Pop Japan Travel has announced several new tours for 2007:

Samurai and Snow Festival Tour - Feburary 1st-9th, 2007
Gothic and Lolita Tour - March 1-8th, 2007
Yaoi Bishonen and Boys Love Tour - March 24th-31st, 2007
Ultimate Ninja Tour - April 17th-25th, 2007

TV Asahi is now accepting votes for its annual Top 100 Anime survey. To vote simply go to to TV Asahi's website. Go here for past survey results.

Source: Papo de Budega

The Yukan Fuji blog reports that Shogakukan is looking to create online versions of at least 2 magazines out of its existing lineup, part of a growing trend towards creating "net" books and magazines, online versions of the print media, as a new revenue source. (Full story in extended)

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From Papo de Budega comes an interview with Daniel Castañeda, General Manager of Cloverway. Cloverway has released numerous blockbuster series in Latin America such as Ranma ½, Samurai Champloo, Trigun, and Love Hina among others. Castañeda found time to talk with Papo de Budega about anime titles and the company's relation with Cartoon Network, which airs a majority of their anime.

Ichijinsha has opened the official site of its new new bishoujo anthology Manga 4Koma KINGS Palette.

From The Japan Times comes an interview with Yoshihiro Tatsumi, mangaka of The Push Man.

Source: MangaBlog

From Cold Cut Distribution comes a list of the top 200 Graphic Novels for this year to date. Love Manga, Icarus Publishing, and MangaBlog expresses their opinion on the list.

David Welsh interviews David Wise, the CEO of Go! Comi, in this week's Flipped column.

Source: MangaBlog

Iris Print will be releasing a new BL anthology titled When Worlds Collide on October 20, 2006. The new anthology will contain five short comics in a manga-sized trade paperback, and is available for pre-ordered on Amazon.com or at the publisher’s web site.

Source: Love Manga

Backstage Prince will be replacing Kaze Hikaru in the October 2006 issue of Viz's Shojo Beat anthology.

Source: ANN