bozou writes: *Famed character designer and manga creator MIKIMOTO Haruhiko (Macross, Gundam 0080, Aim for the Top! Gunbuster) will be drawing the tentatively titled manga The Super Dimension Fortress Macross the First in the recently revealed Macross Ace magazine from [sitelink=publishers.html?id=94]Kadokawa Shoten[/sitelink]. The January issue (on sale on November 26) of [sitelink=publishers.html?id=94]Kadokawa Shoten[/sitelink]'s Monthly Shonen Ace magazine will make the announcement. Vol. 001 of Macross Ace will debut on January 26, 2009 with 80 pages from Mikimoto's new manga. The manga will feature the star of the original Macross space war romance story that Mikimoto co-created, Lynn Minmay.
The magazine will also feature a tentatively titled Macross Frontier: Secret Visions story from YOSHINO Hiroyuki, the series script supervisor for Macross Frontier.
Source: 2ch
Taken from AnimeNewsNetwork*
bozou writes: *This year's 52nd issue of [sitelink=publishers.html?id=163]Shueisha[/sitelink]'s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has announced on Saturday that three new titles will launch over the next three weeks, including Bokkesan on December 15 by Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation creator NISHI Yoshiyuki. Yamikami Kō Kurayami ni Dokkiri! creator KIMIYA Kaji will start his Meister (Maisutaa) manga about the "new-generation captain" of a soccer team on December 1. Newcomer FUJIMAKI Tadatoshi will launch the Kuroko no Basuke series about a basketball player on December 8, after drawing a contest-winning oneshot manga by that name in this year's 44th issue.
For further news, Mr. Fullswing creator SUZUKI Shinya ends his Bari Haken school gag manga in the current issue. SUZUKI Shinya had just started the manga last May.
Source: Muhyojo
Taken from AnimeNewsNetwork*
As alerted by fellow admin faye, another company bites the dust in the US. The Japanese company Broccoli is closing off its USA branch, completely disappearing by February 2009. Stated reasons include increase in competition and drop on revenue.
Read these for more information:
http://giapet.net/2008/11/19/broccoli-usa-to-close-its-doors/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-19/broccoli-international-usa-to-shut-down-by-year-end
bozou writes: *HOSHINO Katsura takes time off from her Weekly Shonen Jump serialization
This year's 51st issue of Weekly Shonen Jump has announced on Monday that HOSHINO Katsura has put her D.Gray-man supernatural adventure manga on hold due to her health. The magazine has not announced when D.Gray-man will return.
Source: Muhyojo
Taken from: AnimeNewsNetwork*
It seems some people are worrying a little too much about the stolen passwords thing. It is just a precaution to change your password. The forum passwords were hashed, making them very difficult and not worth it to crack.
The most danger you are in is getting spam email or perhaps a virus sent through email.
From Baka-Updates.com:
MangaUpdates was not hacked. Baka-Updates, our sister site, was hacked. [color=red]However, if you use the same password on BU as on MU, you should read this:[/color]
*I have some sad news to tell everyone. Today the Baka-Updates site was hacked by some guy who calls himself YaQJoo. He was able to get the full list of names along with passwords and email addresses. For your safety, please change your passwords on the website and your email account IF YOU USE THE SAME PASSWORD.
In the meantime, we are working on securing the site to make sure this does not happen again. Several pages and site functions will be unavailable for the time being*
Also:
If you got an email from the hacker, it is safe to open, as far as we have found. It only contains a message of gloats...Basically, he hijacked the forum and made himself an admin, enabling him to use the BU admin mass email system.
[color=red]Edit:[/color]
Due to recent events, we decided to upgrade password security over at MU. However, we apparently forgot to edit the password scheme for the confirmation of the old password, which isn't compatible with the new one...Which means that you can't change your passwords for MU! >_>
Manick's asleep right now, so you guys have to wait half a day or so
[color=red]Edit 2:[/color]
The confirmation has been fixed, you should be able to change your passwords now.
News post heavily hijacked by lambchopsil
A poll of my own creation, no matter how sucky it is...Choose your preferred medium that you could read manga on, if all were available to you. (I'm probably missing some choices, but oh well).
[color=red]Edit:
Due to popular demand, the poll has been rephrased to include any language you like, not just your native language[/color]
You can discuss this poll on our forum here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=8779
Previous Poll Results:
Question: What do you think of people that "love" or are "obsessed" with manga / anime characters a little too much?
Choices:
Life is a ***** and I agree with them, 2D beats 3D any day of the week - votes: 1722 (14.3%)
Being a fan is not wrong, but when you love and want to marry them ... you went a little too far - votes: 7460 (61.9%)
Why do you love MY character? He/She is MINE! - votes: 940 (7.8%)
You should never get that obsessed over a someone you can never touch - votes: 1938 (16.1%)
There were 12060 total votes.
The poll ended: November 15th 2008
The majority of people are sane. That's good.
As for the other people, I wish you the best of luck
_<
Yes, I realize that the poll is really long and hard to read this time. No two ways about it. Probably less people will vote on this one since they're lazy and don't wanna read such a long poll...
This particular question was submitted by Chaoswind (with some modifications to the original suggestion).
You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=8671
Previous Poll Results:
Question: Did you cosplay/dress-up for Halloween within the last week?
Choices:
Yup, as someone related to Japanese anime / manga / games - votes: 724 (7%)
Yeah, but not anything anime-related - votes: 1497 (14.4%)
Nope, but I still got tons of candy! - votes: 1433 (13.8%)
Nope, I don't celebrate Halloween - votes: 6736 (64.8%)
There were 10390 total votes.
The poll ended: November 8th 2008
Well, obviously we all knew which choice was gonna get the most votes...But it's still interesting to see the number of people that celebrate Halloween on this site. I'm wondering what you guys dressed up as though...
First off, I'd like to give a shout out to fotc of Dynasty Scans and ami of SCX-Scans. They're two fellow scanlators of mine whom I've met in person at UCLA (my current home community)! Two great people to talk to in and out of class and our anime club (although I feel they're more pro-otaku than I am since I can't read an ounce of Japanese/Chinese to save my life). And there's also anpan of Maximum7, but I haven't seen him since school started because he's so busy...
Perhaps I'll meet more of you guys in the future, eh? AnimeExpo 2009 for sure!
(Or if you're reading this and you attend UCLA's anime club, come meet us! Just pm me about it for more details)
Holiday time, so we have a holiday poll! Pretty straight-forward if you ask me. I'm guessing that most people don't celebrate it though (like me...)
You can discuss all your crazy costumes on our forum!
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=8574
Previous Poll Results
Question: Have you ever stayed up all night reading manga?
Choices:
Maybe once or twice, but I don't do it that often - votes: 4227 (32.7%)
That's how I spend (almost) every night - votes: 1585 (12.3%)
No, I need my beauty sleep - votes: 779 (6%)
Maybe not all night...but just really late... - votes: 6343 (49%)
There were 12934 total votes.
The poll ended: November 1st 2008
Most of us like to read our manga any time of the day, haha
Unwrap all those candies and start chewing! To all you party animals, stay safe and be smart about what you do.
(One of my roommates came in drunk after a party. Another didn't even come back for the night...)
