Ivrea Publishing has announced that it plans to release Takehiko Inoue's samurai manga Vagabond (バガボンド) in Argentina. The manga will have approximately the same format as its Japanese counterpart (12,8 x 18 cm). Ivrea promises that the manga will be released in the beginning of 2007, in either February or March.

Source: Papo de Budega

Comixpedia is now accepting nominations for its 2006 POW List.

Go here for Comixpedia's List of 25 People in Webcomics for 2005.

In the second installment of its "801 Employee Spotlight" column, 801 Media interviews its own mascot Tomo-chan.

Hakusensha has posted its Young Anime website videos of last month's Detroit Metal City event, which took place at Tower Record in Shinbuya.

The same blog that released scans of Takeshi Obata's new Weekly Jump series a few days ago has released another scan. According to the new scan, Obata's new series will be called Blue Dragon: RaruΩGurado. There has been no official confirmation regarding the new series, and the scans posted has not yet been confirmed to be authentic Jump scans.

On the evening of November 15th, Ken Ishikawa, renowned as the co-creator, with Go Nagai, of Getter Robo series, passed away at the age of 58. The cause of death was acute heart failure.

Tokyo Sanseisha will be releasing two new adult manga magazines this winter:

November 16th - LOVESPO Comic (ラブスポコミック)
December 16th - Comic International (コミックインターナショナル)

Yaoi Suki points out 10 new titles on DramaQueen's website. According to DramaQueen, this is "an early Christmas present to the fans."

- "Doctor's Rule" by Sakura Ryou
- "Here Comes the Wolf?!" by Kouga Youichirou
- "I'll Get You! Wanted: Mysterious Man!" by Asa Kusuko
- "Junk!" by Sakurai Shushushu

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Manga top 10 according to Tohan.

1. Naruto vol.35
2. D.Gray-man vol.9
3. Gintama vol.15
4. Minami-ke vol.3
5. Sengoku vol.11
6. Steel Ball Run vol.10
7. Otogi mo you Aya ni Shiki vol.2
8. Nodame Cantabile vol.16
9. Nodame Cantabile vol.1
10. Nodame Cantabile vol.3

The first issue of Comic choiS! (NSFW), a new bi-monthly adult manga magazine from Akane Shinsha, was released on November 9th.