ComiPress offers three intriguing stories to start off your week: a brief history of the relationship between manga and photocopiers, Amazon may start carrying doujinshi, and a story on how kids these days don’t know how to read manga. (All via Manganews.)
ICv2 presents their usual excellent analysis of comics and graphic novels sales and gives their version of the top 100 graphic novels, this time with sales figures.
Uh-oh. A religious bulletin board discovers yaoi, and people are not amused.
CMX has posted previews of The Recipe for Gertrude and VS.
From ANN comes the news that Del Rey has the license for a shoujo version of Densha Otoko, the story of a lonely nerd who courts a girl with help from the internet. It’s due out in November 2006. There’s more commentary on the ANN and AoD forums for. This is the third version announced in English; Viz and CMX are slated to bring out translations of two different three-volume seinen versions of the story.
On the debate over yaoi on the Chirstian bullentian board, people talked about it rather reasonably for the most part, basically saying that they don’t approve of yaoi/yuri but realise that it’s only a small part of anime. I was expecting something with a lot more flames.
I agree. When I first went on it, the comments were mostly negative, but when I checked it after the post the last two commenters had brought some good perspective. I hope the conversation stays this civil.
I spent the day bracing myself to look at that link and I was pleased to see that it wasn’t as bad as could be imagined. I was happy to see a couple posters try to turn it into a learning experience.
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