Category Archives: Mangablog

Media Blasters is back in the yaoi manga game with the announcement that they will publish You Higashino’s Gay’s Anatomy: Episode Zero, which had been solicited and then cancelled last June. The company’s anime division is still going strong but … Continue reading →

Deb Aoki has a long list of the 21 best manga of 2010. Peepo Choo creator Felipe Smith is living the dream—he is one of the few Americans to get a gig making manga in Japan, for a Japanese magazine. … Continue reading →

Kate Dacey, Brad Rice, and David Welsh make their choices from this week’s new releases. Melinda Beasi’s Pick of the Week is Real; check out Manga Bookshelf to find out why she likes it so much. At comiXology, Kristy Valenti … Continue reading →

The big news this morning is that Viz announced its spring-summer 2011 lineup, and it includes Tenjho Tenge, which will be published in new two-volume omnibus editions that are “100% faithful to the original”—unlike the bowdlerized edition published by CMX … Continue reading →

Molly McIsaac starts us off with the first Best Manga of the Year list of the year (at least, it’s the first I have seen) at iFanboy.com. (Via The Manga Critic.) Meanwhile, the Manga Village crowd pick the best of … Continue reading →

ANN is reporting this morning that 37 Japanese publishers are working together to set up a North American digital distribution portal for manga. What on earth does this mean? It’s not clear, but the players include Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakukan, … Continue reading →