Manga News: Read the Newspaper - Manga Style!

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I know this is a late news to most of you, but it just occurred to me to announce it now. Sorry. This should have been announced last month.

Anyways, KaBa Net - an internet service company - recently started a service which provides its readers with daily news in the form of a manga last month. It's one of the first companies to take such a huge journey to the manga world. KaBa Net told the Shinagawa Keizai Shimbun paper that they aim to distribute their news manga in English, French, and Korean in about half a year.

Many other companies, schools, and product advertisements are going manga-style. Who knows, we may actually start seeing teachers giving manga-styled homework - now that would be awesome! Haha [read more]

The Japanese company Trend-Pro launched Nihon IT Manga Shimbun ("Japanese IT Manga Newspaper"), a website that reports on information technology (IT) news via manga, on November 12.

The site covers new trends and product releases in net services and related fields in computer technology. The website devotes an average of two manga pages to each news item. Trend-Pro intends to launch a Nihon Keizai Manga Shimbun spinoff for economic news and a Nihon Seiji Manga Shimbun for politics.

Source: ITmedia News (http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0911/16/news065.html), J-Cast News (http://www.j-cast.com/2009/11/17054129.html)

[aUsCkEs]

Well, yeah. If you consider that manga is EVERYWHERE in Japan (maybe not literally, but still...), this might just be the best marketing.

[StaticXD]

I think it would be of benefit to America as well.
To the teenagers and students...am I right?

People would have a better reason to read newspapers if they did it for other countries.

[aUsCkEs]

I think it would be of benefit to America as well.
To the teenagers and students...am I right?

People would have a better reason to read newspapers if they did it for other countries.

It overall concept is good, because it really may catch the attention of the readers, but manga is not even close to be known in America as it is in Japan or even countries, so I think it'd be more like a gamble.

[HellLord2000]

Yes but i think with the new generation that is coming up (us) they will do a greath job i'd love to get my news in manga stile XD

[lifedeff]

sigh~ manga is not very popular at malaysia

[HellLord2000]

lol not even here in Italy or Romania,but some of this generation now abouth anime and manga ^^

[StaticXD]

Shit! I forgot to upload yesterday....
And we had less than 20 updates. How embarrassing!!!!

I'm too busy to upload this week. But I'll try to get things in maybe tomorrow.
Probably today...I'll see what I can do...10 hours from now...

[Coram]

In the past few weeks, I have seen manga how to books at the local Barnes and Noble...Manga Guide to Servers, i think was one of them, but there were at least half a dozen of them on a rack in the manga section. i was getting disgusted by the Idiot's Guides, so I'm happy to see something new and less insulting.

[Azula]

I think this is retarded.
Why do they need to go manga style just to read news?
Why don't they just let people have a chance to bring a certain idea story and get people to rate which to be the next manga on the shounen jump.

I mean, who ever is drawing manga for these newspapers are just too much of wasted talent.
They'll get tired of it if they have limited people do this.

I wonder what process they use.

[Shin]

neah. you didn't forget. the first topic is -> here (http://forums.mangahut.com/showthread.php?t=2058) :)

[StaticXD]

neah. you didn't forget. the first topic is -> here (http://forums.mangahut.com/showthread.php?t=2058) :)thanks.
I completely forgot about that.