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Title: MangaBlog
Writer(s): Brigid
URL: http://www.mangablog.net/
Feed: http://www.mangablog.net/?feed=rss2
Indexed since: 01/29/2007
Description: News, reviews, and interviews about all things manga.

10 Latest Entries from MangaBlog:

MangaBlog

10/14/2008 08:02 AM EDT

New comics and Digital procrastination >>

Japanator posts this week’s new manga and anime releases. Hazel looks at October manga releases as well at Anime Infatuation. Diamond listed some Digital comics as cancelled this week, but don’t panic: they are just postponed. ANN has the list. Lori Henderson checks out the manga previewed in the October issues of Shojo Beat and Shonen Jump [...]
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MangaBlog

10/14/2008 07:04 AM EDT

Share your thoughts on yaoi >>

I recently got an e-mail from Mara Blair, a grad student at the University of Colorado in Boulder who is doing a survey of yaoi readers for her thesis. Here’s what she has to say: My name is Mara Blair and I am a graduate student in Japanese Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. [...]
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MangaBlog

10/13/2008 02:38 PM EDT

Tokyopop talk, free online manga, Go Nagai speaks! >>

Posting late today after a busy weekend. Fortunately, there’s lots of news going on! Above the fold: ICv2 talks to Tokyopop director of marketing Marco Pavia (part one, part two) about the manga market in general, Tokyopop’s situation in particular, and their deals with other publishers. Below the fold, but still interesting: Tokyopop has plans in [...]
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MangaBlog

10/13/2008 11:45 AM EDT

News alert: Iowa man prosecuted for owning allegedly obscene manga >>

I’ll have the regular news post up later today, but this deserves a post of its own: Christopher Handley, an Iowa man who collects manga, is being prosecuted under the PROTECT Act simply for owning manga that the government claims are obscene. ICv2 has a good summary of the case, plus a follow-up, and here’s [...]
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MangaBlog

10/09/2008 07:55 AM EDT

Quick updates >>

Isaac Hale of Manga Recon attended Yaoi-Con, and he was disturbed by some of what he saw. On the one hand, as a gay male he was happy to be in a gay-friendly environment. But: Many of the cons main events were they “Bishonen Bingo”, the “Continental Bishie Brunch”, the “Bishonen Auction” and the “Bishonen Spanking [...]
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MangaBlog

10/08/2008 10:10 AM EDT

Short and sweet >>

Over at Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Kai-Ming Cha chats with Vampire Hunter D creator Yoshitaka Amano. And vol. 31 of Naruto tops the October best-sellers list. David Welsh picks the best of this week’s new releases at Precocious Curmudgeon. Ed Chavez takes a look at a manga about the founder of the Yoshinoya Beef Bowl chain at [...]
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Series: Naruto

MangaBlog

10/07/2008 08:02 AM EDT

CMX chat, more real girls, and Jason Thompson’s manga cameo >>

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit down before you start reading the Manga Recon roundtable on CMX. It’s an in-depth look at their manga line and marketing by a group of mangaholics with widely varying tastes. CMX isn’t as well known as the big boys, but they publish a very nice line of [...]
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MangaBlog

10/06/2008 07:42 AM EDT

Yaoi, yaoi, yuri, more yaoi >>

Gia interviews Thuy Duong, the president of the new manga kid on the blog, Yaoi Generation. And she has a quick summary of Yaoi-Con for those who don’t have a lot of time to spend reading the news. The Boys Next Door blog posts the list of new licenses and release dates as well. If [...]
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MangaBlog

10/05/2008 12:19 PM EDT

Review: Kasumi, vol. 1 >>

Kasumi, vol. 1 Story by Surt Lim Art by Hirofumi Sugimoto Rated T, ages 13+ Del Rey, $10.95 Kasumi is an interesting hybrid, a global manga written in English by an American writer and illustrated in Japan by a Japanese artist. People often seem to be surprised to hear that it’s an OEL (original English language) manga, even after they [...]
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MangaBlog

10/03/2008 07:14 PM EDT

PR: New titles from Go! Comi >>

Go! Comi tends to go with what’s familiar; if they pick up one series by a manga-ka, they will probably publish more. So it’s not too much of a surprise that they would pick up two more series from Ryo Takagi, creator of The Devil Within. The new titles are Get the Moon and Bran [...]
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MangaBlog

10/03/2008 05:01 PM EDT

PR: Ponent Mon at SPX >>

Small Press Expo takes place this weekend in Bethesda, Maryland, and as if there weren’t enough good reasons to go, here’s another: Stephen Robson, the genial editor-in-chief of Fanfare/Ponent Mon, will be there. And he will be raffling off a set of their graphic novels. F/PM publishes some of the most interesting manga around, and [...]
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Blog info for MangaBlog

10 Latest Entries from MangaBlog:

MangaBlog

New comics and Digital procrastination >>

MangaBlog

Share your thoughts on yaoi >>

MangaBlog

Tokyopop talk, free online manga, Go Nagai speaks! >>

MangaBlog

News alert: Iowa man prosecuted for owning allegedly obscene manga >>

MangaBlog

Quick updates >>

MangaBlog

Short and sweet >>

MangaBlog

CMX chat, more real girls, and Jason Thompson’s manga cameo >>

MangaBlog

Yaoi, yaoi, yuri, more yaoi >>

MangaBlog

Review: Kasumi, vol. 1 >>

MangaBlog

PR: New titles from Go! Comi >>

MangaBlog

PR: Ponent Mon at SPX >>

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