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SDCC followups and some good advice for readers

Deb Aoki has a roundup of Thursday at Comic-Con that is so thorough, your feet will hurt when you’re done reading it. Anime Diet’s Mike liveblogged the Best and Worst Manga, Yen Press, and Tokyopop panels. Lori Henderson sat out … Continue reading

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Conversations and controversies

With the demise of One Manga and the rise of legit digital manga sites, there has been plenty of action in the online manga space over the past week. At Robot 6, I took the online version of Yen Plus … Continue reading

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Apres le deluge, manga

San Diego Comic-Con was busy but didn’t feature as many manga announcements as in previous years. I rounded up the weekend’s news at Robot 6; The big news was that Drawn & Quarterly licensed two manga by Shigeru Mizuki, Onward … Continue reading

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Manga for grown-ups

There’s plenty of manga action going on at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend; most of the big publishers are there, although they don’t seem to be announcing huge numbers of licenses as in years past. Top Shelf announced it would … Continue reading

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BREAKING: One Manga shutting down, Square Enix opens up shop

One Manga, the largest illicit manga scan site and one of the top 1,000 websites on the whole internet, is shutting down. This message, from site administrator “Zabi,” appears on the front page: “There is an end to everything, to … Continue reading

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Pre-SDCC news roundup

Kate Dacey has some summer reading suggestions in her latest Good Manga for Kids column. Here’s the full press release on the three new series that Seven Seas announced yesterday: As predicted by ANN, they are ToraDora, Amnesia Labyrinth, and … Continue reading

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