News and reviews for the discerning manga fan
Stop the presses! VIZ Media has just announced two new shojo licenses for 2012. The first, Io Sakisaka’s Strobe Edge, sounds like a perfect fit with the Shojo Beat catalog: the story focuses on a fifteen-year-old girl who befriends the class hottie, only to learn that he has a serious girlfriend. (Man, I hate it [...]
VIZ may not have made any splashy announcements at SakuraCon, but they’ve been busy enlarging their digital footprint. If you visit VIZManga.com, you’ll see that VIZ has added several new titles to their eBook catalog, including Shaman King and four Arina Tanemura series: Gentleman’s Alliance Cross, I•O•N, Short-Tempered Melancholic, and Full Moon. The most exciting [...]
Like many folks, I was so busy swooning over news of Thermae Romae and Paradise Kiss that I didn’t realize Dark Horse also unveiled new licenses last week. Of the five titles DH announced, two seemed promising. The first, Blood-C, is the latest installment of Blood: The Last Vampire, and features character designs by CLAMP’s [...]
Good news for est em fans — JManga will be releasing her short-story collection Apartments of Calle Feliz (a.k.a. Happy End Apartment) on Thursday, April 12th. Calle Feliz focuses on Luca, a writer whose Eeyore-esque tendencies put him at odds with his editor and his boyfriend. When Luca moves to the fortuitously named Happy End [...]
Paging David Welsh — yet another of his license requests has just been granted! On Friday, Yen Press announced that it will be publishing Mari Yamazaki’s award-winning comedy Thermae Romae. The story focuses on a Roman architect who makes a fortuitous discovery: the tunnel beneath his favorite spa leads to present-day Japan, providing him a [...]
VIZ Media just added three new series to its growing digital catalog, among them Prince of Tennis and Gengaku Picasso. I admit that Prince‘s appeal has always eluded me; I read a few volumes and found the principal character so bratty I had the urge to paddle him with a racket. Usamaru Furuya’s Gengaku Picasso, [...]
In a recent Facebook post, Vertical, Inc. noted that Twin Spica may be its first manga to go out of print. “Sales have been poor, and honestly other publishers possibly would have canceled it instead of incurring loses to finish it,” Marketing Director Ed Chavez explained to disappointed fans. “But sadly there was no word [...]
If your chief criticism of John Carter was “not enough samurai,” then Jonathan Clements would like to introduce you to Hitoshi Yoshioka, author of Z-Signal on Venus (2004), Southern Cavalry Captain John Carter (2005), and Toshizo Hijitaka of Mars (2004). As those titles suggest, Yoshioka has been borrowing plot lines and characters from Edgar Rice [...]
Press your napkins, polish your silver, and put out an extra place setting — the March Manga Movable Feast begins today and runs through March 24th. Johanna Draper Carlson and Ed Sizemore are the hosts; Jiro Taniguchi is the featured “guest.” Anyone with an interest in Taniguchi’s work is encouraged to participate, whether you’re partial [...]
Anime News Network reports that Gon will be getting the CGI treatment this spring with a 50-episode show on TV Tokyo. The program, a joint effort between Daewon Media and Kodansha, is based on Masashi Tanaka’s original manga, which ran in Afternoon magazine from 1992-2002. To promote the new show — and fuel the inevitable [...]
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