Category Archives: Mangablog

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 →

Kate Dacey, Brad Rice, and David Welsh choose the most likely titles from this week’s new manga. The Manga Village team looks over the best of last week’s new releases. At Manga Bookshelf, Melinda Beasi’s pick of the week is … Continue reading →

Sorry for the lack of blog yesterday—I worked a good portion of the weekend, then started out Monday morning with a session in the dentist’s chair, so I lost my usual blogging times. The great thing about starting your day … Continue reading →

Good morning! Today’s discussion will be about shoujo manga. You should start with two posts, Melinda Beasi’s commentary on Twilight and the plight of the female fan and Christopher Mautner’s review of Moto Hagio’s A Drunken Dream and Other Stories, … Continue reading →

At MangaCast, Ed Chavez posts the latest manga rankings from the BookScan charts, which track sales in bookstores. The numbers after the titles are the difference in sales from the one above. One thing this chart bears out is the … Continue reading →