ANNCast

Podcast of 1000 Questions with Jason Thompson

ANNCast 110 - Podcast of 1000 Questions with Jason Thompson

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

Jason Thompson is a man of many credits: he edited megahits like Dragon Ball Z at Viz Media, wrote the exhaustive Manga: The Complete Guide back in 2007, works on his own original comic King of RPGs, writes about manga for Otaku USA every month and, most importantly, you can read his weekly thoughts on more than a hundred different manga right here on ANN.

So we made him come in and suffer through our silly questions! Jason talks about his early days as a manga editor, what it was like working at Viz during the Shonen Jump days, his own original work and a whole lot more fun stuff! Then it's Twitter time! YAY!

You can listen to the show on our player here, direct-download the MP3 version here, or you can just use these handy links:

Click here to subscribe to our show in iTunes!	RSS feed (for other software)

Also: if you like the show (or don't like the show, I guess) be sure to write us up a review over on iTunes! It'd be a big help!

NSFW Language Warning: There is some!

ANNCast episode 110 breakdown

00:30 Jason's early days at Viz and his eventual transition into editing manga

11:30 How hectic was it during the Shonen Jump launch?

16:00 Transitioning from manga editor to book author

25:50 King of RPGs

32:20 We come not to bury Naruto

39:50 Could this be the end of Rumiko Takahashi?!

46:30 Twitter time! Horror manga, Viz's modern business practices and more!

And that's it! See you next week!

Have questions for the ANNCast crew? Tweet 'em to @ANNZac! Or check out the community forums thread about the show, or send email questions to zac@animenewsnetwork dot com!

Theme Song: "Bucharest" by The New Division. Check them out on iTunes!

Special thanks to Phillip Harrington for designing and creating the ANNCast logo.