Category Archives: Mangablog

It’s that time of the week again! From ComicList, here are the new manga to expect in bookstores this week. A. D. VISION Cromartie High School, vol. 6, $10.95 DC/CMX Tenjho Tenge, vol. 7, $9.99 Young Magician, vol. 4, $9.99 … Continue reading →

Three Japanese men who scanned lots and lots of manga and posted it on a website were sentenced and fined on May 17. According to a story posted last February, Toratsugu Muramoto, the owner of an Internet cafe in Fukuoka, … Continue reading →

I’m still helping with flood cleanup (paperwork, not actual digging) so posting and commentary will be light. But here are a few items I woke up to this morning: FUNimation has picked up distribution rights to “selected titles” in the … Continue reading →

ICv2 covers Viz’s announcements at the Book Expo America. Actually, most of these titles were announced at NYCC, but ICv2 provides a bit more info. Buko Rensin, a new series by Rurouni Kenshin author Nobuhiro Watsuki, looks promising and a … Continue reading →

Newsarama interviews the creative team behind Amazing Agent Luna. An early example of sequential narrative is on display in Kyoto: narrative scrolls from the Heian period. Ikimashou has an interview with translator David Ury, whose work includes Genshiken and Pastel. … Continue reading →

Vol. 7 of Fullmetal Alchemist is on the USA Today Top 150 books list for the second week in a row, slipping to number 139 after debuting last week at number 100. Death Note, number 126 last week, slipped off … Continue reading →