Kodansha’s upcoming anthology magazine ITAN
Kodansha’s seasonal anthology manga magazine ITAN will be launching vol. 0 on the 25th of March and it has been trying to become a new magazine concept which will be something that has never been done before.
The concept of the magazine is that it aims to be the magazine which will provide whatever the author feels is the best story he can think of, without any restrictions on genre.
The magazine’s policy is to not stick to conventional methods in running the magazine, and they’ve been doing stuff such as deciding the name of the magazine via a web poll and having the front cover and back cover of the magazine done via a pixiv contest.
They’re also hoping to spin off web manga from works that are on the magazine, and hopefully ultimately become a magazine where the actual magazine and the web will complement each other.
Via: ITmedia
Kodansha seems to be experimenting a bit recently with their love plus stuff and this magazine. Hopefully something cool comes out of all this and pull them back from their losses in recent years.
March 11th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Sounds nice.
March 11th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
sounds cool but dunno how it would be successful. i guess they are trying to integrate print with online content and make the print product more relevant.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
One of the upsides when an industry sort of plateaus or flounders like television and publishing have done in recent years is bursts of creativity (in between running the same shit into the ground). It sounds like it could be a great spot for some more offbeat stuff to get major recognition, ideally.
March 13th, 2010 at 6:06 am
You know what, there are a couple of comics I’d like to see on that magazine, if copyright issues are not too big of a concern:
*Castko
*Chibi Miku-san
*The Nanoha Nanos
March 18th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
XD good good news from Kodansha!! consumers and artists need new platforms to enjoy and draw manga. I’m so happy.
Hope to get nome samples somhow someday!!