Hikaru Sasahara speaks

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

Deb Aoki talks to Digital CEO Hikaru Sasahara about his plans for the Digital Manga Guild and how he hopes it will change the licensing system for manga.

Melinda Beasi rounds up the latest manhwa news in her Manhwa Monday post.

Opinion pieces: AstroNerdBoy is getting impatient for his Del Rey series; Kodansha has taken back the licenses but seems to be slow getting the books out. Lori Henderson is pleased to see Asako Suzuki is back to editing manga, having moved from CMX to Tokyopop.

The Japanese company Katalyst is publishing a manga direct to iPad: Maniac Tours was released simultaneously in Japanese, English, and French on Saturday, and the first chapter is free.

News from Japan: A four-volume full-color manga adaptation of the anime Highschool of the Dead will be coming out next spring.

Reviews: Omar posts some short reviews of recent releases at About Heroes, and Kate Dacey has more short takes at The Manga Critic. Ash Brown looks at a week’s worth of reading at Experiments in Manga. Other reviews of note:

Alex Woolfson on vol. 1 of Adamo Anthology (Yaoi 911)
Nick Smith on vol. 1 of Arisa (ICv2)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 4 of Biomega (The Comic Book Bin)
Todd Douglass on vol. 3 of Black Butler (Anime Maki)
Sophie Stevens on vol. 2 of Chobits (omnibus edition)
Michelle Smith on vol. 1 of K-ON! (Soliloquy in Blue)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of Kuro Zakuro (Comics-and-More)
Anna on vols. 2 and 3 of Library Wars: Love and War (Manga Report)
Kristin on vol. 3 of MAOH Juvenile Remix (Comic Attack)
Michelle Smith on not simple and Ristorante Paradiso (Comics Should Be Good)
Anna on vol. 1 of The Stellar Six of Gingacho (Manga Report)
Animemiz on Yakitate!! Japan (Anime Diet)

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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4 Responses to Hikaru Sasahara speaks

  1. Michelle Smith says:
    November 9, 2010 at 9:49 am

    Thanks for the links, Brigid! My review for Comics Should Be Good, though, is actually the first volumes of House of Five Leaves and Gente. My opening paragraph does reference the titles you mention, but in the context of linking to previous reviews by Danielle Leigh.

  2. Humberto Saabedra says:
    November 9, 2010 at 2:16 pm

    Thanks for the link back to the Highschool of the Dead color manga release, Brigid. Feels nice to be recognized by a peer.

  3. Oliver says:
    November 9, 2010 at 8:56 pm

    Love Hikaru Sasahara’s interview. It’s great to know a bit about the CEO himself and love his attitude about changing the way industry works.

  4. svetlana says:
    November 11, 2010 at 1:02 am

    Am I imagining it or is Hikaru Sasahara’s name misspelled a couple of times up there?… *squint*
    Great interview, thanks for linking! :D

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