Category Archives: Mangablog

Yen Press has just announced that they have picked up the license for volume 6 of Yotsuba&! Volume 6 will be released in September 2009. Check back for more details later. ETA: To be clear, Yen has picked up the … Continue reading →

The manga action doesn’t really start until today, with the Del Rey, Yen Press, and CMX panels, but we did make it to the Vertical panel yesterday and chatted with Steven Padnick of Tor Books, which is Seven Seas’ partner. … Continue reading →

Good news for Rumiko Takahashi fans: She’s working on a new series, which will debut later this year in Shonen Sunday. Words Without Borders, which styles itself as “The Online Magazine for International Literature,” is devoting this month’s issue to … Continue reading →

Forget spring—New York Comic Con is just around the corner, and preparations are well under way here at MangaBlog Central. If you’re only there for the manga, check out Deb Aoki’s list of the manga highlights at About.com. I’ll be … Continue reading →

This story at ICv2 covers ground that is familiar to the readers of this blog—the Tokyopop series listed as “cancelled” from the latest Previews were in fact postponed—but adds a bit of news that will be welcome in many quarters: … Continue reading →

Yesterday, Comics Worth Reading posted a list of cancelled Tokyopop titles, but as I pointed out earlier, that list reflects cancelled solicitations, not cancelled series. I just finished a volley of e-mails with Marco Pavia, Tokyopop’s marketing director, and confirmed … Continue reading →