Category Archives: Mangablog

Bleach takes a break

It’s Manga Moveable Feast time again. (Again!) This time the main dish is Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, and the host is Philip, of Eeeper’s Choice Podcast. His Call for Participation is up now, so get your keyboards ready! The Manga … Continue reading

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Yaoi fans celebrate their special day

I took a look at the past week’s new releases at MTV Geek, and Lissa Pattillo covered them in her On the Shelf column for Otaku USA as well. Meanwhile, Sean Gaffney looks forward to this week’s new manga. Erica … Continue reading

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Happy Yaoi Day!

It’s the busy season! I rounded up the manga news from Otakon (new Vertical series, Kodansha’s iPhone app and sale) at MTV Geek. Deb Aoki explains what’s going on at Shonen Jump Alpha—new additions to the lineup and the speedup … Continue reading

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Looking back at Kodansha’s first year

ICv2 talks to Dallas Middaugh of Random House and Kumi Shimizu of Kodansha Comics about Kodansha’s first year of publishing manga in the U.S. (Here’s a quick summary of the relationship between Kodansha Comics, Random House, and Del Rey.) Vom … Continue reading

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News from JManga, new manga on the shelves

Lissa Pattillo takes a look at this week’s new manga releases in her latest On the Shelf column for Otaku USA. Sean Gaffney looks ahead to the best of next week at A Case Suitable for Treatment. I reported on … Continue reading

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Viz speaks!

Start your reading today at ICv2, where their two-part interview with Viz brass touches on the state of the manga market (better than last year), the problem of kids’ manga, the renewed popularity of shoujo, their “aggressive” push to digital, … Continue reading

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