love Volleyball
Sports are at once great and hard to depict in comics. On the one hand, an artist skilled at drawing both athleticism and action (which are not always the same thing) can take a football match and turn it into something really exciting and fun to read. This applies whether you're doing a sports-centered story like Roy of the Rovers or a story with sport-as-backdrop, like the Paul Jenkins/Al Davison Hellblazer story "Football: It's A Funny Old Game." But on the other hand, an artist who's not good with those qualities can create something really stilted or just weird. So it's understandable then that sports manga --- while hugely popular in Japan --- hasn't cracked it over here. Not for lack of trying; stalwarts like The Prince of Tennis and Eyeshield 21 have been translated without any real impact. But with the success of the competitive swimming/male eye-candy anime Free, sports manga and anime are in vogue at last. And that's lucky for us, because it means Viz Media has grabbed the rights to Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga Haikyu.
If You Love 'Pokemon Go', Try These Comics Next
If You Love 'Pokemon Go', Try These Comics Next
If You Love 'Pokemon Go', Try These Comics Next
Pokémon Go is the biggest phenomenon of 2016, and everyone is getting up and going out and about in search of a Pikachu --- and likely coming home with armfuls of Drowzee and Ratatta. Niantic Labs have perfectly replicated the wishes of every child of the early 2000s and reminded us all why the world went crazy for Pokémon. If you love Pokémon Go and want to read some comics in a similar vein, we've assembled a list of five of the best comics to read while you're sat at a Pokestop waiting for your phone to buzz. Love that? Try this!
12 Facts You May Not Have Known About One Piece
12 Facts You May Not Have Known About One Piece
12 Facts You May Not Have Known About One Piece
Everyone loves comic book trivia, but with over 75 years of superhero comics behind us right now, there’s always some new obscure fact to learn. That’s why ComicsAlliance is going deep into the minutiae of your favorite names in comics in our continuing video series. You think you know comics? Well, here’s a few things you might not know! This week we're taking a look at literally the most popular comic in the world, One Piece, the long-running manga by Eiichiro Oda. With over 800 chapters collected in over 80 paperback volumes, One Piece is a world-spanning adventure featuring pirates and ships and sea monsters and magic fruit and all sorts of entertaining nonsense as stretchy boy Monkey D. Luffy endeavors to become king of the pirates. Check out this video to learn about some of the inspirations for the story and characters, the records the series has broken, and the huge number of adaptations the book has inspired in various (and sometimes surprising) media.
Screen & Page: Pokemon Go God Level In 'Arceus & The Jewel of Life'
Screen & Page: Pokemon Go God Level In 'Arceus & The Jewel of Life'
Screen & Page: Pokemon Go God Level In 'Arceus & The Jewel of Life'
In case you've been off the grid lately, Pokemon Go came out in the US and some other countries exactly one week ago today! And what a week it's been. Nintendo's stocks have shot sky-high, millions of gamers are discovering the concept of physical exercise, and CA's own Chris Sims was last seen roaming the Great Smoky Mountains armed only with a portable generator and wifi signal booster in pursuit of the legendary Ho-Oh. In honor of our new national pastime, this week we're recounting the time eternal ten-year old Ash Ketchum and his best buddy Pikachu fought God in Pokemon: Arceus & The Jewel of Life!
Screen & Page: Don't Lose Your Way With 'Kill la Kill'
Screen & Page: Don't Lose Your Way With 'Kill la Kill'
Screen & Page: Don't Lose Your Way With 'Kill la Kill'
Most anime is adapted from manga, often produced by the manga publisher to raise awareness and sell it overseas. But what about the anime shows or film that go the other way, adapted from the screen to the page? How do those works hold up, and what changes or stays the same? That’s what Screen & Page aims to explore. This week, we're talking about the weird action-comedy with even weirder sexual politics: Kill la Kill! Please note that this piece digs into issues of sexual harassment and assault.
'Hunter X Hunter' Goes On Indefinite Hiatus After Brief Return
'Hunter X Hunter' Goes On Indefinite Hiatus After Brief Return
'Hunter X Hunter' Goes On Indefinite Hiatus After Brief Return
As much as I've been loving Yoshihiro Togashi's long-running Hunter X Hunter, I'm a relatively recent fan of the book. I only got into it over the past year or so, and while I'm completely into its ridiculously shonen setup that seems to revolve entirely around children competing in fighting tournaments that also occasionally involve deathtraps, I've still got 25 more volumes of the manga to go through before I'm all caught up. For readers who have been keeping up with it all this time, though, the past few months have been pretty bittersweet. After returning in April from a hiatus that lasted two years, Hunter X Hunter is going on what Weekly Shonen Jump describes as an "indefinite hiatus."
Viz Media Launches Free Daily Digital Manga Section
Viz Media Launches Free Daily Digital Manga Section
Viz Media Launches Free Daily Digital Manga Section
Since 2012, Viz Media has fought the omnipresence of poorly translated bootleg manga by offering weekly manga chapters published simultaneously with Japan in the digital Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Now Viz has gone one step further in that cause by unveiling a new section of Weekly Shonen Jump's website with free official translations of popular and new series posted daily.

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