Hikaru Sasahara of Digital Manga Publishing gives PWCW’s Kai-Ming Cha all the dope on the Digital Manga Guild, which will allow fans and amateurs to translate manga legitimately and pay a cut of the sales on the back end. Among other things, he names three of the publishers involved, all of whom, I believe, have done business with Digital in the past.
Michelle Smith and Melinda Beasi discuss some recent manga and the last days of Del Rey in their latest Off the Shelf column at Manga Bookshelf.
At the Manga Curmudgeon, David Welsh picks the most interesting manga out of the December Previews, and he also reaches the letter S in his seinen alphabet.
Lori Henderson presents her 2010 Manga Gift Guide at Manga Xanadu.
Reviews: Ash Brown has more short takes on recent reading, this time from the library, at Experiments in Manga.
Lori Henderson on vols. 1 and 2 of Alice the 101st (Comics Village)
Kate Dacey on vols. 1 and 2 of Bunny Drop (The Manga Critic)
Julie Opipari on vol. 4 of Children of the Sea (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Deb Aoki on vol. 1 of Genkaku Picasso (About.com)
Kristin on vol. 1 of Genkaku Picasso (Comic Attack)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kiss (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Lori Henderson on the December issue of Shonen Jump (Manga Xanadu)
Penny Kenny on vol. 10 of Vampire Knight (Manga Life)