Manga News and Information
NewsYomiuri Online has an article on an exhibition currently being held at the Suginami Animation Museum in Suginami Ward, titled Tezuka Osamu no Atomu to Songoku Ten, where "visitors can watch the Chinese animated film--Saiyuki: Tessenkoshu no Maki (Japan title, 1941)--that Tezuka says was the inspiration for his manga series...." With Sony's portable e-book reader set to launch on October 1, CBR's Tony Salvaggio talks about what it's like to read manga on the e-reader. VIZ Media has announced that it will be present at the second annual New York-Tokyo Music Festival (Saturday, September 30) in Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield, where it will be giving away "a variety of samplers from its hit monthly manga magazines SHONEN JUMP and SHOJO BEAT and more." Source: ActiveAnime According to online book trade website Shelf Awareness, CPM and DramaQueen will be working with Consortium Book Sales and Distribution starting Spring 2007. Source: MangaCast Naruto volume 11 dropped from #43 to #46 on this week's USA Today Booklist. This marks the sixth week Naruto has been on the top 150 list. On September 20, Impress R&D's Internet Life Laboratory released the result of their 2005 analysis on the Japanese electronic manga market in (04/2004 - 03/2005). According to the report, the electronic manga market was worth 3.4 billion yen in fiscal year of 2005. The electronic book market was worth 9.4 billion last year, with the electronic manga market occupying 36% of the entire market. The investigation was based on two reports, "Electronic Book Business Analysis Report 2006" and "Electronic Manga Business Analysis Report 2006," both from Internet Life Laboratory. The reports study the rapidly increasing trend of the electronic book market. "The Rose of Versailles" by Riyoko Ikeda is one of the best-known shoujo manga in Japan and around the world, with over 15,000,000 sold since its debut in 1972. Recently Sony Magazines released a book called "Study French with The Rose of Versaille" that provides basic French lessons. Magikano by Takeaki Momose, currently serialized in Kodansha's Magazine Z, will be put on hiatus due to the Takeaki Momose's bad health and recent injury. ANS has translated the announcement on Takeaki Momose's official site: |
Manga Zombie
Finale: Panelosophy
An ongoing conversation about the philosophy behind manga both in the U.S. and abroad. Manga Ranking
Monthly charts of comparative manga rankings based on aggregate online sales listings from Matt Blind. |
ComiPress teams up with writer Udagawa Takeo and translator John Gallagher to publish an online version of the English-language translation of Manga Zombie.
