The Dragon Ball Z, a manga created by Akira Toriyama, is so eminent that Steve Vai the guitar-God mentioned it in his 2001 released Alive in an Ultra World album to describe Greece’s warrior and the heroic mythology.
Basketball was not popular in Japan until the manga Slam Dunk! released in 1995, causing basketball hype throughout Japan. In a poll of over 79,000 Japanese fans for the 10th Japan Media Arts Festival, Slam Dunk! was voted the #1 manga of all time. The mangaka, Takehiko Innoue, is currently busy writing Real a manga which take wheelchair basketball as the main theme.
Takehiko Innoue is also working on a manga entitled Vagabond, depicting the life of Miyamoto Musashi as written by Eiji Yoshikawa.
Shonen Sunday, Japan’s source for great mangas throughout the history of manga, is issued every Wednesday.
Rumiko Takahashi, the mangaka who wrote the popular anime Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2, was the second Japanese biggest taxpayer. She paid 142.7 million yen (US$1.3 million) of taxes in 2004.
The third series of Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu) manga entitled “the Greatest Robot on Earth,” created by the often considered as the god of manga Ozamu Tezuka in 1951, is being transformed into a psychological thriller manga focused on suspenseful murder mysteries since 2003 by another worldwide famous mangaka, Naoki Urusawa. It received an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize.
The manga series Death Note written by Tsugumi Ohba is banned in China following students’ action writing their schoolteachers’ name on a book they called ‘the death note.’
The Bowler hat guy, a nemesis in Disney’s most recent Meet the Robinsons, is identical to a villain character in Astro Boy, whose image can be spotted on Ozamu Tezuka’s website.
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