Yearly Archives: 2006

Here’s the Bookscan top ten graphic novels for the week ending May 28. Notice anything? 1. NARUTO, Volume 10 2. RUROUNI KENSHIN, Volume 27 3. NARUTO, Volume 9 4. BLEACH, Volume 13 5. FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, Volume 7 6. NARUTO, Volume … Continue reading →

Don’t miss the discussion going on right now on the Tokyopop Message Board about the effect of bad role models in shoujo manga. It began when someone posted the article The Dangers of Shoujo, from Sleep is for the Weak, … Continue reading →

At Irresponsible Pictures, Pata handicaps the MangaCast awards. Yaoi worth reading? Johanna, who admits she’s not a yaoi fan, samples the latest crop from DMP’s June imprint. Nancy Drew #1: The Demon of River Heights took first place in the … Continue reading →

From the AoD Forums comes happy news for yaoi fans. From the Akadot newsletter: Be-Boy GOLD The magazines that had been on hiatus because of BIBLOS’ bankruptcy have found a new home! Their new publisher will be Libre Publishing. New … Continue reading →

Tokyopop has posted their list of November releases. Hat tip to the folks at the AoD Forums for spotting this and providing lots of opinions! Here’s the list: · Priest Volume 15 · Last Fantasy Volume 3 · Devil May … Continue reading →

In fairly short order, Slashdot reported that the Swedish bittorrent tracker The Pirate Bay was shut down, The Pirate Bay was back up, and someone hacked the website of the Swedish police, which makes me wonder if Captain Jack Sparrow … Continue reading →