43 year old Lee Chi Ching from Hong Kong was won Japan's first International Manga Award - which manga enthusiast and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called a "Nobel Prize" for manga when he announced the competition last year.

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Well, this one takes today's award for oddest news. Apparently Tokyopop and Kaplan have published a Warcraft-themed manga that features more than 300 words that frequently show up on the SATs and ACTs. I applaud the effort to help kids get their edumacation, but I think they missed the mark on this one.

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GamePro has posted the entire cinematic of opening of the upcoming Transformers game. It's great. Go watch it. Seriously.

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ViZ Media and Cartoon Network have teamed up to bring super-popular football (real football, not soccer) series Eyshield 21 to the US of A. The best of this news? It's also going to be featured on NFLRush.com, the NFL's kid-centric web presence. That's right; the NFL is getting into anime folks. It's a brave new world.

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The folks at IGN were able to set up a question and answer session with two of the folks on the Mange Fighter team: Phil Kim, the Director of the development team, and Kevin Sugimoto, the Project Manager. I still don't see anything that makes this title worthy of having the word manga in it, but it looks like a decent game nonetheless.

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There's a brand new Vampire Hunter D manga coming out in November, and the publisher just created the web site for it.

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Apparently, Marvelous Entertainment's 2006-2007 financial report reveals that a sequel is in the works for its hit series Gunslinger Girl.

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Bandai Visual has announced that the OVA Freedom will be the first anime to come to the US in a hi-definition format. It's also being released in the United States first, then in Japan. Does this mark a big change in how the Japanese Anime producers treat North American audiences?

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