Category Archives: Mangablog

Link-o-rama

The anthology discussion continues, and it’s getting a bit technical: At Irresponsible Pictures, Pata discusses the mechanics of reading manga and the difficulties of translating a vertical page to a horizontal screen: If I try to fit the whole page … Continue reading

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Bleach party

ICv2 notes that Bleach appears to be benefiting from the “Cartoon Network effect,” with volume 1 of the series (first released in June 2004) hitting number 7 on last week’s Bookscan chart and volume 2 rising to number 20. (The … Continue reading

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Saturday morning comics

While we’re all arguing about manga anthologies in the English-speaking world, they seem to be doing just fine in Japan. According to ANN, Tokuma Shoten has revived the magazine Ryu and has set up a contest for aspiring manga-kas. I’m … Continue reading

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Some Friday links

On the Tokyopop blogs, ChunHyang72 has some cogent comments on the Fullmetal Alchemist censoring kerfuffle. I thought it was interesting that people were really mixed on this one, with a number of folks, even on ANN, saying it didn’t bother … Continue reading

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Metapost: Stating the obvious

One of my favorite parts of this blog is the comments. I live for comments. I love when you guys take a subject and run with it. So it really hurt to have to lock one comments thread and delete … Continue reading

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MangaBlogCast time!

Yes, it’s that time of the week again. Check out the MangaBlogCast for manga updates and a new feature, Two-Minute Tokyopop. Here are the links: Tokyopop online exclusives Mike Kiley interview Christopher Butcher letter Rob Tokar’s blog Announcement that retailers … Continue reading

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