A new Bishoujo magazine titled Comic Sigma+ will be released on 7/24. Comic Sigma+ will be the sisiter magazine of Comic Sigma, another new magazine from Akane Shinsha that will be launched in September.

Manga is now in the dictionary: "Manga: A Japanese comic book or graphic novel."

Manga top 10 according to Tohan.

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Shissou Nikki (Disappearance Diary) by Hideo Azuma, Grand prize winner of the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival and 2006 Tezuka Award winner, has been licensed by Ponent Mon, and will be distributed in English by Fanfare.

Viz:
- "We're Crazy for Dogs" by Sakuragi Yukiya

June Manga (DMP):
- "LoveHolic" by Kawai Touko
- "Solfege" by Yoshinaga Fumi
- "Alcohol, Shirt & Kiss" by Kuwabara Yuuko
- "The Day I Became a Butterfly" by Sumomo Yumeka
- "Seven" by Tenzen Momoko

Serialization Update from Shoujo/Josei Anthologies.

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Panini Comics Brazil will be launching Kare Kano by Masami Tsuda in July. The price of the manga has not been announced.

...And the old Japanese adage "reading manga all the time makes you stupid" is proven true yet again.

From the Morning Edition of the Chunichi Newspaper for July 4th, 2006:

According to the July 3rd edition of the French newspaper Liberation, 2 16-year old girls from the Paris suburbs, who were both manga fanatics, left home without notifying their families because they "wanted to visit the land of manga."

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The Brazilian manga publisher Conrad has recently released Sanctuary by Sho Fumimura/Ryoichi Ikegami, and Nausucaa by Hayao Miyazaki.

Serialization Update from Shounen/Seinen Anthologies.

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