AX updates and other weekend news

The Anime Expo folks say that attendance topped 44,000 this past weekend, making AX the biggest anime and manga show in the country. Opinion Prone summarizes Deb Aoki’s tweets on the global manga panel and adds some opinions, and Evan Miller has a fuller report for ANN. Yaoi Press announced that they will be starting a light novel line. Japanator’s Tim Sheehy reports on Takashi Okazaki’s panel. (Okazaki is the creator of Afro Samurai.) ANN has cover shots for the new licenses announced by CMX at AX.

At Manga Xanadu, Lori Henderson has a few things to say about Viz’s plans to accelerate the release of One Piece.

Lissa Pattillo spots a few possible Tokyopop titles on Amazon.

Erica Friedman summarizes a week’s worth of yuri news at Okazu.

Japan Today’s Patrick Galbraith talks to Jamie Lano, an American artist who is currently working as an assistant on The Prince of Tennis in Japan.

News from Japan: Ed Chavez posts the weekly manga rankings from Taioysha at MangaCast. Bandai Visual is serializing the AIKa ZERO Cute manga online.

ComiPress is looking for proofreaders for an independent manga project.

Reviews: Want to know what I’m reading this week? Check it out at Robot 6. The latest Manga Pulse podcast features a look at Old Boy and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle.

Erica Friedman on vol. 3 of Alice on Deadlines (Okazu)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Angelic Runes (Kuriousity)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of BakeGyamon (Comics Village)
Connie C. on vol. 1 of Ballad of a Shinigami (Manga Recon)
Jog on vol. 1 of Children of the Sea (Jog – The Blog)
Medora on Cirque du Freak (BSC Review)
Melinda Beasi on Color (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Lorena on vol. 2 of Dororo (i heart manga)
Lori Henderson on vol. 4 of Eagle: The 2008 Election Edition (Manga Xanadu)
J. Caleb Mozzocco on vol. 1 of Fairy Idol Kanon and vol. 1 of The Big Adventures of Majoko (Every Day Is Like Wednesday)
Billy Aguiar on vol. 1 of Game X Rush (Prospero’s Manga)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 1 of Gestalt (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Ed Chavez on vol. 3 of He Is My Master (MangaCast)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 9 of High School Debut (Comics Worth Reading)
Connie on vol. 16 of Hikaru no Go (Slightly Biased Manga)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 16 of Hikaru no Go (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Connie on The History of the West Wing (Slightly Biased Manga)
Danielle Leigh on The History of the West Wing (Comics Should Be Good)
Lissa Pattillo on The History of the West Wing (Kuriousity)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 13 of Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs (Comics Worth Reading)
Connie on vol. 4 of Kiichi and the Magic Books (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lorena on vol. 2 of Land of the Blindfolded (i heart manga)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 5 of Legend (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Nebs on Lucky Star (Nebs Blog)
Billy Aguiar on vol. 1 of The Loudest Whisper (Prospero’s Manga)
Danielle Leigh on vol. 1 of Ludwig II (Comics Should Be Good)
Laura on Mars (Heart of Manga)
Lorena on vol. 2 of Me and the Devil Blues (i heart manga)
Hisui and Narutaki on issue 1 of Mechademia (Reverse Thieves)
Brian Cronin on Mijeong (Comics Should Be Good)
Julie on vol. 5 of Nora: The Last Chronicle of Devildom (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Max Loh on Orange (The Star of Malaysia)
Sesho on vol. 1 of Ouran High School Host Club (Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews)
David Brothers on vol. 1 of Path of the Assassin (4thletter!)
Ed Sizemore on vol. 5 of Sundome (Comics Worth Reading)
Zaki Zakaria on vol. 1 of Tsubasa: Those With Wings (The Star of Malaysia)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 4 of Very! Very! Sweet (Kuriousity)

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Comments

  1. Thanks Brigid for the link :) I’m sure (or hope) that everyone into manga will enjoy reading this upcoming project on some level.

    How’s everything going lately?