Category Archives: Mangablog

ComiXology and Amazon Offer Kodansha Titles Same Day as Japan

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Brigid Alverson

ComiXology made a big announcement on Friday: They are getting in the simulpub business, releasing new chapters of Attack on Titan, Fairy Tail, and other Kodansha series the same day they come out in Japan. The chapters will be available … Continue reading →

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Kodansha Announces 7 New Licenses

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Brigid Alverson

Monday was a big day for Kodansha Comics: They announced seven new print titles: Attack on Titan: Lost Girls, Cells at Work!, The Prince in His Dark Days, Welcome to the Ballroom, That Wolf-Boy Is Mine, In/Spectre, and Sweetness and … Continue reading →

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Manga Sales are Up

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Brigid Alverson

For the first time in her career, manga-ka Moto Hagio is collaborating with an artist. Hagio is writing the story for a new series, Tenshi Kamoshirenai (Might be an Angel), which will run in Shueisha’s YOU magazine, and Yū Hatano … Continue reading →

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Manga Market Madness

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Brigid Alverson

Manga titles accounted for half of BookScan’s list of the top 20 graphic novels of February (bookstore sales): Four volumes of Tokyo Ghoul (vol. 5 was the number one seller), three volumes of One-Punch Man, the Naruto novel and the … Continue reading →

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The Manga Revue: Brave Dan and FukuFuku: Kitten Tales

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Katherine Dacey

Do you own a cat tea cosy? Is there an enormous feline jungle gym in your living room? Have you lost entire afternoons to watching YouTube videos of cats opening doors, playing pianos, and riding Roombas? If you answered “yes” to … Continue reading →

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Seven Seas Licenses ‘Re:Monster,’ Cops Bust File-Sharers

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Brigid Alverson

Seven Seas has announced another new license: Haruyoshi Kobayakawa’s Re:Monster, about a teen who dies and is reborn as a goblin in a swords-and-sorcery fantasy world. The first volume will be out in November. [Anime News Network] The Japanese National … Continue reading →

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