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Libre Shuppan sending out C&D's

icassop writes: Libre Shuppan has started to send out Cease & Desist letters to individual scanlation groups which include Liquid Passion/Biblo Eros, Bliss, and Attractive Fascinante.

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September 10th, 2010 9:00pm PDT

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New Poll - Translation Quality

This poll was suggested by MewMan. So in general, what's your opinion on the quality of manga translations? This applies to both scanlations and stuff released by publishers. Honestly though, how many of you can actually read the original language and would actually know how good a translation is? We're so critical on things we're not even experts on...

You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20830

You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Favorite Hayao Miyazaki film?
Choices:
Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro - votes: 390 (2.4%)
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind - votes: 862 (5.3%)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky - votes: 555 (3.4%)
My Neighbor Totoro - votes: 911 (5.6%)
Kiki's Delivery Service - votes: 616 (3.8%)
Porco Rosso - votes: 229 (1.4%)
Princess Mononoke - votes: 3215 (19.8%)
Spirited Away - votes: 3785 (23.4%)
Howl's Moving Castle - votes: 3362 (20.7%)
Ponyo - votes: 220 (1.4%)
Never watched any of them - votes: 2058 (12.7%)
There were 16203 total votes.
The poll ended: September 4th 2010

My first memorable exposure was to Spirited Away. It's quite sad that 12.7% never watched any of them...

Posted by lambchopsil on

September 4th, 2010 8:34am PDT

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New Poll - Hayao Miyazaki

This cute poll was suggested by our member sheniccar. No explanation necessary for this one. Ironically, I watched Nausicaa yesterday night...

You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20683

You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Have you played a visual novel before?
Choices:
Yes, and I love them! - votes: 2942 (22.1%)
Yes, just to try them out - votes: 2197 (16.5%)
No - votes: 3416 (25.7%)
What's a visual novel? - votes: 4760 (35.7%)
There were 13315 total votes.
The poll ended: August 28th 2010

Well, it's pretty understanding that a lot of people don't even know what a visual novel is...but hopefully they do know now? And apparently lots of people have at least tried them out before! (And more people like it than not)

Posted by lambchopsil on

August 28th, 2010 6:16am PDT

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The End of Ouran

ichigo_daisuki writes: Ouran High School Host Club by HATORI Bisco will end on September 24 according to Anime News Network:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-08-23/ouran-high-school-host-club-manga-to-end-in-september

Posted by lambchopsil on

August 28th, 2010 5:44am PDT

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Jump News

Anonymous writes: *The series Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar is ending in Weekly Shonen Jump vol 38 (this week's issue.)

Source: http://www.shonenjump.com/e/news/index.html
In other Jump news, One Piece will also be talking a month break starting WSJ vol 39 and returning vol 44 (first issue in October)*

Posted by lambchopsil on

August 26th, 2010 4:59pm PDT

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New Poll - Visual Novel

This new poll has been suggested by our member MewMan. Just choose the choice that best represents your experience with visual novels. If you didn't know, there are visual novels that are not 18+ in nature. For instance, the ones I tried would be the Love Hina one for the GBA and some of Ever 17. I also remember seeing some non-H stuff back in '06 of AnimeExpo.

You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=20513

You can submit poll ideas here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Opinion on manga censoring?
Choices:
Unnecessary and annoying - votes: 6743 (39.3%)
All for it! Think about the kids! - votes: 621 (3.6%)
If it was meant to be for adults, why censor? - votes: 8320 (48.5%)
I don't care - votes: 1463 (8.5%)
There were 17147 total votes.
The poll ended: August 21st 2010

It's pretty obvious that the majority of people don't like censoring, yet it still happens because of laws... Blame all the people lobbying for it.

Posted by lambchopsil on

August 21st, 2010 6:42am PDT

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Aurora Publishing and Manga Factory

Backlash67 writes: *Aurora Publishing is officially out of business; however, former staff members of the company created a new company, Manga Factory. Manga Factory is still selling old Aurora Publishing titles; however, Manga Factory has no affiliation with Ohzora Publishing the Japanese subsidiary of Aurora Publishing. Manga Factory will be releasing their own manga series, as well as, digital and print production services for mobile devices.

Manga Factory currently has one series out, "Teen Apocalypse: GUILSTEIN", Volume 1 [Kindle Edition]

For more information:

Link to MF's newsletter: http://mangafactory.net/assets/nl/20100624/index.html