NinjaBuzz Staff writes: *Due to a numerous spam attack and cyber stalking over the last year by a user whom simply identifies themselves as Stephan Fry, Ninjabuzz will stop distributing the Naruto Anime and Manga series by January 1st 2008, this will give the users in our community time to adjust with the cease and removal of all Naruto releases from NinjaBuzz, it will also allow our affiliates time to find new consistent sources for distribution purposes.
NinjaBuzz sincerely thanks all affiliates whom continued supporting our releases over the last couple years. NinjaBuzz whom were formerly NarutoBuzz successfully made over 100+ releases of the Naruto Manga and every episode of Naruto Shippuuden to date. We thank everyone that enjoyed our releases, and could care less what the leechers with shameless comments can and will say. We are now endorsing MangaShare as an alternative source for Naruto Manga and obviously Dattebayo will now be the only group doing the Anime consistently yet again. We would just like to state that this decision was not rushed.
The Cyber stalker/Hacker/Spammer has made numerous attempts to contact members of the NinjaBuzz team, he has hacked the server gaining remote access (1 week ago) and has continued a massive spam attack against us. Just so you know the government created internet watchdog groups would not give the time of day to deal with a matter such as ours and because of that and us honestly being tired of all the crap are effectively stopping the releases. Keep in mind we are not closing NinjaBuzz.com, it will still recieve news and updates and hopefully become a media outlet like Narutocentral, however that is all and if the attacks continue the website will be taken offline as well.
You can find more information regarding our closure at www.ninjabuzz.com*
We've been getting a little...lax on the poll...Time to spice it up a little with some randomness! (Although it's not all that random...) If you wanna discuss about it, visit this thread!
As for our last poll, here are the results:
Question: What kind of news are you most interested in seeing?
US Manga News - votes: 476 (4.9%)
Japan Manga News - votes: 2860 (29.1%)
Scanlation News - votes: 5618 (57.3%)
Industry News - votes: 213 (2.2%)
Otaku Culture - votes: 645 (6.6%)
There were 9812 total votes.
The poll ended: October 22nd 2007
As expected, most of you guys would love to hear about scanlation news. But for that to happen...we need some submissions from scanlation groups! If you have a piece of manga news for us, give it up to our prying eyes!
tsubasa_gaki writes: Today is Aku Tenshi's 7th grand year of running, many thanks to staff and readers for all the support through out these years~ May there be yet another properous year of scanlations to come!
Happy Thanksgiving to all those that celebrate it! Don't get too fat eating all the food though.
And I give thanks to all our fabulous scanlation groups that give so much manga to us~
Illuminati-Manga is now two years old! Also, their forum has reopened after some problems...May this scanlationa group (and all other ones) continue to bring us our manga in English!
So happy birthday Illuminati-Manga! And of course, there are several releases to commemorate the occasion~
The search feature is currently being updated. For now, you can go to the individual section that you want to search, and use the "Quick Search" feature at the bottom of the page.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Going out to all those out there that celebrate this day in one form or another. If you're going out trick or treating be sure to be safe out there and beware of opened candy! Or if you're dressing up for some Halloween party we here at MangaUpdates hope you have fun out there. Or if you're simply staying home tonight and awaiting all the new releases that come out today then enjoy as well ;p
Bakemono scanlations is going on a hiatus because the staff is busy with real life issues. We hope to get things back up around Christmas. Expect to hear from us again in the future. Thanks to all you fans for supporting us all this time.
See you around!
Ginenbijnoam
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.
