...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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DMP Books announces the Vampire Hunter D manga, to be released in English before its Japanese release.

Dark Horse licenses:

- "Dame Dame Saito Nikki" by Saitou Tomoyuki
- "Satsuma Gishiden" by Hiroshi Hirata
- "Samurai Champloo Roman Album Guidebook"

Viz announces:

- "Gentleman's Alliance" by Tanemura Arina
- "Punch!"
- "Be With You (novel)"

Go! Comi announces:

- "Black Sun, Silver Moon" by Tomo Maeda
- "Train + Train" by Hideyuki Kurata & Tomomasa Takuma
- "The Devil Within" by Ryo Takagi

Bandai Manga licenses the original manga adaptation of Witchblade.

Tokyopop licenses:

- "Wild Adapter" by Kazuya Minekura
- "Gakuen Heaven" by You Higuri
- "Soul Rescue" by Kanno Aya
- "Kilala Princess" by Nao Kodaka
- ??????'Nosats' Junkie" by Fukuyama Ryouko
- "More of Somedays Dreamer" by Yamada Norie & Yoshizuki Kumichi
- "Sex Pistols" (tentative title) by Kotobuki Tarako
From ADV:
- "Tactics" by Sakura Kinoshita
- "Peace Maker Kurogane" by Nanae Chrono
- "Aqua" by Kozue Amano

Pop Fiction Line:
- "Scrapped Princess"
- "Kino no Tabi"
- "Chain Mail"
- "Calling You"
- "Gravitation 2 "

Serialization Update from Shounen/Seinen Anthologies.

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