The New York Anime Festival is hosting a "Super Para Natural Manga Day" this Sunday, 17 May, at New York City's Kinokuniya Bookstore (1073 Avenue of the Americas). It will be "a day of events celebrating the creepy, spooky, and cool side of Japanese comics and animation."
The schedule of events includes: 11AM: Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody screening 1PM: "Vampires in Manga" presentation by performance group Alone Together NYC 2PM: Ghost Hunt screening 3PM: Del Rey Manga presentation 4PM: D.Gray-Man screening 5PM: Samurai Beat Radio Broadcast 6PM: Boogiepop Phantom screening 7PM: Raffle (winners must be present). Prizes include: 50 books from Del Rey Manga; five Bleach prize packages from VIZ Media; Death Note posters and pins; two tickets to the Vamps NYC concert; Boogiepop Phantom and The Third: The Girl with The Blue Eye sets; Vampire Hunter D busts, artbooks, figurines, novels, and manga
Co-sponsors of the day's festivities (and donors of the raffle prizes) include: Alone Together NYC, Dark Horse Comics, Del Rey Manga, FUNimation Entertainment, The Right Stuf International, Samurai Beat Radio, VIZ Media, and VIZ Pictures. For more information, see this page.
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