Forget your white belt and skinny jeans, indie rockers. Leave your ironic moustache, black t-shirts and bad tattoos at home. Manga is the new trend for the summer.

According to the Young Sunday Comics, the popular rock manga “Go-On!” will feature American Rock band Weezer as a guest on their comic book, along with collaboration artwork by Akisige for the Japan release for the Red Album in stores June 4th 2008. Apparently in the manga, the main character is a typical loser type who starts listening to Weezer because of his crush. Throughout the story the Weezer Blue Album is a motif and is a huge part of the main character’s life. Apparently, Weezer’s front man, Rivers Cuomo, has read the manga and is very excited about their future collaborations.

Who knows, maybe Rivers and the rest of Weezer will appear mangafied in a chapter or two?

By Taeko Saito