Category Archives: Mangablog

The organizers of the Toronto Comic Arts Fest, a.k.a. TCAF, announced their first round of guests this week, and it includes Taiyo Matsumoto (Tekkonkinkreet, GoGo Monster) and Gengoroh Tagame. Both will be debuting new books at the show: Matsumoto will … Continue reading →

I talked to the editor of IKKI’s webcomics site, Yumetaro Toyoda, and translator Simona Stanzani about the new site, which carries a House of Five Leaves spinoff (in Japanese only, alas) and a very interesting new comic, Pandemonium, by Sho … Continue reading →

The slow return of Tokyopop continues with the relaunch of their website. A much calmer version than the previous iterations, it puts the books front and center, with a selection of print manga (Hetalia and OEL titles) that are available … Continue reading →

The Manga Bookshelf team discusses their picks of the week. Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss the end of Chocolat in their latest Off the Shelf column. Johanna Draper Carlson takes a detailed look at Digital Manga’s revamped eManga site. … Continue reading →

Jason Thompson looks at censorship of manga (usually done internally by the publisher) and the greatest censorship fails of all time in his latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN. The Manga Bookshelf bloggers look forward to next week’s … Continue reading →

Time to use your gift cards: This is a great week for new manga, with Heart of Thomas, the second volume of Message to Adolf, and a big stack of shoujo and shonen manga hitting the stores (vol. 3 of … Continue reading →