Category Archives: Mangablog

First prize for the most overheated first sentence in a comics-related press release goes to whoever wrote this: Global manga giants TOKYOPOP and GENTOSHA COMICS have entered into a worldwide partnership to advance the cause of the manga revolution. Especially … Continue reading →

Seven Seas has been doing webcomics since their inception, but now they’re trying a different format: Veteran creators and manga adaptors Nunzio DeFillipis and Christina Weir are writing a new comic, The Ninja Diaries, which will run in the free … Continue reading →

The Manga Recon team pick the best manga of the first half of 2008 at PopCultureShock. This is a good first stop if you’re looking for something new to read. David Welsh looks at this week’s new comics, including some … Continue reading →

ICv2 has published Diamond’s top 100 graphic novels for June, that is. Here’s the manga list. As always, the first number in parentheses is the book’s ranking on the overall GN list, the second number in parentheses is the number … Continue reading →

Newsarama’s Benjamin Ong Pang Kean continues his series on manga with a look at what the future may hold. Here’s an interesting paper by an Australian college student on the popularity of manga outside Japan. And hey, we’re included in … Continue reading →

Danielle Leigh explains why she likes CMX in her latest Manga Before Flowers column, and I’m with her—I love their classic shoujo titles and the newer stuff as well. OK, all you who have been complaining about the Tokyopop website, … Continue reading →