From all of the staff at MangaUpdates, we want to wish you a happy new year!
Anonymous writes: *In possibly the quickest conceived and executed merger of all time, we’re excited to announce that Binktopia and MangaShare will be joining forces to provide you with weekly manga scanlations. The new group’s name will remain Binktopia, and all new releases will continue to be done from MangaShare.com
Naruto, Bleach, D.Gray-man, and One Piece will continue to be released on MangaShare, but with Binktopia’s lineup, we’ll see several other series (in no particular order) like Psyren, Fairy Tail, Eyeshield 21, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Gantz, Claymore, Berserk and Gintama.
This deal made a lot of sense for both parties, so it happened.
Original article can be found here*
As Christmas is over (mostly...), let's change the poll again! Simple enough question about your manga experience during Christmas.
As for the previous poll:
Question: ...?
Lust - votes: 5004 (36.2%)
Gluttony - votes: 607 (4.4%)
Envy - votes: 1478 (10.7%)
Sloth - votes: 1440 (10.4%)
Greed - votes: 1542 (11.2%)
Wrath - votes: 1461 (10.6%)
Pride - votes: 2295 (16.6%)
There were 13827 total votes.
The poll ended: December 26th 2007
So Lust won! I guess that explains all the hentai, yuri, yaoi, etc...And for all those who didn't know, the choices are related to the seven deadly sins (and the Homunculus in Full Metal Alchemist)
Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Festivus, or whatever other god fearing holidays there are this time of year! Well whatever holiday/tradition it is you're celebrating over the next few days (or have been celebrating over the past few days/weeks) hope you enjoy the abundance of manga releases that usually occur around this time of year. Some groups/people seem to have started early if you've been paying attention. Well of course manga isn't what's really important this time of year but the gist of it is enjoy time spent with family and friends. ANd hopefully get some time off work/school. Be safe out there and take care. We here at MangaUpdates and BakaUpdates wish you and yours all the best! May the next few days (at the very least) be kind to you.
bozou writes: According to SUGISAKI Yukiru's (the author of DN Angel) website, the series will continue again starting again on December 22, 2007 after a long haitus (that has lasted for over two years). As before, the series will be serialized in Asuka, the monthly shoujo magazine of Kadokawa Shoten.
Note: Apparently the blog was updated November 22, 2007, but no one reported it to us...so sorry for the late news!
Apparently it's Eid today! Kind of a late notice from me, but happy Eid, everyone (for those who celebrate it)!
barbapapa writes: *Wanted by HINO Matsuri link
Black Lagoon by HIROE Rei link
Rosario + Vampire by IKEDA Akihisa link
COWA!, a one-volume book by TORIYAMA Akira link
Cat Eyed Boy by UMEZU Kazuo link
I saw some other titles I've never heard of there too, so shoujo fans, go check it out.*
NinjaBuzz Staff writes: *Due to a numerous spam attack and cyber stalking over the last year by a user whom simply identifies themselves as Stephan Fry, Ninjabuzz will stop distributing the Naruto Anime and Manga series by January 1st 2008, this will give the users in our community time to adjust with the cease and removal of all Naruto releases from NinjaBuzz, it will also allow our affiliates time to find new consistent sources for distribution purposes.
NinjaBuzz sincerely thanks all affiliates whom continued supporting our releases over the last couple years. NinjaBuzz whom were formerly NarutoBuzz successfully made over 100+ releases of the Naruto Manga and every episode of Naruto Shippuuden to date. We thank everyone that enjoyed our releases, and could care less what the leechers with shameless comments can and will say. We are now endorsing MangaShare as an alternative source for Naruto Manga and obviously Dattebayo will now be the only group doing the Anime consistently yet again. We would just like to state that this decision was not rushed.
The Cyber stalker/Hacker/Spammer has made numerous attempts to contact members of the NinjaBuzz team, he has hacked the server gaining remote access (1 week ago) and has continued a massive spam attack against us. Just so you know the government created internet watchdog groups would not give the time of day to deal with a matter such as ours and because of that and us honestly being tired of all the crap are effectively stopping the releases. Keep in mind we are not closing NinjaBuzz.com, it will still recieve news and updates and hopefully become a media outlet like Narutocentral, however that is all and if the attacks continue the website will be taken offline as well.
You can find more information regarding our closure at www.ninjabuzz.com*
We've been getting a little...lax on the poll...Time to spice it up a little with some randomness! (Although it's not all that random...) If you wanna discuss about it, visit this thread!
As for our last poll, here are the results:
Question: What kind of news are you most interested in seeing?
US Manga News - votes: 476 (4.9%)
Japan Manga News - votes: 2860 (29.1%)
Scanlation News - votes: 5618 (57.3%)
Industry News - votes: 213 (2.2%)
Otaku Culture - votes: 645 (6.6%)
There were 9812 total votes.
The poll ended: October 22nd 2007
As expected, most of you guys would love to hear about scanlation news. But for that to happen...we need some submissions from scanlation groups! If you have a piece of manga news for us, give it up to our prying eyes!
tsubasa_gaki writes: Today is Aku Tenshi's 7th grand year of running, many thanks to staff and readers for all the support through out these years~ May there be yet another properous year of scanlations to come!
