{"id":1036,"date":"2011-06-26T19:16:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T02:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mangavillage.co.uk\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2012-06-10T03:26:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T10:26:33","slug":"pr-new-indie-manga-magazine-gen-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/2011\/06\/26\/pr-new-indie-manga-magazine-gen-is-released\/","title":{"rendered":"PR: New Indie Manga Magazine GEN is Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s a new manga magazine for both your computer and at your local bookstore, and it’s not filled with your typical emo ninja\/sword shielding kids! Taking the next logical step in demographics, GEN is for older readers. So if you enjoy indie comics or the many of the manga offerings of Dark Horse, give this magazine at try. More details and ever a special offer after the break.<\/p>\n

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GEN Manga Entertainment, Inc.\u00a0Announces the Release of\u00a0GEN<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

GEN <\/em>will be available nationwide\u00a0June, 2011<\/h3>\n

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\"\"<\/a>NEW YORK<\/strong>, NY<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0GEN Manga Entertainment, Inc.\u00a0announces the upcoming release of\u00a0GEN.\u00a0\u00a0GEN 1 <\/em>(ISBN:\u00a0978-0-9836134-0-4, Trade Paper,\u00a0136\u00a0pages, black and white,\u00a0$9.95<\/span>, Category:\u00a0Graphic Fiction)\u00a0will be available where fine books are sold\u00a0June, 2011.<\/p>\n

GEN 1 is presently available in digital format for FREE on the official website (www.genmanga.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Indie manga from the Tokyo Underground<\/strong> released in North America,\u00a0GEN<\/em>, marks a shift in manga publishing strategy. This original work of graphic fiction boldly challenges the industry while breaking new ground. It presents what manga readers are hungry for, the release of fresh underground work from Japan.\u00a0GEN <\/em>marks the release of a new serial publication that will continue to introduce a variety of new underground stories to readers as it progresses.<\/p>\n

GEN\u00a0stories\u00a0are published no where else in the world. They come straight from the artists in Japan to\u00a0readers in America.\u00a0GEN presents this rough yet vibrant work as \u201cseinen\u201d the next step up from \u201cshonen\u201d for the maturing manga reader.<\/p>\n

Four hard-lined, unpolished stories are presented in the first of GEN.\u00a0Wolf<\/em> is the emotional story of a young man that heads to the city to avenge his childhood abandonment.\u00a0VS Aliens<\/em> is the story of an average student duped (or not?) into going on a wild alien chase. A mysterious masked stranger in\u00a0KAMEN<\/em> holds secrets to hidden powers to protect innocents from massacre. And a young woman explores her psyche in the metaphysical journey of\u00a0Souls<\/em>.<\/p>\n

GEN puts on no airs about how grand their authors are. In fact, they readily admit that their authors are underground. GEN is manga the way it should be without the flash, for the fans, raw and fresh.<\/p>\n

Presenting new indie manga circles from\u00a0Japan,\u00a0GEN<\/em>, a monthly publication, <\/em>will be released in the US in\u00a0June.\u00a0Digital format for GEN is available on\u00a0genmanga.com<\/a>.\u00a0Based in New York,\u00a0GEN Manga Entertainment\u00a0(www.genmanga.com<\/a>) endeavors to publish\u00a0new and unseen graphic work\u00a0from Japan,\u00a0being in the unique position to bring readers work first, more original and untamed manga will be sure to come!<\/p>\n

As a Manga Village reader, click here<\/a> to get a discount on a the monthly subscription.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new manga magazine for both your computer and at your local bookstore, and it’s not filled with your typical emo ninja\/sword shielding kids! Taking the next logical step in demographics, GEN is for older readers. So if you enjoy indie comics or the many of the manga offerings of Dark Horse, give this magazine at try. More details and ever a special offer after the break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[58,59,81,101,107,117],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gen","tag-gen-manga-entertainment","tag-magazine","tag-online-manga","tag-press-release","tag-seinen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-gI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}