Posts Tagged ‘Manga’

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 [...]

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 [...]

Deb Aoki of About.com has published an in-depth article on MangaFox and its recent activity in removing licensed titles from Viz Media amongst other major US publishers. On top of that development, she also managed to speak with a former staffer that has opened up at length about the site’s parent company (based in China) [...]

Having read and owned the Hagakure, which is a collection of prose and writings by samurai warrior Yamamoto Tsunetomo that were collected near the end of his life that detail the Bushido honor code while telling the story of a young samurai eager to learn from an old former warrior turned Zen monk; I always [...]

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has published documents received from the Canadian Border Service Agency regarding the organization’s policy for searching laptops after filing a request for the documents under Canada’s Access to Information Act. What was recieved was heavly redacted with whole sections removed and the salient points defining anime as child porn [...]

NANA/Paradise Kiss author Ai Yazawa has revealed in the May 4th issue of Japan’s Josei Jishin anthology that she had been released from the hospital earlier this month after suffering from an unknown illness which caused her to place the fan favorite NANA on hiatus last year. She has also stated that she has not [...]

An update on the official portal for the Japanese Cookie anthology magazine has confirmed that NANA will resume publication beginning with issue #09 slated for release in late June of this year. This follows the hiatus taken by author Ai Yazawa last year due to an unspecified health issue. [via Saouri's Window]

Ahrad of the move of the XXXHolic Rou serialization from Young Magazine to Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in Japan on June 9th, Kodansha has announced that a new one-shot special will be published in Weekly Shonen Magazine on May 19th. The above image corresponds to a new entry in the Shiritsu Horitsuba Gakuen manga that rounds [...]