Thanks a lot for everyone's interest and participation in our latest recruiting campaing. You guys have been great. We're pleased to have recruited some wonder members, who are (I'm sure liked the rest of us) are eager to serve and give back to the manga/anime community.

Baka-Updates Manga is now recruiting. If you are interested, please drop by #baka-updates @ irc.rizon.net and pm Platinum|Star. Don't say hi and leave it like that as I am away most of the time so leave something like "Hi, I am interested in applying for a baka-updates manga position" and I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

Ping Pong writes: Hi! Just wanted to say that in Hana to Yume 2004 Issue No. 24 (December)
on the cover there is Sano and Ashiya (from Hanazakari no Kimitachi E) and their in wedding outfits!! o_O Also, is says something in japanese and Happy Wedding in english after it! Supposedly this manga has already ended. I don't know if this has helped, but I had to let someone know ^_^. Oh, here's the link; it's on ebay, so I'm hoping I can get it...even tho I can't read any japanese ^_^;

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We are currently in the process of recruiting a few Manga Updaters. The difference between this recruitment and simply signing up on the website is not much, except that you will get operator status in our irc channels and will be expected to update on a more regular basis. If this interests you, please come by our new irc channel on irc.irchighway.net and message Platinum|Star.

andr3y writes: This is new website lets you subscribe to selected manga titles and get them emailed to you when the come out. this service is free for every one and is 100% spam free. Your email wont be passed to anybody else. At this point there are only a few manga titels that are offered to subscriber, but there are plans for future expantion.

This sounds like a worthwhile free service to everyone. Please remember to leave feedbacks for this while.

TiD writes: I am offering new scanslation groups the opportunity to host their released chapters on my site. More details on the website.

**We thought this submitted news might be worth while for some of the groups out there. Let us know if you think so too so that we can decide on whether to post this type of news in the future or not.

Thanks to everyone that has been actively taking part in this growing manga community. We would like to make one reminder to everyone that has been submitting groups to us. Please check over our groups database before trying to submit a group. It may exist already. Thanks.

We would appreciate it if everyone would please only sign up for an account under the SCANLATORS submenu only if you are going to help contribute back to the manga community. By registering for an account, we are expecting you to make use of the extra feature. That is we are expecting you to submit releases or groups to help contribute to the database, which in turn manga fans in general will benefit from.

If you are not up for the above, we ask you please not to sign up for an account because it will do you little good. It will only waste our webspace.

**One last notice about email authentication. Please email autheniticate your accounts right after your application. We are almost receiving this daily and we have no choice but to delete your account at that point.

Some users are still not email authenticating. We have no choice but to delete your accounts in those cases. If you are still confused about the steps to activating an account, they are 1. sign up for an account 2. email authenticate. The last step involves us approving the account, but this part is not in your control so don't worry about it.

A reminder that tomorow, August 7, will be the last day for posting previous releases. We would like to ask everyone to stop reporting old releases at that time so August 8 should not have any old releases. We may continue something like this in the future. You can all be assured that you will be notified well in advance if we do.

If you have looked through our groups database, you may have spotted some groups without a channel. Those are not mistakes. They are indeed groups without channels, but they still release their scanlations through their websites. Hope this clears things up.