Category Archives: Mangablog

PR: New UK manga publisher to debut next month

Manga publisher SelfMadeHero to launch in London Independent UK publisher SelfMadeHero launches in early February 07. The focus of the launch is Manga Shakespeare, a book series providing a unique combination of manga and classic dramatic texts. SelfMadeHero books reflect … Continue reading

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Overlooked and underrated

Shaenon Garrity cancels her cancellation of this week’s Overlooked Manga Festival and provides a year-end update. ChunHyang72 pauses for another manga minute and asks: What underrated Tokyopop titles should she add to her pile? Free manga for Monday: Broccoli’s January … Continue reading

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Friday odds and ends

ComiPress translates a Japanese article about the manga market in 2006 and reports on a new manga imprint that will be publishing a new seinen magazine. David Welsh asks if anyone has read Kino no Tabi, and what they thought … Continue reading

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Weekend reading

A classics student named Dygo Tosa has translated a story from Kazuhiro Fujita’s Ushio to Tora Gaiden and he has posted the first four pages on the web along with extensive notes. It’s written as an introduction to manga, so … Continue reading

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Thursday early news

There are some serious rumblings of discontent out there about the American Anime Awards. At MangaCast, Ed dubs their list of nominated manga “stranger than a PWCW top ten list” and in the comments, Yaoi Suki’s Jen Parker notes that … Continue reading

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Manga rebound

This week’s USA Today top 150 is up, and our two favorite series are back, after being pushed off the list by soppy Christmas books last week. Volume 12 of Naruto is back, checking in at number 77 after spending … Continue reading

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