Monthly Archives: March 2007

Libre links, and more

I’m posting late tonight because I had a busy day, but I couldn’t let this go by: Manga Jouhou’s Floating_Sakura contacted Libre and asked what was going on with CPM. (Background here, if you’re coming to the party late.) Amazingly, … Continue reading

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Vertical integration

Newsarama’s Michael Lorah interviews Yani Mentzas, Editorial Director of Vertical, which is causing all kinds of excitement since it started publishing manga. Here’s Mentzas on their Tezuka titles: One of Vertical’s founding ideas was to publish newly translated Tezuka on … Continue reading

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MangaBlogCast is up!

Head on over to MangaCast for the latest MangaBlogCast, our quick-and-easy digest of the week’s manga news, distilled from the MangaBlog and presented by Jack Tse. Liner notes after the cut. Hard times for BeBeautiful Libre home page MangaCast’s summary … Continue reading

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The first kiss

The sound you just heard is Dirk Deppey smacking himself upside the head as he realizes he missed the first kiss in the history of BL. He makes up for leaving it out of the Shoujo Manga issue of TCJ … Continue reading

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News from Japan

Jordan Marks of Yaoi Suki has put together everything we know about the CPM/Libre situation, including a timeline, some factlets that had escaped notice so far, and some considered commentary. And Shizuki from Broccoli spotted John and Masumi O’Donnell at … Continue reading

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Review: Emma

Emma, vols. 1-3 by Kaoru Mori Rated Teen Plus CMX, $9.99 Kaoru Mori’s lovingly detailed upstairs-downstairs story of a rich man and a maid who fall in love in Victorian England is a joy to read, although it gets off … Continue reading

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