Japan Asks U.S. to Stop Online Distribution of Anime: The Japanese governement has issued a statement asking the U.S. government to stop the online distribution of copyrighted material, which includes anime... will manga be next?

Manga to be Regulated by Child Porn Regulation? A poll from the Japanese Cabinet Office reveals that among 3,000 people, 86.5% feel manga and other works should be regulated by child pornography law.

Star Ocean 2 Artist Criticizes Manga Magazine: Koio Minato, character designer for the RPG Star Ocean 2, is not very happy with Kodansha' Shounen Sirius.

Serialization Update:

Magazine Z December issue (10/26)
Starting:

• "Mobile Suit Gundam: OO" by Taguchi Oto

Afternoon December issue (10/25)
Starting:

• "Vampire" by Itsuki Natsumi

amtt writes: Sushi Bar Manga has now merged with BLAH since well we think it'll speed up releases for both groups and be a little less stress, Also because Rei ( Owner of BLAH ) will be leaving for Boot Camp soon so the SBM team can take over whats going on.

ranmaru writes: *Looking at the current circumstances, Mint Scans won't be able to scanlate for a while, therefore this group is officially on Hiatus.
Thank you for all the support we have received 🙂 *

Just wanted to wish all our Muslim people out there all Eid Mubarak.

New Rival to Scanlation?: A new site called Manganovel has been launched by Toshiba Corporation. The new service provides Japanese manga to its readers, who can then translate the manga into another language, either for free or for a small amount of fee as "reader-translators". Will this new service affect the world of scanlation?

Detective Conan to End? Goushou Aoyama hinted during an interview with Sankei Shimbun that Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed) may be ending soon.

Light Novels to be Adapted into Anime: Three of MediaWorks' light novel series will be animated. They are: "Alison" and its follow-up "Lilia and Trais" by Keiichi Sigsawa (author) and Kohaku Kuroboshi (illustrator), and "Wagaya no Oinari-sama" by Jin Shibamura (author) and Eizou Houden (illustrator).

Jump SQ Releases New Promotional Video: Jump SQ has updated its official website another promotional movie called "Burning!!!", downloadable versions can be found here.

11th Japan Media Arts Festival Nominees: The nominees for the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival has been announced, nominees for the manga category:

• "Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru" by Masakazu Ishiguro
• "Kayo-chan no Nimotsu" by Sumako Kari
• "Aria" by Kozue Amano
• "Yasashii C++ Part 2" by Takahiro Yonemura
• "Chimuchimu Parade" by Shiho Suzuki

Serialization Updates:

Ikki December issue (10/25)
Starting:

• "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga 2.0" by Kentaro Takekuma and Aihara Kooji

Morning No.45 (10/11)
Starting:

• "Angel Bank -Dragon Sakura Gaiden-" by Norifusa Mita

Nakayoshi December issue (11/2)
Starting:

• "Moonlight Himejion" by Moyoco Anno

Ribon December issue (11/2)
Starting:

• "Hikari no Su he" by Fumi Eban

Due to some companies asking for the removal of download links, I have decided to remove all links for licensed series. Please do not report these download links anymore.

Thank you.

staff

Edit: You can still report these releases, but please do not include the download links.

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More news and updates can be found on jCafe: http://jcafe.vnmanga.com/index.php/topic,1858.0.html

The scanlation world is biiig, while we do our best to catch most of the interesting news, sometimes it's easy to miss one or two (or a lot) items. So, if you come across something interesting, feel free to report them to us by submitting the news here!

Also to scanlation groups, feel free to send us news related to your group (as long as they're not recruiting posts or things like "we're starting/dropping this series!", etc.).

- Your friendly MU news team

The latest issue of Windows 100%, a monthly Japanese PC magazine, ran an article on the various methods of acquiring manga raws from forums, websites, and blogs.

Sites featured in the article include jCafe, The Lurker, Manga Helpers, Ritual Scan Forge and more. A scan of the article can be found here.

Thanks to the news-submitter whose name was unfortunately lost due to a small accident

imp_boy writes: Dakku Manga has now closed its doors.