barbapapa writes: *NISHI Yoshiyuki's Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation and KONOMI Takeshi's Prince of Tennis (both published in English by Viz Media) are both ending in issue #14 of Weekly Shonen Jump, on sale in Japan March 3rd.

Mr. Fullswing's SUZUKI Shinya is starting a new series in issue #16 of Weekly Shonen Jump, called "Bari Haken".*

Edit: Corrected an issue number for the magazine

We are happy to announce a little contest here! We're planning to spice up the look of the site a little, so we are announcing a

Mascot Contest

Go here to read the rules: http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=4274
That means if you have not registered on the site already, you must register in order to post your design in that topic.
The winning design will be used as officially as a mascot, and posted everywhere on our next version of the site
Good luck to everyone!

Yay! New poll! We're still gonna try new weekly polls for now. This interesting one was given by our member reanimated838uk. If you wanna submit your own poll suggestions, post in here: http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll:
Question: If you worked on a real manga series, which job would you choose?

Choices:
Advertiser - votes: 200 (3.7%)
Publisher - votes: 205 (3.8%)
Translator - votes: 538 (10%)
Artist - votes: 881 (16.4%)
Story/Script Writer - votes: 1408 (26.3%)
Editor - votes: 758 (14.1%)
I'd rather read manga for fun - votes: 1373 (25.6%)
There were 5363 total votes.
The poll ended: February 23rd 2008

A pretty close race there. I guess many people think they can write better stories than the existing series out there...

Anonymous writes: *Production has "slowed" but continues for Eden

Dark Horse editor Phillip Simon has announced on the Dark Horse forums that while production on Eden has slowed, he has received the "green light" to proceed with production on volumes 11 and 12 of Eden.

Volume 10 will be released this May, however no dates have yet been announced for volumes 11 and 12. They are currently working on the translation of volume 11.

In October, Simon suggested that if sales of Eden did not support a quarterly release, the manga might be shifted to a bi-annual (twice a year) release.

Eden was named "Manga of the Year" (2007) in the January issue of Wizard Magazine.*

Taken directly from Anime News Network

We have a new poll about the job you would take to produce a manga! Vote vote vote~

Previous poll:
Question: For the usual series you read/watch, which of the following do you usually do?

Choices:
Download from the first group that releases - votes: 6277 (42.7%)
Wait for the best quality release - votes: 2069 (14.1%)
Faithfully follow certain groups - votes: 4154 (28.3%)
Do not care - votes: 2202 (15%)
There were 14702 total votes.
The poll ended: February 16th 2008

As I expected, most people read from the first group that releases. That means for all those Bleach/Naruto groups, whoever releases the newest chapter first wins. I pity Maximum7...
(But as for me, I faithfully follow the groups I love~ Maybe it's because I've worked for a lot of the groups I like...)

Magnum writes: *Kodansha's Rando magazine has confirmed that AYAMINE Rando (the mangaka of Get Backers) will begin serialization of a new work which will begin in April in a Kodansha's Rival magazine. The new manga will be called Holy Talker.

KISHIMOTO Seishi (666 Satan) is also planning his own new series, but no further details are available at this time

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork *

Edit: Corrected some information. Thanks go to barbapapa

As we ARE a site about a very important type of Eastern entertainment, we should celebrate a little bit with the holidays over there too! It's the New Year based on the Lunar Calendar (Chinese New Year to most people). I believe it's the year of the rat...

PS: For the record, I AM Cantonese (a type of Chinese)

Issue 11 of Weekly Shonen Jump, which will go on sale February 9th, will come with a special chapter of Death Note, written by Tsugumi Ohba and drawn by Takeshi Obata. The one-shot will take place after the events from the original Death Note manga.

Due to some requests, we have added the Harem genre to the database! This includes the traditional definition of harem and also the reverse-harem. Our current description of it is as follows:
A series involving one male character and many female characters (usually attracted to the male character). A Reverse Harem is when the genders are reversed.

If you have a better description, go ahead and post it for us in the news comments, and we'll consider changing it to yours!

Last but not least, if you know of any series that fits the Harem genre (by our definition), please edit that series to include the new genre. Thank you all for helping us complete the best manga database on the internet!

PS: This also does mean you can now filter or highlight series with the harem genre

According to the the following source is seems Hunter x Hunter is slated to return in issue 14 of Shounen Jump which comes out on March 3rd.

Source: CannedDogs