Top 10 manga (10/17) according to Tohan:

1. Hunter X Hunter, Volume 24
2. Bleach, Volume 30
3. Initial D, Volume 36
4. Gintama, Volume 20
5. Claymore, Volume 13
6. Vampire Knight, Volume 6
7. 21st Century Boys, Part 2
8. Kiniro no Corda, Volume 17
9. Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Official Character Book
10. To-LOVE-Ru, Volume 6

Additional Rankings:

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Japan News Review is reporting that Kimimaro Ayanokouji, artist of the manga Tsuma no Kuchi Ichido Haritai Gum Tape, will be getting his own Nintendo DS game. The game will be called Mainichi ga tanoshii! Ayanokouji Kimimaro no Happy Techo. An online trial of the game can be found here.

Source: theOtaku

The New York Times has published an interview with Daniel Pink, author of Free Agent Nation. According to the interview, the Daniel Pink has been doing research in Japan in order to create a new manga for a business audience:

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ANN reports that staffs from Tokyopop and Viz Media will be leading manga-related seminars during the "Manga Festival" taking place at the Akihabara Enta Festival:

For the international market symposium, Tokyopop CEO Stuart Levy is scheduled to lead a seminar on the manga market in the United States, while members from the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) will present on other foreign markets.

Chuosha is reporting that Takuya Fujima's Negima!? neo, an alternate retelling of Ken Akamatsu's Mahou Sensei Negima!, will begin serialization in Magazine Special No.2 (1/18) after it ends in Comic Bom Bom.

Yahoo Auction Watch is reporting that "a fake signed sketch by Akira Toriyama" recently appeared on Yahoo! Auctions. Although the item seemed obviously fake, the seller seemed to believe that this is a real sketch (or at least pretended to believe it), and replied politely to all the rude comments. Later the sketch was sold for 39,800 yen.

Source: New Akiba

Canned Dogs reports that the online novel Sena???Sena will be adapted into a manga and begin serialization in the December issue of Comic Gum:

The manga will be illustrated by the pixel maritan artist (who also did the art for Fate/Tiger Colosseum)

Sena???Sena was previously introduced here. Also the picture in the post is from the online novel and not the manga, because I like co2a more than I like maritan.

From ManagCast comes another installment of its "Morning Report," an feature that looks at Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning, as well as works and manga artists related to the magazine.

Manga Zombie, written by Udagawa Takeo, was published in Japanese in 1997 by Ohta Shuppan. The book covers a range of thirty-one Japanese manga artists active primarily in the 1960s and 70s. Some of the artists are relatively well-known in the English-speaking world, while others are famous or cult figures only in Japan. However, they are all, in some sense or other, "outsider" artists and figures of the sixties and seventies cultural underground. Most of them spent the bulk of their careers in short-lived magazines oriented towards graphic sex and violence, like Manga Erotopia. Some, however, saw success in more prestigious publications like Garo and mass-circulation mags like Shonen Jump.

The selection of artists was made by Udagawa Takeo on the basis that they represent the most authentic and exciting work being done in the medium before market forces (in Udagawa-san's point of view) squeezed the artists' freedom of expression to an absolute minimum in the late seventies.

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[ABOUT TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ANIME FAIR]
The Tokyo Inernational Anime Fair 2008, which is sponsored by the governor of Tokyo, is the largest anime exhibition.

At the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007 that was held in March 2007, we were able to welcome 106,395 visitors including overseas.

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