Seven Seas announced a new license this week: Venus Versus Virus, a horror/fantasy series about a girl who can see ghosts. Evil ghosts. And there are “yuri undertones.” Ed has some comments at MangaCast.
Deutsche Mangaka crosses the border to translate a Swiss article about Lime, the studio that produces Evergrey.
ChunHyang72 has an excellent roundup of recent manga news on and off the Tokyopop site. Speaking of which, Floating Sakura reviews the latest version of the site at Manga Jouhou.
For the discerning but impecunious reader, global manga creator Pop Mhan is giving away autographed copies of his new book, Blank.
Simon Jones issues a clarification:
Lolicon refers almost exclusively to pornographic manga, and its readers. Gothic Lolita is a neo-victorian fashion movement. So please, please stop refering to Nymphet as lolicon; it’s not pornographic and it’s a disservice to Seven Seas and its creator.
I got the difference between lolicon and Goth Loli all along, but I didn’t realize the definition of lolicon was so restrictive. Of course, much depends on your definition of “pornographic.”
Yaoi and yuri readers, vote now for your favorites at Anime Nation. (Via Yaoi Suki.
Same Hat! scanlates a 16-panel comic by Yoshida Sensa.
At Yaoi Suki, Jordan Marks reviews Let Dai, from Netcomics. At Okazu, Erica gives her take on Gunsmith Cats Burst, which isn’t out in English yet. And Active Anime has been buzzing with activity, with reviews of vol. 15 of Hana-Kimi, vol. 8 of From Eroica with Love, vol. 4 of Sugar Sugar Rune, vol. 6 of Girls Bravo, and vol. 2 of the light novel Boogiepop Returns: VS Imaginator.
I purposely meant to confuse people on the MBC podcast just so we could all learn a bit more about loli and loli-porn.