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.
silverado writes: As some of you know Manga Underground (MU) ran on wordpress.com. I was notified by Wordpress that my site was suspended due to TOS violations. Our team will take the chance to create a new design for MU and use new technologies. You can help us finding a new host or by creating a new webdesign.
Contact form: http://www.tokyoworld.net/?page_id=4
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.
Scanlation News
Photocopier that Can Translate Manga? According to Gizmodo, Fuji Xerox has developed a new photocopier that can scan an English document and then print a copy of it in Japanese or Korean. The photocopier can also work the other way around, translating from Japanese tp English...a new tool for scanlators?
SnoopyCool Returns The official site of SnoopyCool has been updated with a counter, which suggests that something will happen 40 days from now...according to this post, the group's site will be completely relaunched on October 31st.
Japan/China News
A Union of Mangaka: Yoshida Sensha and Risa Itou got married!
Koukoku no Shugosha Ends: Koukoku no Shugosha (Imperial Guards) by Daisuke Sato (author) and Yu Ito (artist) is ending in the October issue of Ultra Jump (9/19).
Moetan and Shana Manga Preview: Dengeki Kuro Maoh recently launched its official site, which features previews of the new Moetan manga as well as the new Shakugan no SHANA manga.
Manga Doing Well in Hong Kong: According to JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization), manga is doing extremely well in the Hong Kong contents market, with around 60% - 70% comics publishing in Hong Kong being manga.
U.S. News
More E-Readers for Everyone: PW reports that Border plans to expand its relationship with Sony by offering more of Sony's e-book reader in its stores.
Interview Round-up: A brief round-up of recent interviews from various sites:
Network issues from our ISP again. We're sorry for the downtime.
It will probably happen some more, so we're just warning in advance.
Staff
