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Sequential Tart, October 30, 2009
...and Ranma 1/2 and Video Girl Ai ... and later Neon Genesis Evangelion, Dragon Ball/DBZ, Shaman King, One Piece, Kazuo Umezu, The Rose of Versailles, and too many others to name. ST: What are the challenges in adapting manga for the US market? JT: The...
Sequential Tart, October 19, 2009
...and Ranma 1/2 and Video Girl Ai ... and later Neon Genesis Evangelion, Dragon Ball/DBZ, Shaman King, One Piece, Kazuo Umezu, The Rose of Versailles, and too many others to name. ST: What are the challenges in adapting manga for the US market? JT: The...
Inside Bay Area, May 29, 2009
...history of Tulsa, Okla. Not a weak one in the entire bunch. A- 'Cat-Eyed Boy: Volume One,' by Kazuo Umezu (Viz Media, $24.99, 532 pages). Japan's manga horrormeister justly received an Eisner nomination for these bloody good tales featuring a 'Cat-Eyed...
National Post, May 7, 2009
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Comic Book Bin, April 11, 2009
...& WHITE, by acclaimed creator Taiyo Matsumoto. The nominated titles from VIZ Media are: CAT EYED BOY, by Kazuo Umezu ? Best U.S. Edition of International Material?Japan COWA!, by Akira Toriyama ? Best Publication for Kids NAOKI URASAWA?S MONSTER,...
PublishersWeekly.com, November 26, 2008
...Candice Uyloan, senior product marketing manager for manga publisher Viz Media. 'One of Japan's top horror manga-ka, Kazuo Umezu, the creator behind Viz Media's The Drifting Classroom and Cat Eyed Boy, has been creating horror manga since the '60s, and...
Limitless Cinema, June 7, 2009
...FILMS/TV SERIES ARE ADAPTED FROM COMIC BOOKS. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE? 1.AMBROSIA (2005, Tadafumi Ito, from Kazuo Umezu) 2.ANTIQUE (2008, Min Kyu-dong, from Fumi Yoshinaga) 3.BUG'S HOUSE (2005, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, from Kazuo Umezu) 4.CONSTANTINE (2005,...
HEROESONLINE, April 29, 2009
...as they try to make a go of it in this post-apocalyptic world. For sheer terror though, try Kazuo Umezu's classic manga THE DRIFTING CLASSROOM . It's about a school in Japan that disappears in an earthquake and reappears in a desert wasteland leaving...
About.com Manga, April 9, 2009
...Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn & Quarterly) - Best Archival Collection / Project - Comic Books Cat Eyed Boy by Kazuo Umezu (VIZ Signature) - Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan Dororo by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical) - Best U.S. Edition of...
GeniusboyFiremelon, February 14, 2009
...but without the revolutionary Neal Adams artwork. I've had the first five volumes of "Drifting Classroom" by Kazuo Umezu sitting on my shelf for months, and I finally had a chance to read the first two books. Tucker Stone has mentioned the series a few...




















