The American Anime Awards is now open for public voting. MangaCast has a list of the entries in the Best Manga category:

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In the latest issue of PWCW, Calvin Reid looks at the upcoming NY Comic-Con in "NYCC's Topalian Plans for Big Crowds." Also included is a brief interview with show organizer Greg Topalian.

Sunyoung Lee talks about the popularity of Korean Manhwa in "The Koreans Are Coming: Manhwa in America."

Ichijinsha announces that its 4-koma anthology Manga 4Koma KINGS Palette will become a monthly anthology (from bi-monthly) as of Vol.3, on sale January 25th.

MangaBlog's Brigid interviews Kurt Hassler, the former Graphic Novel Buyer at Borders and the most powerful person in American manga publishing who went on to establish Yen Press.

Keeping the tradition from past new years, on the first day of 2007, Kodansha, Shueisha and Shogakukan all placed full-page ads in numerous major Japanese newspapers.

Source: Nuruwota ga Kiru

Akiba Blog reports that recently telephone cards from Akihabara shops, which featured Rena and other characters from the new PS2 adaption of the visual novel Higurashi no Naku koro ni, were toned down due to inappropriate images.

However, there has been no official statements from the creator of the game regarding the edits, and any questions were met with the vague response: "Due to reasons that can't be made public." According to leaked info, the edits were related to recent government effort of keeping inappropriate content away from children.

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The Star looks at some of the upcoming manga in 2007 from major U.S. publishers in "Manga Bounty."

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The new comic release list from ComicList, compiled by MangaCast.

Publishers Weekly reports that Advanced Marketing Services, which owns distributor Publishers Group West, has filed for bankruptcy.

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From Anime Boredom comes an interview with Seven Seas editor Adam Arnold, who is also the writer of Aoi House.

Source: MangaBlog