On the USA Today Booklist for the week ending August 20, Viz Media's Naruto Volume 11 makes it to #33, while Tokyopop's Fruits Basket Volume 14 fell to #59.

Source: ANN

MangaCast has the latest Diamond Previews for September of 2006.

Source: MangaCast

Naruto and Hellsing have been nominated for the 2006 Quills Award. Users can vote here, winners will be announced on 10/10 in NYC.

Source: ANN

PWCW interviews yaoi mangaka Makoto Tateno, author of Yellow.

Manga top 10 according to Tohan.

1. Negima vol.15 Limited Edition
2. MAR vol.15
3. Hajime no Ippo vol.77
4. Naruto vol.34
5. Beck vol.27
6. Bleach vol.23
7. Karakuri Circus vol.43
8. D-Live!! vol.15
9. Initial D vol.33
10. Get Backers vol.36

Yomiuri Online has posted a review of Studio Ghibli's newest movie, Gedo Senki. Below is a translation of the review.

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Ikimashou.net has gathered a list of links to various sites with comprehensive Comiket 70 coverage. MangaCast also covers of C70...in podcast form.

The Death Note movie began playing in Hong Kong theaters on 8/10. According to reports, the movie took in 1,030,077 HKD (approximately 130,000 USD) in its first day, making it the highest-grossing Japanese movie to ever hit Hong Kong in the past 10 years.

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According to this post, a person submitted another artist's artwork to the British anthology MANGAQUAKE, which used the artwork as cover for MANGAQUAKE#2. According to the post, the artwork belonged to HOON, a concept and comic artist and the lead artist of MESS STUDIOS.

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Tokyopop's columnist, Chris Arrant, interviews Takeshi Miyazawa, who is planning to move to Japan and try his hand at becoming a successful manga-ka.

Source: MangaBlog