Yearly Archives: 2010

Tell it, Shaenon: To be a truly irritating manga nerd, it’s important to obsess over at least one untranslated manga, boring people with long descriptions of its veiled glories and bitching about the myopia of the U.S. manga market and/or … Continue reading →

A federal appeals court has struck down two Oregon statutes that banned furnishing “sexually explicit” materials to minors and “luring” minors with such materials, saying both were too broad and could criminalize giving minors some works that have both adult … Continue reading →

New title watch: ANN confirms that Tokyopop will be publishing the BL title Crimson Snow under their Blu imprint and firms up the release date for the Chibi-Vampire: Bites fan book, and they also found listings for two new Pokemon … Continue reading →

The Vertical folks announced a new title yesterday at their Anime Weekend Atlanta panel: Velveteen & Mandara (Becchin to Mandara), by Jiro Matsumoto. Erica Friedman has all the yuri news that’s fit to print in the latest edition of Yuri … Continue reading →

The Japanese publisher Square Enix, whose properties include Black Butler and Fullmetal Alchemist, revealed its plans for online manga publishing at the Tokyo Game Show yesterday. It looks like the website launch will be pushed back to winter and the … Continue reading →

Gottsu-Iiyan continues his translation of the conversation between Eiichiro Oda and Takehiko Inoue at The Eastern Edge. Here’s a philosophical moment from Inoue: To draw a scene in which that many people are cut dead… It really made me no … Continue reading →