In its latest issue, PW Comics Week interviews O'Donnell of CPM Manga, who talks about CPM's past, present, and future.

Source: Icarus Blog

801 Media recently announced its official mascots, "801-chan" and "Tomo-chan."

Source: ANN

Brazilians fans of Saint Seiya and One Piece rejoice: Saint Seiya Hades Phase (ep 1 -13) and One Piece (ep 1 - 104) have been acquired by Rede Bandeirantes and could be aired in March 2007. The information was passed out with enthusiasm from Toei Animation to Brazilian fans. More information coming soon.

A new scholarship from Inoue Takehiko, called Slam Dunk Scholarship, was established for aspiring Japanese students planning on attending South Kent School in Connecticut "to learn English, play basketball ball, and try to get into an NCAA team." The scholarship is open to people attending 2nd-year highschool as of this October 06, loves b-ball, is born after April 2nd '89, and has parental consent. Application forms will be availalbe in January 2007.

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

Manga top 10 according to Tohan.

1. Vagabond vol.24
2. Nodame Cantabile vol.16
3. Boku no Hatsukoi Kimi ni Sasagu vol.5
4. B.O.D.Y vol.8
5. Beniiro Hero vol.9
6. Fate/stay night vol.2
7. Detroit Metal City vol.2
8. Skip Beat! vol.14
9. Vinland Saga vol.3
10. Blade of the Immortal vol.20

A new Iron Wok Jan manga from Shinji Saijyo will begin serialization in Weekly Shonen Champion No.50, on sale 11/9. The new series will be titled "Iron Wok Jan: Summit Battle"

According to the latest Weekly Jump Early Release Info, a new Bleach artbook will be released on December 4th.

Norihiro Yagi's Claymore (currently being serialized in Monthly Shonen Jump) will be adapted into an anime TV series. More information will be available in the December issue of Monthly Jump, on sale 11/6.

According to Weekly Jump, rumor has it that three current Weekly Jump series will be dropped soon, to be replaced by three new series:

Supposedly 2 established authors will be back (one of them has been out for a while, and the other only recently finished a series), and they will be accompanied by a 'newbie'.

During this year's XII Sal??n del Manga event, which took place in Spain from October 27th to October 29th, many large Spanish manga publishers announced their plans for the upcoming year, as well as new manga titles that will be released in late 2006 and early 2007.

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From Newsarama's Benjamin Ong Pang Kean comes an interview with Tokyopop???s Rising Stars of Manga winner Tania del Rio, who talks about her new book about her new book Mangaka America.