Another fantastic blog. Thank you. I worked on a young-adult animated series development project last year. It is YA novel adaptation for anime. The book's Indonesian edition came with some additional illustrations and new covers, and the artwork produced by a local artist knocked my socks off. I like the idea of Indonesia adding to the mix of Asian Animation in general, along with the Philippines, Singapore, China, Malaysia and Korea to name a few. It's an exciting time for anime and manga creators across South-East Asia. Seeing some of them receive recognition from new Japanese publishing start-ups is very encouraging. I always suspected the intense gate-keeping that happens within Japanese manga publishing would lead to these types of developments.
Another fantastic blog. Thank you. I worked on a young-adult animated series development project last year. It is YA novel adaptation for anime. The book's Indonesian edition came with some additional illustrations and new covers, and the artwork produced by a local artist knocked my socks off. I like the idea of Indonesia adding to the mix of Asian Animation in general, along with the Philippines, Singapore, China, Malaysia and Korea to name a few. It's an exciting time for anime and manga creators across South-East Asia. Seeing some of them receive recognition from new Japanese publishing start-ups is very encouraging. I always suspected the intense gate-keeping that happens within Japanese manga publishing would lead to these types of developments.