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September 23, 2005
Manga Phone
Photo credits: A scene from the popular cartoon strip "Oishinbo" is shown on a cell phone display. (c) Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki / Shokagukan, Inc, Taiga Uranaka Photo, Japan Times, September 22, 2005
Cell phone sites for cartoon strips are booming, as is demand for popular titles. But at the same time, some famous "manga" artists are bypassing publishing houses to offer their works to "keitai" (cell phone) sites directly.
Toppan Printing Co. in April 2003 became one of the first firms to offer cartoon strips via cell phones. It currently offers 55 titles, including Reiji Matsumoto's "Ginga Tetsudo 999" ("Galaxy Railway 999") in collaboration with major publishers.
The cartoons, which are converted to digital form from their original paper edition, cost 30 yen to 100 yen per episode. Company officials said they plan to add 100 more titles by the end of March.
Source: Taiga Uranaka, Manga publishers see cell phones as the future, Japan Times, Thursday, September 22, 2005, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20050922a2.htm
Posted by sjc at September 23, 2005 9:41 AM
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