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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Manga Entertainments Creative Team
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Manga Entertainments Creative Team
Submitted by Aric on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 20:41
I recently had the chance to pose some questions to the creative staff at Manga Entertainment. Manga Entertainment is one of the largest translators of anime and manga around the world, oginally founed in London, England and currently headquarted in Los Angeles, California. They are known for translating titles like Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
1. Who founded Manga Entertainment and why?
Manga Entertainment was founded by Andy Frain for Chris Blackwell's Island Records in 1991. Our first release, Akira, was both a critical and commercial success, and led the company to license more anime for release in the Europe, Australia and, subsequently, the United States. Manga Entertainment became a hugely successful brand, consistently achieving Top 20 entries in the UK video charts
2. Why the name Manga Entertainment when your primary product is anime?
It’s a bit of a misnomer, but Manga was, at the time, synonymous with Japanese art. It was not generally known that Manga meant explicitly Book or Magazine in Japanese. That said the name is short, simple, and hard to forget.
3. For those who are still unfamiliar with anime or manga and how it differs from western comics/cartoons, how would you describe the differences to these people?
While Western cartoons/comics have started to catch up in recent years with the ideals portrayed in Eastern art, anime and Manga tend to deal with more introspective issues. They cover a wide array of stations in life from the salaryman to intergalactic hullabaloo. Regardless, they tend to heavily weigh on the big questions of life like, “why are we here?”
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Submitted by Aric on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 20:41
I recently had the chance to pose some questions to the creative staff at Manga Entertainment. Manga Entertainment is one of the largest translators of anime and manga around the world, oginally founed in London, England and currently headquarted in Los Angeles, California. They are known for translating titles like Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
1. Who founded Manga Entertainment and why?
Manga Entertainment was founded by Andy Frain for Chris Blackwell's Island Records in 1991. Our first release, Akira, was both a critical and commercial success, and led the company to license more anime for release in the Europe, Australia and, subsequently, the United States. Manga Entertainment became a hugely successful brand, consistently achieving Top 20 entries in the UK video charts
2. Why the name Manga Entertainment when your primary product is anime?
It’s a bit of a misnomer, but Manga was, at the time, synonymous with Japanese art. It was not generally known that Manga meant explicitly Book or Magazine in Japanese. That said the name is short, simple, and hard to forget.
3. For those who are still unfamiliar with anime or manga and how it differs from western comics/cartoons, how would you describe the differences to these people?
While Western cartoons/comics have started to catch up in recent years with the ideals portrayed in Eastern art, anime and Manga tend to deal with more introspective issues. They cover a wide array of stations in life from the salaryman to intergalactic hullabaloo. Regardless, they tend to heavily weigh on the big questions of life like, “why are we here?”
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