Archive for the ‘Manga’ Category

A new GoldenBoy serial will debut in the pages of Japan’s Business Jump magazine on September 15th in Japan and will be titled Golden Boy II-Sasurai no Obenkyô Yaro Geinôkai Ôabare Henrietta but it is currently not known whether it will be an all-new series or a one-shot story.  The new story will reportedly center [...]

A 2ch user has confirmed that the conclusion of the XXXHolic omake DVD given away with the purchase of the three XXXHolic one-shots published this summer (Shonen Magazine with XXXHOLiC Rou oneshot Magazine SPECIAL with Holitsuba oneshot Bessatsu Shonen Magazine with the first chapter of XXXHOLiC) has confirmed another episode of the XXXHolic Rou OAD [...]

The first scans of this week’s Shonen Ace have surfaced confirming the staff and release details for the forthcoming Nichijou OAD being bundled with the 6th volume of the comedy manga in January of 2011.  Kyoto Animation is handling the project with the following staff: Director: Tatsuya Ishihara Co-Director: Taichi Ishidate Character Designer: Futoshi Nishiya [...]

A new application for managing digital comics and manga in ComicBookLover promises to do for those books what iTunes did for music management on the Mac. The Mac exclusive desktop application developed by BitCartel, allows for reading in western or Japanese double page mode, tagging, support for metadata entry using the ComicBookInfo standard, title entry [...]

The first volume of the Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan manga has been listed on the Simon & Schuster portal with a February 2011 release date along with the second volume, which is also listed for an April 2011 release.  Viz Media has not officially announced the manga license at this time, although the [...]

Bandai Entertainment has announced (during a flight delay at BMI, of all places) a new Code Geass manga title in A Record of the Strange Tales of the Bakumatsu Era: Code Geass. The title is unrelated to the forthcoming Shikoku no Renya side story written by the anime series director and was erroneously announced before [...]

Author Urotan has posted a notice on his site regarding the hiatus of the current Strike Witches serial being published in Comp Ace.  Below is his statement on the serialization translated by Canned Dogs: “I’ll just report about what has been happening recently It has been really disorganized right from the start when I took [...]

Swedish newspaper TheLocal (known for their offbeat journalism) reports that a Swedish manga translator has been fined by the district court of Uppsala Sweden for the possession of 51 images that the court determined were child pornography under Sweden’s current laws.

The limited edition 13th volume of the Princess Resurrection manga will include an OAD as a bonus which will be released this winter.  The 12th manga volume will available on July 9th with the September issue of the series home in Monthly Shonen Sirius being released on July 26th. In related news, the key visual [...]

Following up on the internal strife occurring within the MangaFox aggregator, the RedDeer Forum blog has discovered that the aggregator is deliberately obscuring yaoi/yuri titles to appear compliant with Google’s AdSense terms of service, which explicitly prohibits explicit pornography.  The titles will still appear via permalink and bookmark as normal complete with banner ads. The [...]