{"id":27425,"date":"2012-10-23T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=27425"},"modified":"2012-10-23T07:55:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T11:55:26","slug":"justins-japan-new-york-comic-con-welcomes-sakuran-creator-moyoco-anno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/23\/justins-japan-new-york-comic-con-welcomes-sakuran-creator-moyoco-anno\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: New York Comic Con Welcomes \u2018Sakuran\u2019 Creator Moyoco Anno"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Manga author Moyoco Anno with New York Comic Con attendee Joy Charbonneau of Pacifica, CA, Oct. 14, 2012. (Justin Tedaldi)<\/p><\/div>\n

By<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/strong>(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his\u00a0Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Anime and manga fandom came out in full force at New York Comic Con<\/a> last weekend, with a record 116,000 fans visiting the Jacob K. Javits Center for the annual event. Sunday (Oct. 14) hosted special guest artist Moyoco Anno<\/a> of Sugar Sugar Rune<\/em> and Sakuran<\/em><\/a> fame.<\/p>\n

A professional mangaka <\/em>(manga artist and author) and one of the most respected names in Japanese comics today for her josei<\/em> (ladies\u2019) comics, Anno was in town to promote the recently released English-language edition of Sakuran<\/em>, a starkly drawn tale of Japanese courtesans in the Edo period.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d been thinking about publishing Sakuran<\/em> for a few years now, and were finally able to convince [our] CEO to take the plunge,\u201d said Ed Chavez, marketing director of Vertical Inc.<\/a>, the book\u2019s North American publisher, which had its own booth at Comic Con. Based in New York, Vertical translates Japanese works of fiction and non-fiction that are considered good reads with universal themes from its vibrant book market.<\/p>\n

Standouts of Vertical\u2019s manga stable include Osamu Tezuka\u2019s Buddha<\/em>, Usamaru Furuya\u2019s No Longer Human<\/em> and Kanata Konami\u2019s Chi\u2019s Sweet Home<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his\u00a0Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. Anime and manga fandom came out in full force at New York Comic Con last weekend, with a record 116,000 fans visiting the Jacob K. Javits Center for the annual event. Sunday (Oct. 14) hosted special guest artist Moyoco Anno of Sugar Sugar Rune […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[75,4,40,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t