Reign of Ota

Anime News Network's Anime Expo 2016 news coverage sponsored by Yen Press.

Dark Horse Comics announced at its Anime Expo panel on Friday that it has licensed the Hatsune Miku: Rin-Chan Now!, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko-Piko Middle School Students, and H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories manga. All three manga will debut in 2017.

Hatsune Miku: Rin-Chan Now! (Rin-Chan Now! in Japanese) is written by sezu and edited by OwataP, the producers behind the "Rin-chan Now!" song and video the manga is based on. Hiro Tamura draws the art.

The manga ran in Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Rex magazine, and Ichijinsha published four compiled volumes between 2013 and 2014. Ichijinsha also published the Rin-chan Now! SSs novels.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko-Piko Middle School Students (Shin Seiki Evangelion: Piko-Piko Chūgakusei Densetsu) is a gag manga spinoff of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The manga takes place at NERV middle school, which raises kids to be Evangelion pilots in order to combat mysterious giant lifeforms. The school recruits gamers from around the world.

Yūshi Kawata (Fist of the North Star: Strawberry Flavor) writes the series with art by Yukito, who worked on the Neon Genesis Evangelion: Comic Tribute, also released by Dark Horse. The manga is serialized in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine, and Kadokawa released the third compiled volume in May.

Gou Tanabe's H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories manga adapts three of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories: "The Hound," "The Temple," and "The Nameless City." Kadokawa published the volume in 2014.

Tanabe went on to publish manga based on Lovecraft's "The Color Out of Space" and "The Haunter of the Dark."

Anime News Network's Anime Expo 2016 news coverage sponsored by Yen Press.

Aniplex of America announced at its Anime Expo panel on Friday that it will dub the God Eater television anime into English. The company also announced that will host an AkibaFest event in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo neighborhood on the October 15-16 weekend.

The English dub cast for God Eater includes:

Robbie Daymond as Lenka Utsugi
Kyle Hebert as Lindow Amamiya
Crispin Freeman as Soma Schicksal
Michelle Ruff as Sakuya Tachibana
Lucien Dodge as Kota Fujiki
Cherami Leigh as Alisa Illinichina Amiella
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Tsubaki Amamiya
Patrick Seitz as Johannes von Schicksal
Spike Spencer as Paylor Sakaki
Wendee Lee as Aisha Gauche

Additionally, the company announced that Crunchyroll will stream Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood series. Aniplex of America's listing for the series also lists Netflix. Funimation's license of the series for streaming and home video had expired on March 31.

Aniplex of America also announced it will ship Owarimonogatari on Blu-ray Disc in two sets on October 25 and December 20.

Update: Aniplex of America will ship the ERASED anime series on two Blu-ray Disc sets on October 18 and January 24. Additionally, it will ship God Eater on two Blu-ray Disc sets on November 29 and January 31.

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Think you've got what it takes to draw a compelling shounen manga? Shonen Jump Rookie is holding a contest for aspiring manga artists with Kentarō Yabuki (To Love-Ru, Black Cat, Mayoi Neko Overrun!) as the judge. Although Yabuki may be most well-known for his fanservice harem comedies, any genre is acceptable; the choices listed on the application form include "battle," "fantasy," "school/sports," "romantic comedy," "comedy/gag," and "mystery/horror." Entrants can pick up to two.

Yabuki writes on the contest's webpage:

I feel sort of embarrassed about this, but I've been chosen to judge romantic comedies. Recently I've been moving on from romantic comedy manga, but there's an element to drawing romantic comedy that I think is important. That is to make the protagonist someone the audience can empathize with. No matter how attractively you draw the heroine, if readers don't like the protagonist they won't cheer on the romance. Please create the protagonist as well as the heroine with care.

And I think the possibilities for settings and characters for romantic comedies are varied. New possibilities, exciting manga, tragic manga — I look forward to whatever manga I'll get!

There is no page limit, but keeping it under 60 pages is suggested. Artists may also choose whether to draw their manga horizontally or vertically. Works appearing in commercial magazines or websites are ineligible. Entries will begin appearing on the website around the end of July, with updates every Friday.

The contest will last until September 30; winners will be announced in November or December. Their prizes will be a trophy from Yabuki himself and publication in Shonen Jump +. They will also get prize money (500,000 yen/$4,874 for the Grand Prize, 100,000 yen/$975 for the Great Prize). A third-place winner will just get money (50,000 yen/$487).

More manga contests will also be announced later in the summer.

Shonen Jump has also held similar contests for non-Japanese comic artists.

Source: Shonen Jump Rookie via Comic Natalie