From: Videocrux on Fri, Nov 20 2009 5:40 AM

Japan is drawing on its lively manga industry to promote itself around the world. Over the summer, a giant robot towered over Tokyo bay, drawing millions of visitors. The city has enlisted the help of manga characters to promote its bit to host the 2016 Olympic games.

From: Videocrux on Thu, Nov 19 2009 2:46 AM

Benoit says that the ratio of the boys and the girls among the readers of Manga is 50-50. Though most of the comics are designed for men, but Manga market is really open to women.

From: Videocrux on Tue, Nov 10 2009 12:54 AM

The economic hard times are back, and so is the storyteller. It’s the stories that have changed to Manga. Rikimaru Toho, Manga story-teller, "I think people who are maybe a decade older than myself, to very young children, respond the easiest to Mangas." Historical and romance stories were origi...

From: Videocrux on Tue, Nov 10 2009 12:54 AM

Meet Rikimaru Toho. No, he’s not mad, though he did once spend a whole year locked in his bedroom luckily for us, with comics. And this is a Manga comic-reading warm-up. A ritual he does each week before hopping on his bicycle to Tokyo's super-hip Shimo Kitazawa district. Story-telling, kno...

From: Videocrux on Mon, Nov 09 2009 1:49 PM

Astro Boy is a Japanese manga series first published in 1952 and television program first broadcast in Japan in 1963. The story follows the adventures of a fictional robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters along the way. It originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, revere...