Portal:Anime and manga/Did you know/1

• ... that the Japanese manga Black God was created by a manhwa team of Koreans who do not know the Japanese language?

• ... that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game?

• ... that before the release of the Japanese visual novel Sora o Tobu, Mittsu no Hōhō, there was a similarly based manga series by Kensha Shimotsuki?

• ... that Reki Kawahara, author of Sword Art Online, planned to submit the draft for the light novel series to a 2002 competition, but refrained because it exceeded the page limit?

• ... that the character posings in the manga Phantom Blood were influenced by the sculpture Apollo and Daphne (pictured)?