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
Series Ending/Ended:
Blue Drop Tenshi no Bokura (Champion Red) 1/19
by YOSHITOMI Akihito (creator of Eatman)
Wild Life (Shounen Sunday) 1/23
by FUJISAKI Masato
Sola (Comic Dengeki Daioh) 2/21
by ABENO Chaco
Towards the Terra Aoki Kōbō no Kiss (G Fantasy) 2/19
by HAYASHI Fumino
Ai Kora (Shounen Sunday) 2/6
by INOUE Kazurou
Series Starting:
Punisher (Shounen Champion) 2/7
by SADOGAWA Jun (creator of Noodle Fighter Miki)
Yowamushi Pedal (Shounen Champion) 2/21
by WATANABE Wataru (artist for one of the Densha Otoko mangas)
Mado-Fuki Paruku [Oneshot] (Jump Square) 3/4
MURATA Yuusuke (artist for Eyeshield 21)
World 4U [Oneshot] (Jump Square) 3/4
EJIRI Tatsumi (creator of P2! - Let's Play Pingpong!)
Source: AnimeNewsNetwork
Dengeki Comic GAO! magazine plans to end at least 12 manga titles over the next two issues
Following Titles Will End on 1/26:
Getsumen To Heiki Mina (although it will be getting a oneshot side story in the April issue)
Those Who Hunt Elves Returns
Yukanoyu
Vivid Colors
Following Titles Will End on 2/27:
Inukami!
Honoka Lv. Up!
Baccano! 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad
D.H.A
Hyaku-me no Kishi
Knights
Earise
Following titles will switch from Dengeki Comic Gao! (in the March issue) to restart in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine (in the March and April issues):
Shiage ni Tate Ari and the Ef - A Fairy Tale of the Two manga's second story arc will also be ending in the March and April issues.
Source AnimeNewsNetwork
