Winners of the 1st FureComi Manga Competition are now avialable on Shonen Blood's website Web★Blood:

Grand Prize:
- Prize: 300,000 yen, serialization on Yahoo's online service Flex Comix, Fax/Scanner

None

It is regrettable that no work were able to win the grand prize, please wait for the next time!

Outstanding Performance:
Prize: 100,000 yen, Fax/Scanner

• Bloodline by Hiroshi Yanagisawa and Kouta Sakamoto

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According to Champion Red Ichigo's news page, volume 2 of Akita Shoten's Champion Red Ichigo (6/5) will come with an announcement regarding a big project. Currently the only information available is that the project will be a follow-up to the manga My-HiME and My-Otome, more information will be available in Champion Red Ichigo issue 2.

The new comic release list for May 9th 2007 from ComicList, compiled by MangaCast.

After announcing its plan to release Naruto in Brazil, Panini Comics Brazil has since revealed more details regarding their plan to release the manga. According to Papo de Budega, the manga will be released in May. The format of the manga will be 13.7 x 20 cm, with approximately 192 pages a volume.

Source: Papo de Budega

From The Toronto Stars comes an interview with Svetlana Chmakova, creator of Dramacon.

Also, David Welsh talks with Gonzalo Ferreyra, Viz's vice president of sales for home video, in his latest column of Flipped.

Via: MangaBlog

Celebrating its 3rd anniversary, anime news and review website Active Anime has announced a huge giveaway, the grand prize of which is worth over $500:

ACTIVE ANIME will be giving away prizes starting next week, and an official announcement will be made this coming Friday. The Grand Prize will have a value of over $500. Yes that is a value of over FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, and the value could just get even bigger! What to do for now? Register and post! That's all for now. Sorry US and Canadian resident only.

From Papo de Budega comes an interview with Satoshi Kon (今敏), one of the most popular anime directors today. Satoshi Kon is known for works such as Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue, Paranoia Agent, and more. In the interview Satoshi talked about many things, including his newest work, an adventure/fantasy movie for children. Complete interview available at Papo de Budega.

MangaCast translates the weekly Doujinshi ranking (05/05) in Japan according to Toranoana, and the weekly BL Doujinshi ranking (05/05) in Japan according to Toranoana's BL specialty store Princess Side.

According to the latest TOC info, a new series titled Kiss☆Cry by Akira Segami (creator of Kagetora) will begin serialization in Weekly Shonen Magazine issue 24, on sale May 16th.

Source: Ultimatum Chat

According to its official website, Ichijinsha will be releasing the first issue of a new game and anime bishojo manga magazine titled Chara☆Mel on June 25th.