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Wednesday, December 22, 2004


Although Viz just made the announcement about Shonen Jump Advanced yesterday, several readers have pointed out that Viz already started releasing the Ultimate Muscle graphic novels have been released as "Shonen Jump Advanced" titles since this summer. Eyeshield 21, Hunter X Hunter, and I"s therefore will not be the first Shonen Jump Advanced titles
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TV Asahi has opened an official Website for the upcoming Xenosaga TV series. At this time there's no content on the website, just an image placeholder. Toei's official website for Xenosaga: The Animation has more information and images. http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/xenosaga/.
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Barasui's Ichigo Mashimaro manga series is to be adapted into a TV series for broadcast in Japan next year
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Variety reports that Howl's Moving Castle has earned $90 million (9.4 billion yen) since its release.Kotaro Tsuchida, Toho distribution general manager, expects Howl to "at least reach the same box office cume as Spirited Away."


This Week Last Week Title Country Week#
1 1 Howl's Moving Castle Japan 5
2 2 The Incredibles USA 3
3 N/A The Terminal USA 1
4 N/A Alien Vs. Predator USA 1
5 3 Windstruck Korea 2
6 5 Godzilla Final Wars Japan 3
7 N/A Man On Fire USA 1
8 4 Ima Aini Yukimasu Japan 8
9 6 The Polar Express USA 4
10 N/A Ultraman Japan 1
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The Disney Video website has trailers, with voice snippits from the English dubs, online for Nausicaa, Porco Rosso and The Cat Return
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Tokyopop's website has been updated with two new manhwa today; Arcana by So-Young Lee and Blazin' Barrels by Min-suh Park; along with Van Von Hunter by Pseudomé Studio, a North American group Manhwa (만화) is the Korean equivalent to Manga.

In fact the Japanese and Korean terms, manga (漫画) and manhwa, are both descended from the identical Chinese words, man hua (漫画 - simplified, 漫畫 - traditional), which are also used to describe comics (of any origin) in Chinese.

In North America, manwa is generally being used to refer to Korean comics such as My Sassy Girl and Island (released by ComicsOne and Tokyopop respectively).

Manhwa is sometimes spelled "manwha" or "manwa."

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