It's finally Christmas over here in California~ Yay for all of you that celebrate!

A few weeks ago, we said that Shugo Chara! would be ending (with chapter 48), but it's not over yet! It'll be continued in Shugo Chara Encore! in February. As to why, we haven't got a clue yet...

Christmas gift to all of you that love that series

Source: http://prettyanon.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/the-future-of-shugo-chara/#more-909

This poll was suggested by our member Di27. The whole point of this poll is to choose the option you'd prefer in the situation that YOU can choose that the original source reads left to right / right to left. As in would you prefer everything to be always done left to right, just like American comics? Or the reverse where everything is like manga?
The issue is if you could draw and create your own stories, would it read left to right or right to left?

(And I'm gonna bet over 90% of the people who vote in this poll will never understand the actual reason for this...and will instead vote for "right to left" because it's "pure")

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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=15613

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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you get annoyed when manga is called "comic"?
Choices:
Yes, they're different! - votes: 4033 (39.7%)
Bothers me, but I ignore it - votes: 2115 (20.8%)
But they ARE comics! - votes: 1827 (18%)
Not bothered at all - votes: 1621 (16%)
Have heard it so often that I'm immune - votes: 561 (5.5%)
There were 10157 total votes.
The poll ended: December 19th 2009

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KuroKishakai, who scanlated some xxxHolic has closed its doors citing business in real life calling

To sum up what's written below (which I personally cannot confirm since I don't read Japanese...), apparently there will be one more volume of Nodame Cantabile! (Now wouldn't that be nice?) Unfortunately, I can't confirm that it's true for myself (and none of the translators I know are on hand right now). Perhaps some knowing person can enlighten to me that it's true or not?

Ev3 writes: Hello minna-san ^^ piece of good news for the fans, Nodame first new chapter was released 10th December!
Even though volume 23 is the final, there will be one more tankobon volume.
http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/magazine/index.php/02292
here the link of Kiss magazine web page with Nodame on the cover! With a very cute dress! ^^
From the cover the new arc is called "Nodame cantabile encore, opera hen" 😀
Yeah! hopefully we will see the big end everyone was waiting for in chap 136 !

Graphic novels...
Last of our mini-series of what we call anime and manga.

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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=15517

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Question: Do you get annoyed when manga is called "anime"?
Choices:
Yes, they're different! - votes: 6812 (51.9%)
Bothers me, but I ignore it - votes: 3048 (23.2%)
Not bothered at all - votes: 2006 (15.3%)
Have heard it so often that I'm immune - votes: 863 (6.6%)
But manga IS anime! - votes: 386 (2.9%)
There were 13115 total votes.
The poll ended: December 12th 2009

Glad that we agree that they're different

As a sort of follow-up, our member Xuan suggested this poll. This one is probably gonna be a lot less common than anime/cartoons, but I've personally heard it more than once. I mean, come on, how do you get confused between something that's a video and something that's on paper?

An easy poll for next week would be to do the manga/comics pairing

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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=15381

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you get annoyed when anime is called "cartoon"?
Choices:
Yes, they're different! - votes: 6383 (41%)
Bothers me, but I ignore it - votes: 4000 (25.7%)
But they ARE cartoons! - votes: 1935 (12.4%)
Not bothered at all - votes: 1915 (12.3%)
Have heard it so often that I'm immune - votes: 1337 (8.6%)
There were 15570 total votes.
The poll ended: December 5th 2009

To the people who chose "But they ARE cartoons!", you better be joking...

PS: Good luck to all of you college students with finals. I got 2 on Monday, 1 on Wednesday, and 1 on Friday...

The very elusive group Stage Storm is closing its doors today. However, not all is lost! A new group called Barcarolle is rising up from the ashes, and the good news is that they won't be as secretive! Barcarolle is planning to continue all of Stage Storm's former projects except for Glass Mask. But you're still in luck! Shi-Ki is planning to continue Glass Mask, so you guys (girls) will still get your shoujo fix.

Shoujo series Shugo Chara! will be ending in next month's issue of Nakayoshi (published by [sitelink=publishers.html?id=100]Kodansha[/sitelink])

Taken from AnimeNewsNetwork

This new poll was suggested by our member tactics. I guess the custom of calling anime "cartoons" is more prevalent in the US, but it also depends on the area you live in. Like for me, I live in a predominately Asian neighborhood, and we all "know" the difference between anime and Saturday morning cartoons. (And just to say this, but nowadays, the Saturday morning cartoons aren't that great. Remember the good old days? And it was only like 5 years ago...)

You can discuss this poll on our forums here:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=15249

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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: Do you read any other comics / graphic novels outside of manga?
Choices:
Manhwa and manhua... - votes: 5403 (45.2%)
Yes, I love them all - votes: 2785 (23.3%)
Only pure manga for me - votes: 1644 (13.7%)
Some strips in the funny pages (newspaper) or web comics - votes: 1613 (13.5%)
The American stuff - votes: 516 (4.3%)
There were 11961 total votes.
The poll ended: November 28th 2009

Not too many people read the American stuff. Which is sad, since some of that superhero stuff is good too.