Category Archives: Mangablog

ICv2 has posted their list of the top manga properties for fall 2008, and the chart makes interesting reading. Naruto continues to rule at the top of the charts, but Fruits Basket has been displaced from the number two slot … Continue reading →

The new ICv2 Guide to Anime and Manga is out, and the number-crunchers there are predicting a 10% drop in manga releases in 2009: In the ICv2 manga survey at the end of 2007 publishers indicated that they planned to … Continue reading →

Here’s your worthwhile read for the day: At Yaoi 911, Alex Woolfson analyzes a survey of readers of translated yaoi and points out some interesting conclusions drawn from both the questions and the comments section. The MangaCast team picks the … Continue reading →

As the year winds to a close, Katherine Dacey takes a year-end snapshot of the manga industry at Good Comics for Kids. Amazingly, the news isn’t all bad. Kate also makes a big announcement at Manga Recon: She’s moving on … Continue reading →

ICv2 has Diamond’s top 300 graphic novels for November chart. David Welsh looks back at Five Memorable Moments in Manga for 2008 in his latest Flipped column. Back at Precocious Curmudgeon, he puts in the good word for Suppli, a … Continue reading →

Because you can never get enough ninjas… DEL REY MANGA ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF NINJA GIRLS NEW YORK, NY – December 19, 2008 – Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, today announced … Continue reading →