Yearly Archives: 2010

The latest entry in Jason Thompson’s House of 1000 Manga series is Monster Collection, a game-based manga that does more than just put its characters through their paces. Scanlation updates: At du9, Xavier Guilbert takes issue with the standard narrative … Continue reading →

The anti-piracy coalition announced last week seems to have jumped right into the fray: Deb Aoki reports that MangaFox has pulled down over 200 series. In a forum post, an administrator stated “Our boss is trying to negotiate with them, … Continue reading →

Great work by The Yaoi Review, which caught news of Digital’s “secret project” to hire scanlators on spec to translate them. In a followup post, Digital prez Hikaru Sasahara answers some concerns, stating that Digital will be acquiring the licenses … Continue reading →

Kai-Ming Cha surveys the landscape at PWCW and concludes that despite a tough year, the remaining manga publishers are holding on pretty tight. While several publishers say that scanlations (and scan aggregators) do hurt their sales, I was also interested … Continue reading →

There’s lots of commentary going on about scanlations and the manga publishers’ recent move to shut down manga aggregator sites (which often host scans of licensed manga as well as scanlations of unlicensed titles). Erica Friedman sees scanlations as the … Continue reading →