It looks like the long-awaited CLAMP manga Gate 7 will finally be published in the U.S. Lissa Pattillo caught the word from a CLAMP fan site that the creative team had announced that Gate 7, which has already been serialized in Japan and France, will be published in book format in North America this summer. Dark Horse had announced several years ago that they would publish this series in mini-volumes they dubbed “mangettes,” but they never materialized. We reached out to Dark Horse for a comment but got no response; ANN had slightly better luck, with a cryptic “stay tuned.”
Don’t forget this week’s Manga Moveable Feast, which focuses on the manga of Rumiko Takahashi. Host Rob McMonigal has all the links to the Day Two writeups at Panel Patter.
Sean Gaffney looks at the top-selling manga in Japan and thinks about which ones he would like to see licensed in the U.S.
Caddy C. posts her thoughts on the Nana anime and manga at A Feminist Otaku.
Yen Press will start its manga-style adaptation of Gail Carriger’s Soulless novels in an upcoming issue of Yen Plus, with illustrations by rem, whom you may remember as the winner of the first Morning International Manga Competition and the illustrator of Tokyopop’s Vampire Kisses. Carriger from now until the book comes out, Carriger will be posting rem’s character sketches at her LiveJournal.
Viz has announced some new omnibus editions for summer.
Digital Manga has a few new licenses to show off, including Koi ni Tsuite and some later volumes of other series.
Manga-ka Natsume Ono (Ristorante Paradiso, House of Five Leaves) will be appearing at Kinokuniya in New York on May 10 to speak and answer questions about her work.
News from Japan: Microsoft is publising a manga called Cloud Girl to promote its cloud services system. Two Kadokawa magazines, Gundam Ace and Newtype, will be collaborating to produce a new manga magazine this summer. At Otaku Champloo, Khursten reports that Nakamura Asumiko is back to work on Sora to Hara, after taking a break due to health problems.
Reviews: Carlo Santos checks out a big stack of recent manga in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Ash Brown takes us quickly through a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga. Anna has some quick takes on Viz Signature manga at Manga Report. And the Manga Bookshelf gang posts their latest batch of Bookshelf Briefs.
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 23 of Hikaru No Go (The Comic Book Bin)
Connie on vol. 3 of Maoh: Juvenile Remix (Slightly Biased Manga)
Nicola on vol. 2 of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Back to Books)
Connie on Rose of the Rhine (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of With the Light (Manga Xanadu)