Recently, a college student bragged in his diary on Mixi (a JP social networking site) about his cheating the subway fare and then arguing with the authorities, or impregnating a junior-high school girl. As a result, the student was criticized and attacked by many internet users, and was later kicked out of school due to the diary entries.

The story, which caught a lot of attention, was adapted into a short manga by a website called "Paint Manga Hokanko" (Manga Preservation House), which creates manga based on stories from around the internet.

The first 26 pages of the manga adaptation of Mushi-Uta has been made available on line by Kadokawa Shoten. The preview can be found here.

Source: Active Anime

Kadokawa Shoten has announced the winners of its 2007 Light Novel Awards as voted by its readers. ANN has a translated report:

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Japanese doujinshi shop Toranoana has launched a new webzine called Comic Holic (ComiHoli). Manga from this web manga magazine will be published in tankoubon form by Fox Shuppan under the Fox Comics imprint.

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MediaWorks will be releasing a new BL information magazine titled CLaCLa in October. According to MediaWorks, the new magazine is a BL catalog magazine aimed at the fujoshi crowd, and will be covering BL manga and novels. CLaCLa's official blog can be found here.

??? A new series from Kei Toume titled Momonchi (????????????) will begin serialization in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits No.40 (9/3). The series originally appeared in Big Comic Spirits as a one-shot in in 2006.

??? Also, the manga adaptation of Ookami to Koushinryou (???????????????), drawn by Koume Keito, and a manga adaptation of the PSP game Wild Arms XF (WILD ARMS XF (???????????????????????? ?????????????????????)), drawn by Karin Suzuragi, will start in the November issue of Dengeki Maoh.

??? Yu Yagami's Those Who Hunt Elves (??????????????????????????????), which originally ended in 2002, will once again be serialized in Dengeki Gao (November issue, 9/27).

??? A new manga titled Itadakitsu! (??????????????????) by Junji Uenishi will begin in Evening No.19 (9/19).

??? Miharu???Rising (????????????????????????), a new baseball manga by Ootani Jirou (mangaka of Shimokita Glory Days), will start in Young Sunday issue 40 (9/6).

Kodansha has posted the results of the 1st Morning International Manga Competition (M.I.M.C.):

Grand Prize Winner ($5,000):

• Kage no Matsuri by Rem (art) and Bikkuri (story) from the U.S.

Second Prizes ($2,000):

• Nigiri Supahero by Liou Ming Law from the U.K.
• Vefurrin by Hwei-Lin Lim from Malaysia

Official commentary is available in both English and Japanese. Anime! Anime! has also posted a report, and ANN has a report in English.

Source: Eigo de! Anime & Manga

An announcement was made in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump (No. 40) that Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter will resume serialization in Shonen Jump No. 45 (on sale October 6th).

Hunter x Hunter went on hiatus in early 2006. In early July, fans petitioned for the return of HxH through a special service website called Letters to the Chairman. In early August, a source from 2ch leaked the news that HxH will be returning "sometime in October."

Also announced in Jump 40 is that volume 24 of Hunter x Hunter will be released on 10/4.

Source: Ultimatum Tidbits

Top 10 manga (8/29) according to Tohan:

1. Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Volume 20
2. Hataraki Man, Volume 4
3. Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 17
4. Bokura ga Ita, Volume 12
5. Air Gear, Volume 18
6. V.B. Rose, Volume 10
7. Zipang, Volume 31
8. Nagasarete Airantou, Volume 11
9. Hana Yorimo Hana no Gotoku, Volume 5
10. Ryuuroden: Kuriuran Nakahara Saga, Volume 1

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MediaWorks has announced (PDF) a new seinen magazine titled Dengeki Kuro Maoh. The new magazine, a special issue of Dengeki Maoh, will be released on September 19th and will be published on a quarterly basis. The circulation of the magazine will be 80,000 issues, and will focus on manga, anime and novels for young men. One of the new series starting in this magazine will be a new Shakugan no Shana manga.

The manga, titled Shakugan no Shana X Eternal song -Harukanaru Uta- (??????????????????X Eternal song ?????????????????????), will be illustrated by Kiya Shii, and story will be based on the 10th volume of the Shakugan no Shana light novel.

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