Have you submitted nominations for the manga awards yet? Time is running out.
Dragonball Z comes to an end. At the link, Ed puts it in perspective:
In many ways DBZ helped make Viz’s magazine Shonen Jump. Either YuGiOh or DBZ was on the cover for the first year so the Kamehameha power could not be denied.
DBZ is about to wrap up. And when I got this PR email from Viz, I almost deleted it without opening. So after thinking about it I started to wonder “what about Viz without DBZ?”
Shonen Jump is in great shape. Great titles, a good number of subscribers and advertizers are still hanging on so that’s in good condition. SJ Manga is only getting better – CLAYMORE, Death Note and Reborn are great titles people should get excited about. Yeah, Viz is still censoring titles and their QC is meh at best but these guys are the biggest and pretty close to the best and DBZ helped them get their.
The Daily Yomiuri asks Will Pixels Pummel Paper? In comments to yesterday’s post, Jack says that will only happen if we can find a good portable manga reader.
The Avatar Cine-Manga, which to be honest I’ve never heard of, has sold over 500,000 copies. Apparently much of its success is due to Scholastic book fairs, which is the most direct of the direct markets. Bring the books to the kids’ school and they will buy.
Local newspapers discover manga in Boston and northwestern Indiana. The latter evokes a few memories, as I’m from South Bend, Indiana, and my family’s anime and manga odyssey began when my kids found Kiki’s Delivery Service in the public library there.
The Lincoln Heights Literary Society likes Cafe Kichijouji de. Me too! And Tangognat takes time out from pre-wedding madness to enjoy Her Majesty’s Dog.
As a fellow South Bend’er (and still here) I can say I’m amazed at how much manga and anime we have access to here. According to my niece there a niche groups in her school around manga.
Welcome, Lowell!
Last time I was there was almost a year ago, but the B&N on Grape Road had a pretty good graphic novel section. And my kids were able to check out every single Sailor Moon video from the library. Glad to hear it’s still going strong.