{"id":6007,"date":"2003-05-06T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/06\/nao-yazawa-to-create-manga-for-americans\/"},"modified":"2003-05-06T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-06T14:51:00","slug":"nao-yazawa-to-create-manga-for-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/nao-yazawa-to-create-manga-for-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Nao Yazawa to Create Manga for Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese toy development company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plex-web.com\/english\/index_English.html\" target=\"_blank\">Plex<\/a> has officially announced plans to publish a new, full color, original shoujo manga by Nao Yazawa in America. Yazawa, the creator of Wedding Peach, will write and illustrate Nozomi, a 56 page one-shot, full color manga specifically created for American readers. Unlike traditional manga, Nozomi will be written and illustrated in Western left-to-right format with more horizontal sound effects closer to what American readers are familiar with in American comics. Nozomi will go on sale this July for $5.95, published by Fanboy Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>A special preview edition of Nozomi will be available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anime-expo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime Expo<\/a>. And Yazawa herself will be on hand to promote the manga at San Diego Comic Com and Chicago&#8217;s Anime Reactor convention later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Also in July, Viz will begin publishing an English translation of Nao Yazawa&#8217;s Wedding Peach manga. The Wedding Peach anime has also apparently been licensed for American release by an undisclosed distributor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese toy development company Plex has officially announced plans to publish a new, full color, original shoujo manga by Nao Yazawa in America. Yazawa, the creator of Wedding Peach, will write and illustrate Nozomi, a 56 page one-shot, full color manga specifically created for American readers. Unlike traditional manga, Nozomi will be written and illustrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}