Category Archives: Mangablog

Happy 5th Anniversary to Manga Jouhou, which has been spreading the manga love since 2003. MJ, also called Manganews, is the most comprehensive site on the net, providing updates on scanlations as well as licensed manga news and reviews. The … Continue reading →

Iris Print recently canceled their planned boys love magazine BL Twist, and they have also been rather quiet lately. Now Yaoi Suki posts a letter from the publisher and the news that if you want more of that sweet, sweet … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s year-in-review piece, Christopher Butcher commented that Yen Press had a “notoriously difficult time” getting licenses and wondered whether With the Light, their manga about autism, had sold well. Yen Press co-publisher Kurt Hassler, no stranger to the internets, … Continue reading →

This just came in as a comment to the last post: Here’s a scoop for you. ADV is telling potential advertisers that their new magazine will be called PIQ (as in “sneak peak” or “pique your interest”). The fact that … Continue reading →

Christopher Butcher has an extended commentary on David Welsh’s roundup of the year in manga at Comics 212. Well worth a read. Tiamat’s Disciple looks at how various publishers fared in 2007 from a UK perspective. Anime on DVD has … Continue reading →

At PWCW, Calvin Reid has the details on the Seven Seas-Tor Books deal, including two new titles coming from Seven Seas: Inukami, a manga, and Kuro Majo-san ga Touru (roughly, Here Comes the Black Witch), a light novel aimed at … Continue reading →