Category Archives: Mangablog

Love Manga checks the USA Today Booklist and finds that Naruto, Kingdom Hearts, and Tsubasa have all slipped off the list, but Bleach makes its first appearance, at number 146. Rumiko Takahashi fan site Rumic World reports that Takahashi-sensei will … Continue reading →

At the Translation Dojo, translator William Flanagan explains how manga in the U.S. evolved into unflipped tankoubon rather than flipped floppies. Christopher Butcher adds his two cents to the yaoi conversation and has a good take on Jason Thompson’s LiveJournal … Continue reading →

PW Comics Week has a longish interview (for them) with Jae-Hwan Kim, the artist of Warcraft. Kim drew manwha in Korea but now works directly for Tokyopop, and he notes some interesting contrasts: PWCW: Did you have to make adjustments … Continue reading →

Time magazine discovers manga, and aside from missing the fact that boys read manga too, they do OK. Most of the article focuses on the business side, with a digression into the global vs. Japanese discussion. Love Manga has the … Continue reading →

At Crocodile Caucus, Lyle contributes the most literary post yet to the ongoing discussion of yaoi and formula fiction. At Love Manga, David Taylor has the business angle covered with a discussion of yaoi and the direct market. David also … Continue reading →

Let’s get to the best news first, from the ANN account of the ADV panel: When questioned about the release of the next volume of Yotsuba@!, Williams replied that it is tentatively scheduled for the first quarter of 2007. The … Continue reading →