We have a new review for you today, courtesy of shounen_lover.

Check it out One Piece.

For those of you who haven't noticed yet, reviews are now based on user submission. This means that you must be a registered user to submit a review. Any future reviews will be tied to your username, and you should soon be able to edit them as soon as we implement that functionality.

We had a request for and have added a "Gender Bender" genre. If you know of any series that fall under this category, please update the series information! Thanks!

We finally added a new genre called "Josei"!

Here's our B-U description from the genre page:
Literally "Woman". Targets women 18-30. Female equivalent to seinen. Unlike shojo the romance is more realistic and less idealized. The storytelling is more explict and mature.

If you guys know of series that fit this genre, go change the info!

For a list of all supported genres, it's here: http://www.mangaupdates.com/genres.html
If you feel we should add another genre, post in the forums with your argument and we'll look into it.

We have a new manga review out today thanks to quick brown fox!

Check it out here: Girls Bravo

For those of you who tried to register today and encountered problems, they have been fixed. To enable your account, just go to this url:

http://www.mangaupdates.com/signup.html?act=confirm&hash=your_hash

And replace "your_hash" with your authentication hash. It will look something like this:

3d927e37c550436e2952035d62687b3e

Sorry for the trouble.

We have a new manga review out today thanks a bunch to F.A.I.T.H

Check it out here: D.N. Angel

Another detailed manga review thanks to Kaioh!

Check it out here: Get Chu

Today we have a manga review thanks to Kaioh!

Check it out: Hajime no Ippo

Also, just a note that I've altered the registration page. It was a bit outdated and encouraged people not to sign up. I've now changed it to encourage people to sign up! Sorry for the confusion!

We have a new review, submitted by an anonymous user. If the writer reads this, and would like to claim credit for your work, please just reg an account and message me! I'm not sure if this was an accident or not. This is another reason why we're going to move the review system to the users system shortly (so that users can claim and update their reviews).

For your reading pleasure: Azumanga Daioh!

Okay, well this is going to be a long one... Where to start. I had found that lots of users were confused by the comments system. They figured that they could post more than one comment, would post that comment, and find out the hard way that you could only post one. To help solve this problem, I decided to write a forum system that would cater to the individual needs of this site.

As such, every series in the database now has a forum. That's right. If you would like to visit the forum of a particular series, you can visit its info page, scroll down to "forum posts" and visit the forum. You can also access the forums by clicking on "Forums" under "Whats New!" on the menu to the right.

As this is a custom system, there are no doubt tons of bugs everywhere. If you find one, please either post it in the suggestions forum or private message me by clicking on "My Inbox" under the User CP in the menu to the right.

Update Forgot about a few other things. Every user now has a public profile that you can access from the members section of this site. You can also add a signature, avatar, or change your timezone (which should affect most of the site) from your profile in the User CP section.

Update 2 Here's the results of that poll I ran:

Question: Did you go to Otakon 2006?
Choices:
Yes - votes: 97 (5.8%)
No - votes: 1574 (94.2%)
There were 1671 total votes.
The poll ended: August 23rd 2006

So, I saw at least 100 of you guys there maybe!! Awesome. Well, I put a new poll up because I think it's a bit more relavent to current site happenings. Check it out!

Thank you for BU-Staff