Manga for…grown-ups?
While the online manga world continues to fret about whether manga will ever grow up, Chris Butcher spots some evidence in TIME Magazine:
Meanwhile, Time...
Meanwhile, the future of manga
Kai-Ming Cha observes:
Guys, I’m at AX and I’m gonna say it: the future looks bleak.I’m not sure that manga readers here are really manga...
Anime Expo reports
The big news this weekend was the Anime Expo in LA, with over 40,000 manga, anime and cosplay fans lining up to hear news...
Kodansha rumbles
Lets and lots of feedback on the Kodansha bombshell out there. Dallas Middaugh confirms its not curtains for Del Rey manga:
Well, it’s business as...
Kodansha in the US confirmed
ICv@ reports a Japanese report that confirms all those rumors about Kodansha entering the US market.
Japan’s highly respected Nikkei financial news service is reporting...
ADV sells furniture, anime
The news that ADV was selling off a bunch of office furniture drew the expected cries of alarm:
From http://www.windsorauction.com/auction.asp : Thurs., June 26 at...
Junko Mizuno at Marvel
CB Cebulski teases Marvel work by famed manga and fine artist Junko Mizuno.
CAT-EYED BOY rocks!
We will not be the only blogger this week to deny the greatness of Kazuo Umezu's Cat Eyed Boy ! No sir. Not when...
Manga watch: Iris Print, Kodansha, etc.
§ Brigid links to the latest on yaoi publisher Iris Print, which, like several little boutique BL publishers, is not doing so hot, and...
PiQ Magazine bites the dust
PiQ magazine, the successor to NewType, has bitten the dust with its 4th issue:
The current issue of PiQ (Issue 4, July 2008) will be...
Mystery of the day
We're not exactly sure what this is, but during World War II it would have been treason.
Rumours updates: Kodansha, Tpop, Wizard, etc etc.
§ Japanator weighs in on the Kodansha mystery with a pretty unequivocable Rumor squashed: Kodansha not making a move into the US market, based...
