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Some Recent Interviews:

Tokyopop to Offer Manga Videos Via V CAST: ICv2 reports that "Verizon announced that the Tokyopop video channel, which offers 15-20 four-to-six minute videos every week, is now available to Verizon's V Cast Video customers."

Takehiko Inoue's "Last Exhibition": A Takehiko Inoue exhibition called "Final Exhibition" will take place at the Ueno Royal Museum from late May to early July. More artworks and promotional material can be found here.

Various 2007 Year-End Reports:

Active Anime Top 25: Active Anime asks the fans to vote for their favorite website in its Active Anime Top 25, unfortunately scanlation sites are not allowed 🙁

Posted by Gum on 
January 9th, 2008 1:34pm PST
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Serialization Update for December and Early January

Many popular series coming to an end...

Series Ending:

Weekly Shounen Sunday No.4-5 (12/26)
Ending:

  • "Zatch Bell!" by Makoto Raiku

Comic Blade April issue (2/30)
Ending:

  • "Aria" by Kozue Amano

Monthly Comic Blade March issue (1/30)
Ending:

  • "Beyond the Beyond" by Yoshitomo Watanabe

Monthly Shounen Gangan
Ending:

  • "Papuwa" by Ami Shibata

Young Magazine No.52
Ending:

  • "Imouto Wa Shishunki" by Tozen Ujiie

Series Starting:

Monthly Comic Birz March issue (1/30)
Starting:

  • "Doro Neko 9" by Saki Okuse

Monthly Shonen Ace March issue (1/26)
Starting:

  • "Yume-Watari Pulcinella" by Kendi Oiwa (artist of Welcome to the N.H.K.)

Monthly Shonen Champion February issue (1/18)
Starting:

  • "Let's Play More Baseball!" by Iwasawa Masahiro

Young Gangan No.3 (1/18)
Starting:

  • "Violinist of Hameln Shchelkunchik" by Michiaki Watanabe

Weekly Shounen Magazine No.6 (1/9)
Starting:

  • "Tetsuwan Blake" by Tomohiro Shinohara

Dragon Age February issue
Starting:

  • "Cherry X Cherry" by Yoji Sorimura
Posted by Gum on 
January 4th, 2008 6:19pm PST
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With New Year Comes New Poll

Thanks go to Sin on our IRC channel for the new poll idea. We had a similar poll on the forum somewhere...but now it's time for us to see what the masses say!

Previous poll:
Question: Did you give/receive manga during this Christmas season?
Yes - votes: 1087 (28.3%)
No - votes: 2748 (71.7%)
There were 3835 total votes.
The poll ended: January 1st 2008

I was expecting "No" to win, but I can't believe over 1000 people either gave/received manga over Christmas! We sure are getting to the community~

Posted by lambchopsil on 
January 1st, 2008 9:52am PST
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Happy New Year!

From all of the staff at MangaUpdates, we want to wish you a happy new year!

Posted by Manick on 
December 31st, 2007 11:00pm PST
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MangaShare & Binktopia Merge

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*

Posted by lambchopsil on 
December 26th, 2007 4:07pm PST
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Christmas Poll!

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)

Posted by lambchopsil on 
December 26th, 2007 8:14am PST
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Happy Holidays!

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.

Posted by mellowmut on 
December 23rd, 2007 10:24pm PST
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DN Angel is back from hiatus?

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!

Posted by lambchopsil on 
December 23rd, 2007 2:28pm PST
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Eid!

Apparently it's Eid today! Kind of a late notice from me, but happy Eid, everyone (for those who celebrate it)!

Posted by lambchopsil on 
December 20th, 2007 9:51pm PST
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New Viz Licenses found on SimonSays.com

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.*

Posted by lambchopsil on 
December 8th, 2007 7:20am PST
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