Thinking about MangaNEXT? ComiPress has an interview with organizers to help whet your appetite.
Naruto and Hellsing have been nominated for Quill Awards in the Graphic Novel category. That means two of the five nominees are manga, which isn’t bad, but Fun Home, which I’m reading now, will be tough to beat. (Via The Beat.) Click on the link on the Quills site to cast your vote.
At the Tokyopop blogs, CEO Stu Levy has a few comments about the site. He says they’re listening to reader feedback, but then he says this:
We are not here to regulate or censor—it’s up to you guys as a community to support each other and also let each other know when someone is crossing the line.
I think that right there has been the biggest complaint! Elsewhere on the blog, Telophase has a new column, this one about collaborating on manga, and editor Beedlejuice is reading lots of YA fiction.
Given the average site user’s age, Levy’s comment is a cop-out on Tokyopop’s part. The new site controls are a partial fix, but they can also interfere with notifying people who have, in Levy’s words, “crossed the line.”