Category Archives: Mangablog

GoComics is bringing manga to your cell phone (one more way to while away the time while I’m driving) and for dinosaurs like me (“In my day, all we did was talk on our phones…”) they have a demo up … Continue reading →

The manga world seems to be teeming with activity lately. A new manga studio has sprung up in … New Jersey. Lime will produce two manga series for Tokyopop Germany, Evergrey and Ouija, and will be peddling its wares at … Continue reading →

… something borrowed, but nothing Blu! That describes my reading for the past week. I made two trips to Borders, and on the second one I spotted a bunch of random manga volumes marked 75 percent off, so I bought … Continue reading →

No new news on the arrests of three Tokyo men for putting scanned manga on the web, but there’s an interesting conversation going on on the Anime On DVD forums. Several posters observed that the publishers seem to be concerned … Continue reading →

New blogger alert! Graphic Novelties is the third blog (now that’s ambitious!) of Alabama-based journalist Franklin Harris. He starts right off with a trenchant observation about manga: Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the dearth of manga … Continue reading →

Washington Post reporter Mark Jenkins takes a peek at the wacky world of Katsucon and the popularity of Japanese culture in the U.S. I almost stopped when I got to this: Mostly, these huge-pupiled characters keep to the contemporary electronic … Continue reading →