AnimeAnime is currently running a column called "100 Questions About Anime & Manga Overseas," where Japanese fans send in their questions about the foreign Anime and Manga scene. One of the questions asked was "How does the scale of the U.S. manga market compare to Japan's manga market?" Below is a translation of the response:

Hi, It's Romi, again.

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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

A new light novel label from Enterbrain called B's-LOG Bunko will start next month (14/10/2006). This label will be aimed at female audience, and there will be BL light novels published under this label.

According to this post, uncollected chapters of CLAMP's X that did not make it into Tankobon format will appear in the upcoming CLAMP Newtype (PLATINUM) special issue of Newtype.

Source: AoD

Shogakukan is set to release a retrospective of classic manga titles from 1945 to 2005, on October 30th. Titled The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Manga (English title: literal Japanese title is Modern Manga Museum), it introduces roughly 700 titles from 4 eras (1945-58, 59-69, 70-80, 81-2000 and 2001-2005) along with brief excerpts from the manga and publication data. It also includes a mangaka index, manga chronology and complete list of publishers' award winners.

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Tatsuya Fujiwara (24), who plays the role of Light Yagami in the upcoming movie "Death Note - The Last Name," appeared at a DN press event held on 9/20. Despite the recent series of unfortunate events surrounding Death Note, the release date of the upcoming movie will not be affected -- not only will the movie premier in Japan on November 3rd, but it will also be released in Hong Kong and Taiwan on the same day.

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A new project on Lament of the Lamb (by Kei Toume) will be presented at this October's Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG), to be presented by Tokyopop's Stu Levy at TPG in October.

Source: ANN

Manga top 10 according to Tohan.

1. Nana vol.16
2. Honey and Clover vol.10
3. Detective Conan vol.55
4. One Piece vol.43
5. Angel Heart vol.20
6. Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE vol.16
7. Air Gear vol.15
8. Ouran High School Host Club vol.9
9. Cross Game vol.5
10. Hayate the Combat Butler vol.8

With this month being Kochi-Kame's 30th year of serialization in Weekly Shounen Jump, Mainichi sits down with the artist of Kochi-Kame and talks about what it's like being the creator of the longest running manga series.

Everyone in Japan knows "Kochi-kame," the shortened nickname of "Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo" (This is the police station in front of Kameari Park in Katsushika ward). This September marks the 30th anniversary of Kochi-kame???s serialization in Weekly Shounen Jump, a competitive battlefield of popular manga series. Today Kochi-Kame has 151 volumes in circulation, with over 135 million copies sold.

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