Alright guys, here's the deal. I've changed the series comments so that they're user account based now. This means that you will have to register an account and login to comment. This also means that you will be able to update your comment in the future, since you can only add one. This is a small step to some larger changes that will be coming soon. I will also be changing the news and review comments to reflect this as well.

Question: How much fanart do you like packaged with manga releases?
Choices:
None, keep it separate - votes: 2408 (39.9%)
1 or 2 of the best - votes: 2188 (36.3%)
The more the merrier - votes: 1439 (23.8%)
There were 6035 total votes.
The poll ended: August 15th 2006

Okay! So, seems like most people don't want it, but a lot of people are willing to have 1-2.

The next poll is related to that news posts from a few days ago. I guess I have to make it a poll or I'll never get a response! :-p

Update: Since there have been people complaining about this, I'm going to clarify what I meant. I meant to say that the first option got the most votes. However, as some of you have pointed out, the majority of people if you add it up would like a little fanart.

Hey all, I added a "Serialized In" to the series section. For those of you who know the publication that a manga was serialized in, you can feel free to update the corresponding section. Thanks!

lambchopsil writes: There will be a new anime series called "Negima!?" to be aired in October. The director will be Akiyuki Shinbo and it will be produced by Shaft and GANSIS. This will be an original work, not based on the manga series by Ken Akamatsu, but it will contain the same characters and settings.

In addition to this, there will be a manga adaptation of "Negima!?" that will start in November in the monthly magazine "Comic Bonbon." The mangaka for this new manga will be Fujima Takuya of Essentia. Unfortunately for most fans, "Comic Bonbon" is meant for all ages, so in other words, this will not contain the fanservice seen in the Ken Akamatsu's "Mahou Sensei Negima!"

As a note, Ken Akamatsu's manga series "Mahou Sensei Negima!" is still continuing.

For the latest information, visit the AQS forums at http://s4.invisionfree.com/aquastar/index.php

Well, I decided it was about time we started moderating series comments. We had gone through some of the more popular series and seen a lot of foul language, spoilers, etc. While we respect your right to have an opinion, we decided to draw the line for some comments. Let me tell you, after the staff and I (mainly lambchopsil and I) got through all 3000 or so in the database, we can tell you it's a LOT cleaner than it was. I hope this helps the community and helps make our site a bit friendlier. From now on, comments that have not been moderated will have a warning in bold right above the comment text stating this fact. Comments will usually take a day to be moderated, at which time this warning will disappear.

Thank you all, and we hope you continue to support the site!

Hey all!

I went to this years Otakon and thought it was pretty good. There were a lot of really nicely done cosplays, and the general mood of the convention center was very high. For those of you who cosplayed, awesome job! Saw the FMA movie with the few thousand or so other people.. That was quite an experience.. never watched an anime with so many other people before.. especially screaming fans.. haha. Went to a lot of panels, saw a bit of the masquerade (which was awesome btw), and the fan parody show. I was pretty impressed with how large of a convention it was and how many people were there. Might end up going to ACEN next year, not sure if I'll have time, but who knows. It was definitely worth the trip.

Until next time! Post a comment here if you went!

We no longer require users to pass an approval process for joining the site. (this means if you tried joining and were rejected before, you can try registering again!) Originally this was meant to be a scanlator only system, where only group members updated their information. Now, we've decided to open it up more to the public so that anyone can join and help the community. We're sorry if your account was not accepted in the past because of this reason, but you can register now with no strings attatched.

Relatedly, we've changed the user account system to add user groups. Members joining the site (or some members, based on whether you've ever edited a series or author before) are added to the "Members" group. This user group can add groups or releases via their User CP. You can however request to be in the higher level "Updaters" group, by trying to edit a series, author, or adding a series or author. This will let you edit series/author information. The approval process is very easy and requires you to give a short reason why you want the upgrade. (This is explained on the request page).

These changes are precursors to further changes that we are going to implement in the future. We also hope that now no one gets angry enough to send us all the hate mail we used to get for rejected accounts. (Believe me, we get lots... somehow)

Either way, the changes are mostly superficial. Because there are new possible features we will be adding in the future, we encourage everyone to sign up! Who knows what lies down the road.

Special Note: To any user that has already been active on our site and contributed in some way, your account is already in the "Updaters" group, so you shouldn't be affected by this.

Thank you,

The Manga Updates staff

PS: If anyone experiences any weird problems, please post them here! Thanks!

Okay, i changed a bit how the associated names work in series, so if you search using the "Quick Search" box at the bottom of the series section (or click one of the letters at the top), alternate (or associated titles) will come up as results italicized. This is probably a bit buggy, so if you see any problems please report them here.

Update I also changed the way comments work for news articles. So, if you click on the "View" button, you won't see a threaded list of the items anymore, the comments will just be shown after you click the "View" button. This should help reduce the amount of clicks you have to make to see comments.

Sorry about the weird stuff and slow downs happening on the site today for those who noticed. I've been debugging a new caching system. Please disregard all odd ... occurances just for today ;-)

We have a new review today thanks to Mephisto2k!

Check it out here: Zero no Tsukaima