Category Archives: Mangablog

At Anime on DVD, Ed Chavez’s series continues with a look at how CMX fared in 2005. Actually, it’s about how CMX became the most reviled manga publisher of 2005, after editors there decided to redraw the naughty bits out … Continue reading →

Anime on DVD has posted its Best Manga Awards, and I predict that the blogosphere will be pleased. Fruits Basket picks up the laurels for best overall release and best shoujo, while Sexy Voice and Robo gets the nod for … Continue reading →

At The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon picked up on something I missed in the distribution article below: The NYT article also lets drop the approximate number of clients Tokyopop picked up in its Sunday newspaper launch: 30, a solid number … Continue reading →

My review of Crossroad is up at Manga Life. In this week’s Flipped column, David Welsh goes all Valentine’s Day on us by looking at the odd couples in Nana and Kamikaze Girls. At comics-and-more, Think About Comics gives two … Continue reading →

This* article about distribution is strictly insider baseball, but it has some interesting insights. For the uninitiated, distributors are the middlemen between publishers and retailers, although the bigger publishers have distributing arms. The article is about how several publishing houses … Continue reading →

You know, if I worked for Tokyopop and I read this thread on the Anime on DVD forums, I’d be worried. It seems like a lot of people are saying the same thing: “I used to read a lot of … Continue reading →