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Recession? What recession? The manga companies seem to be jumping with both feet into 2010. Yen Press, which already has a best-seller in their manga adaptation of James Patterson’s Maximum Ride novels and will probably make out like bandits on their Twilight manga, announced another ...
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Simon Jones leads a discussion of what Tokyopop might be up to at the Icarus blog. Everything is very speculative at the moment, since the Tokyopop folks have been quite vague about the notion of using “fan translations,” but this comment from Simon was rather arresting:
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It seems like things have been quiet at Blu, Tokyopop’s yaoi imprint, for a while, but now they are roaring back with a lineup of new titles for spring and beyond, including continuations of popular series like Junjo Romantica and new books from familiar creators like Hinako Takanaga. ...
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Harlequin manga are an interesting hybrid, Japanese manga adaptations of American romance novels, drawn by shoujo manga artists. Dark Horse tried to import them a few years ago, printing the tamer ones in pink ink and the more, ahem, adult ones in purple. Whether it was the colored ink or the ...
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I didn’t get to listen in on the latest Tokyopop webinar, which featured CEO Stu Lefy and senior editor Lillian Diaz-Pryzybl but Daniella Orihuela-Gruber liveblogged it and then offered some additional thoughts, and ANN summarized the high points. Apparently Tokyopop is considering using ...
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Brad Rice and David Welsh check out this week’s new manga releases.
Sadie Mattox posts a brief gift guide to manga erotica at Extremely Graphic.
If you liked ES: Eternal Sabbath (I did!) then David Welsh thinks you may like Night Head Genesis as well.
Vol. 1 of Mega Man Megamix ...
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Kate Dacey puts an interesting spin on the gift guide idea with a half-dozen items that a manga lover would enjoy at The Manga Critic. Sadie Mattox doesn’t like to give books as gifts, but she recommends some one-shots anyway at Extremely Graphic. Deb Aoki files her gift guide for shoujo, ...
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Four out of five reviewers recommend Oishinbo The New York Times published their Graphic Novels Gift Guide last week, but it gets no link from me because it included no manga whatsoever. It’s as if the folks at the Times didn’t know what manga was (which we suspect is indeed the ...
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mangablog.net - 5 days ago
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I find the whole idea of a manga
gift guide a bit puzzling. Who would I be...
giving manga to? People who read manga already know what they like, and they probably read it as soon as it comes out. People who don’t read manga are likely to be stumped by ...
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Manga gift guide 2009
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S. readers! (And everyone else as well—what the heck.)
Objecting to the lack of manga in the New York Times’ graphic novels gift guide, Erica Friedman has rallied the troops to post their own manga gift guides. Mine will be up later this weekend, and Erica ...
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David Welsh beats us all to the end-of-the-year story with his summary of everything he is grateful for (manga-wise) in 2009.
Kate Dacey, David Welsh, and Brad Rice take a look at this week’s new magna, and the Comics Village crew picks the best of last week’s releases.
At ...
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mangablog.net - 11 days ago
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I’m dashing off to work right now, so
I won’t have today’s news up until later, but...
I did want to alert you to the fact that Yokaiden creator Nina Matsumoto is having a live chat today at 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Suvudu.com. All the ...
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Live chat with Nina Matsumoto
At Good Comics for Kids, Robin Brenner looks at circulation statistics for the graphic novels in her library’s collection and draws some surprising conclusions —including the fact that Case Closed circulates more than Twilight. Also, Lori Henderson checks out this week’s ...
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mangablog.net - 13 days ago
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Yokaiden, vol. 2 By Nina Matsumoto Rated T,
ages 13+ Del Rey, $10.99 The second volume of...
Nina Matsumoto’s is as imaginative as the first, but it lacks a bit of the sparkle. Volume 1 introduced Hamachi, a nine-year-old boy who is obsessed ...
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Review: Yokaiden, vol. 2
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Oliver Ho puts the spotlight on horror masters
Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino at Pop Matters. The...
Yaoi Review asks readers to recommend yaoi for first-timers, and the comments section is bulging with suggestions. There’s more reader reaction ...
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Love, terror, Jaws
Joe McCulloch (Jog to most of his readers) has an interesting essay on Astro-Boy at comiXology. If that whets your appetite, check out Astro Boy Magazine, which is now bringing Astro Boy to your iPhone/iPod Touch. (Second link via Robot 6. )
Congratulations to Matthew J. Brady, who is ...
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David Welsh and Ben Huber check out this week’s new releases. Also, today’s edition of David’s shoujo/sunjeong alphabet is sponsored by the letter F.
Lissa Pattillo checks the retail sites and finds a number of possible omnibus editions in the works.
Viz editor Andy ...
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In his latest podcast, Japanamerica author Roland Kelts talks manga with Tyler Brule, editor of the UK magazine Monocle.
Christopher Mautner presents Osamu Tezuka 101 at Robot 6.
At the Icarus blog, Simon Jones comments on a recent report that things aren’t going too swimmingly for ...
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Check out what’s on top of my stack this week in the latest What Are You Reading? column at Robot 6.
The Comics Village team looks over the latest new manga releases.
Lori Henderson ably sums up the week’s manga news at Manga Xanadu, and Erica Friedman posts the latest edition ...
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Doesn’t it seem redundant for the Chicks on Anime roundtable to have Girls’ Night Out? It’s a fun night, though, as yuri publisher Erica Friedman joins them for a chat about girls who like girls who like girls.
Fred Schodt talks Tezuka at The Onion’s AV Club.
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