Category Archives: Mangablog

Friday news and links

DramaQueen announces the release of a new yaoi manga, Worthless Love. No info is up yet, but I like what they have done with their list of titles: The icons are color-coded by type of book and marked with little … Continue reading

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Del Rey’s February releases

Anime on DVD got the scoop. No permalink, so here’s the list. All are due on Feb. 28, 2007. Basilisk Vol. 4, $13.95 ES ~Eternal Sabbath~ Vol. 4, $10.95 Love Roma Vol. 5, $10.95 Mahou Sensei Negima! Vol. 13, $10.95 … Continue reading

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Learning to read manga

Moving on to weightier matters, The Visual Linguist has an interesting summary of an article on how kids learn to read manga. The biggest gain in ability seems to occur between kindergarten and fourth grade, which is not too surprising. … Continue reading

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Boys who love girls who love boys love

Akadot translates a short interview with a man who dates a fujoshi, a woman who loves yaoi, and blogs about it (in Japanese) at Tonari no 801-chan. Actually, it has a whiff of the fictional about it. It’s like watching … Continue reading

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Thursday news

Naruto, vol. 10, shoots to number 38 on the USA Today top 150, up from 67 last week. Volume 10 of Negima also makes it onto the list, at number 101. Checking the handy database, I note that every volume … Continue reading

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Yaoi goes west

PW Comics Week looks at Yaoi Press, which is producing OEL yaoi manga right here in the USA—in Vegas, in fact. “I have a passion for this genre and I saw that there was currently no large publisher of original … Continue reading

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