Toon in to the Anime Street Pavilion
May 15, 2008
San Francisco comic book publishing company eigoMANGA will produce the Anime Street Pavilion at the 4th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, in celebration of anime fan culture in the Bay Area.
Anime fans are invited to enjoy an exciting, daylong program that includes Japanese rock performances, live anime drawing demonstrations, and an anime “cosplay” masquerade.
For the first time, the Anime Street Pavilion also will feature exhibits from three leading anime and manga publishing companies in North America: VIZ Media, TOKYOPOP and Dark Horse Comics.
San Francisco-based VIZ Media is an anime, manga and Japanese entertainment company founded in 1986 and now owned by three of Japan’s largest creators and licensors of manga and animation: Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan Production Co., Ltd. (ShoPro Japan). This makes VIZ Media the reigning leader in publishing Japanese manga in North America, and a global licensor of Japanese animation. Through Viz Media, anime titles such as Dragonball Z, Naruto, Pokemon and Death Note have become recognizable household names in mainstream American.
TOKYOPOP is a leading giant in North American manga, focusing on streamlining Japanese manga to mainstream audiences. The company, founded by an avid anime fan in 1997 in Los Angeles, now publishes manga for 40 countries in 30 languages, with offices in the UK, Germany, Australia, China, and Japan. TOKYOPOP is also a major publisher of American-created manga.
Dark Horse Comics ranks number three among the “Big 3” comic book publishers in North America, alongside Marvel and DC Comics. For 20 years, Dark Horse Comics has remained one of the primary companies to release Japanese manga to American audiences, who have come to revere such titles as Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira as comic book classics.
Austin Osueke is the founder and CEO of eigoMANGA.
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