Yearly Archives: 2010

New licenses, translators wanted, and more digital manga

Viz has a major announcement in the December Shonen Jump: They are planning an online manga site for subscribers to the magazine. Andre Paploo lays out all the details and speculates a bit at Kuriousity. Could this be the game-changing … Continue reading

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Review: Arisa, vol. 1

Arisa, vol. 1 By Natsumi Ando Rated T, for Teens, ages 13+ Del Rey/Kodansha, $10.99 Fourteen-year-old Tsubasa tells people exactly what she thinks, which has earned her the nickname “demon princess” in her high school. Guys find her straightforward manner … Continue reading

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New titles and fresh reviews

Digital Manga has just announced four new licenses on their web page: Border, vols. 1-3, by Kazuma Kodaka; Bad Teacher’s Equation, vols. 1-5 by Kazuma Kodaka; Blue Sheep Reverie, vol. 4 by Makoto Tateno; and the novel Demon City Shinjuku: … Continue reading

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Translators wanted: Must work for free

Kate Dacey takes a long look at this week’s new comics, and she even includes some snippets of reviews. ICv2 talks to Asako Suzuki, who recently returned to the manga world as a line editor at Tokyopop, about her work … Continue reading

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New releases and Yaoi-Con news

David Welsh and Brad Rice check out this week’s new manga. Melinda Beasi rounds up the week’s manhwa news, much of which occurred on Twitter, at Manga Bookshelf, and she also makes xxxHolic her pick of the week. Deb Aoki … Continue reading

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Monday news roundup

As I noted at Robot 6, it looks like Manga Fox is back to its old tricks, posting scanlations of Naruto, Bleach, and other licensed manga after publicly proclaiming it would no longer do so last summer. Erica Friedman brings … Continue reading

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