After more than two and a half years since the release of volume 3 in the U.S., TOKYOPOP will release Full Metal Panic! light novels volume 4 and 5 as one book on February 1, 2011. More »

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Zhou Shaomou, author of the Chinese online novel Tale of the Blue Crows, is suing the creator of the movie Avatar, James Cameron, claiming that Cameron stole ideas from Zhou’s novel. More »

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Asian CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) star Archie Kao has just confirmed that he will be playing the lead male role in Wayne Wang’s upcoming film entitled “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.” More »

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It’s nice to see Sunrise working on turning a Gundam novel into anime. Their more recent series (Gundam 00, Seed, Destiny) just didn’t feel right to me. Hopefully this encourages more Universal Century stuff (the original gundam timeline) to get animated. It feels bad missing out on a huge chunk of the story just because I can’t read the novels/manga like Crossbone Gundam and Hathaway’s Flash. More »

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Recently, I sat down to read the graphic (comic book) novel, American Born Chinese. It is about the life of a Chinese-American boy named Jin who struggles with is identity as an Asian and especially as an Asian male in America. More »

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