Dark Horse will be launching a digital comics app in January, and while they have quite a roster of Western comics, they have just announced the first manga on the app: Lone Wolf and Cub. And Viz is expanding its offerings on the iPad.
GAR GAR Stegosarus brings an anime fan’s perspective to the Kodansha-Del Rey deal and finds it good.
News from Japan: There’s going to be a new Battle Royale manga: Battle Royale: Tenshi-tachi no Kokkyō (Battle Royale: Angels’ Border), a spinoff from the original novel, will start running in Akita Shoten’s Young Champion magazine next month.
Reviews: Carlo Santos takes a quick jog around the latest releases in this week’s Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Ash Brown looks back at a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.
Anna on vols. 1-3 of Black Gate (omnibus edition)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of Blue Friend (Okazu)
Katherine Farmar on Double Cast (Comics Village)
Carlo Santos on How to Draw Shojo Manga (ANN)
Penny Kenny on vol. 1 of Hyde and Closer (Manga Life)
Michael Buntag on vol. 1 of Love is in the Bag (NonSensical Words)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 5 of Ooku: The Inner Chambers (The Comic Book Bin)
Anna on To Marry a Stranger and To Woo a Wife (Manga Report)