Dark Horse Digital beefs up manga selections

I went over this week’s new manga releases at MTV Geek, and Lissa Pattillo discusses the list in her latest On the Shelf column at Otaku USA.

Deb Aoki takes a closer look at the 26 new yaoi titles announced by Digital Manga at Yaoi-Con two weeks ago.

Good news for those with more manga love than money: JManga has extended their Manga Lovers Sale through the end of November, meaning that most of the books on their site are available for $4.99 a volume. They have also added two new series to the lineup, the adult BL manga Dash! and a manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s novel No Longer Human—not the Usamaru Furuya version that was just published by Vertical, but a different adaptation.

In other digital news, Dark Horse announced yesterday that they have significantly beefed up the manga content in their digital store and app. It’s old but it’s good—vintage manly manga like Crying Freeman, Hellsing, and Old Boy, priced mostly at $5.99 a volume ($6.99 for Crying Freeman). And you can read it from right to left within the app.

The first volume of Sailor Moon was the top-selling graphic novel in bookstores last month, according to Nielsen’s BookScan charts, and vol. 52 of Naruto was number three.

News from Japan: Golgo 13 reminds you that a hanko is more secure than a mere signature. Crunchyroll translates a survey of Shonen Jump manga people are most likely to drop halfway through; Naruto tops the list. Vol. 63 of One Piece is the third volume in a row of that estimable series to sell over 3 million copies. The latest manga by GTO creator Tohru Fujisawa, Soul Reviver, will launch soon in Shogakukan’s new Monthly Hero’s magazine. Haru Karuki will start a Rozen Maiden spinoff, titled Rozen Maiden dolls talk, in Ribon magazine. And ANN has the latest Japanese comics rankings, with Saint Young Men once again leading the pack.

Reviews

Kristin on vol. 17 of 20th Century Boys and vol. 3 of March Story (Comic Attack)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 3 of Ai Ore! (The Comic Book Bin)
Sweetpea616 on Andromeda Stories (Organization Anti-Social Geniuses)
David Welsh on vol. 2 of A Bride’s Story (The Manga Curmudgeon)
Erica Friedman on Hatsukoi Tectonics (Okazu)
Ken Haley on One Missed Call 1 + 2 (Sequential Ink)
Cian O’Luanaigh on Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure (New Scientist)
Carlo Santos on vol. 3 of Tenjho Tenge: Full Contact Edition (ANN)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 13 of We Were There (The Comic Book Bin)
Kristin on vol. 1 of X (omnibus) (Comic Attack)
Tony Yao on Yamikin Ushijima-Kun (Ushijima the Loan Shark) (Manga Therapy)