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Wednesday, March 9. Shonen Knife with U.V. Protection and Drab. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs, 472/280 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. $10 advance, $12 at the door. Tickets available through Ticketmaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happenings Listings | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

...HUNTER X HUNTER By Yoshihiro Togashi Launching VIZ's new SHONEN JUMP ADVANCED imprint that will offer manga titles to older teens and young adults, HUNTER X HUNTER tells the fantastic adventure story of a young boy who trains to become a master monster hunter. (April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telescoping | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...contrast black and white art direction and some wincingly cornball "hardboiled" dialogue - the hallmarks of Miller's late work. Monsters of manga TOKYOPOP have plans to start a more adult-oriented imprint sometime in the near future. They have also begun soliciting gay comics creators for a series of shonen-ai books - the gay-themed soapers that traditionally appeal to girls. Pantheon will be publishing Dan Clowes' "Eightball" #22, the "Leopold and Loeb" issue, with all new material, fleshing it out to a full graphic novel. The artist known only as Rebecca, author of the porno series "Housewives at Play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Big Convention | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...surprisingly big seller for TOKYOPOP is "Gravitation" by Maki Murakami. It falls into a splinter genre of shojo called shonen-ai, translated literally as "boy-love." Though targeted at girls, shonen-ai features the romantic relationship between two males, in this case between high-schooler and aspiring musician Shuichi and a slightly older romance novelist named Eiri Yuki. Though it features a passionate kiss, "Gravitation" and other shonen-ai never get sexually explicit. The appeal for girls seems to be in looking at two pretty boys entering into an untouchable romance. Though quite popular in Japan, very little shonen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing In the Gals | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...Some predict that Shonen Jump is just a fad. "If it becomes a mass publication it will only be for a very limited time," says Samir Husni, author of the annual Guide to New Consumer Magazines. "The audience for these magazines comes in waves." The mangazine's publishers don't buy that. "Anim? has been in the U.S. for over 10 years now, and its popularity has been growing steadily," says Bauer. The circulation target: a million within three years, which would put it on a level with Business Week and Vanity Fair. Yugi's trouncing of Wolverine, it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, Up in the Sky! | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

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