Category Archives: Mangablog

Roland Kelts looks at the international popularity of One Piece in an article that includes an interview with manga-ka Eiichiro Oda and the Viz editors who localize his work for American readers. The Manga Bookshelf team discusses next week’s new … Continue reading →

Seven Seas has Tweeted news of yet another new license; this time it’s D-Frag, a high school story about a guy who is sort of a delinquent who joins a gamer’s club that’s mostly girls. In case you missed it, … Continue reading →

Seven Seas has announced a slew of new licenses in the past few weeks: two Haganai spinoffs Haganai: Club Minutes and Haganai: Now with 50% More Fail, both collections of short stories; two new Strike Witches licenses, Strike Witches: 1937 … Continue reading →

RightStuf will publish volume 6 of Hetalia: Axis Powers next spring, with six color pages in the first print run; after those books are gone, the volume, like the other volumes published by RightStuf, will be print-on-demand and black an … Continue reading →

The Manga Bookshelf team discusses this week’s new manga. Dallas Middaugh and Ben Applegate of Kodansha Comics did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit—check it out for some interesting responses. Related: Tony Yao explains Billy Bat, which is on Middaugh’s … Continue reading →

As folks start to sample Crunchyroll’s manga service, Deb Aoki talks to the folks behind it about their plans for the future (including more series from more publishers) and the bloggers at Organization Anti-Social Geniuses discuss their thoughts and hopes … Continue reading →