Manga News and Information
NewsMangaZenkan.com, an online manga shopping site selling only complete sets of old manga series, opened in August and instantly became famous. The online store's business experienced a great start, as the site has sold more than 20,000 manga in just one month. Recently another online manga store, ZenkanDokuha.com (全巻読破.COM), supported by Prima Project Corporation in Kawasaki city, opened on October 16th. Like MangaZenkanm, ZenkanDokuha focuses on selling complete sets of old manga. A "manga day" event, supported by Neo Magazine and Manga Entertainment, took place today from 11:00am to 6:00pm at London Graphics Centre's (an art supply retailer) Covent Garden store. The following groups attended the event: From ANS comes a report of this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as well as an exclusive screening report of Shin Seiki Evangelion Movies Death (True)2, Air, Magokoro Wo, Kimi Ni (The End Of Evangelion) and more at animecs T!FF In Akihabara 2006." The Hachette Book Group has announced a new young men/adults oriented comic imprint called Yen Press. According to PW, "The imprint will be directed by former DC Comics v-p Rich Johnson, who joined Hachette last month, and Kurt Hassler, formerly the graphic novel buyer for the Borders Group, who will join Yen Press November 27." Kurt Hassler recently ranked No.1 on ICv2's "Ten Most Powerful People in Manga" list. MangaCast points out several new titles on Rightstuf listed under Infinity Studios: - "ChibiMono" by Shinonome Mizuo There has been no official announcement regarding the new titles. From Active Anime comes an interview with BL mangaka Makoto Tateno, author of DMP's Yellow and the upcoming Hero Heel. In the interview Makoto Tateno talks about how she became a mangaka, the difference between "Shounen Ai" and "Yaoi," and more. When asked if she has any current or future projects, Tateno answered, "I’m currently working on 6 different titles." Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Joann Sfar will appear at the San Francisco Public Library Presents on November 14th.
MangaBlog points out Tokyopop's new online manga preview feature, where new chapters will be posted every two weeks:
Leiji Matsumoto (68) is known for creating Space Battleship Yamato, Captain Harlock, and many other classic series. Recently Leiji Matsumoto announced that parts of his script from Galaxy Express 999 has been stolen by the 37 years old J-Pop singer and songwriter Noriyuki Makihara, and was used in the singer's lyrics in Chemistry's recent album "Yakusoku No Basho" (Promised Place). Although Leiji Matsumoto said that he won't incriminate the singer, he Noriyuki Makihara will apologize to him: "We are interested in his next action." According to Leiji Matsumoto, the phrase stolen came from volume 21 of Galaxy Express 999: "時間は夢を裏切らない、夢も時間を裏切ってはならない" (The dream never fails the time, and the time also never fails the dream.) The phrase was also used in the live-action play of Galaxy Express 999. In the "Promised Place," the phrase was modified into "夢は時間を裏切らない、時間も夢を決して裏切らない" (The word order is reversed). MangaBlog points out that Dark, But Shining has posted an interview with Dark Horse's director of manga licensing, Michael Gombos. |
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.
