Jason Thompson Launches Manga Drawing Game Kickstarter
Jason Thompson, author of Manga: The Complete Guide, has a new project. He’s put together a Kickstarter for Mangaka, which he describes as “the fast and furious game of drawing comics”. Currently,...
View ArticleThe World’s Greatest First Love Publishing Schedule Delayed
The World’s Greatest First Love: The Case of Ritsu Onodera was announced last June by SuBLime, and the yaoi community was happy. (The series was announced four years ago from Tokyopop but never came...
View ArticleRead a Substantial Amount of Tokyo Ghoul Online
To mark the upcoming print release of Tokyo Ghoul volume 2, out August 18, Viz has made a substantial preview (over 130 pages) of Tokyo Ghoul volume 1 available at VizManga.com for a limited time. The...
View ArticleComiXology Expands Distribution Monopoly With Two Big Manga Announcements
Kodansha Comics, the manga publisher, has added their entire digital catalog to ComiXology as of today. This consists of 350 volumes of 53 series, including their very popular Attack on Titan, Sailor...
View ArticleSecond Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Out Tomorrow
The second Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus is due out tomorrow in comic shops. The first volume reprinted three of the books for $19.99, and this one does the same, containing individual...
View ArticlePrincess Jellyfish Comes to Print in US
Princess Jellyfish has long been enjoyed by US fans as an anime series. They’re drawn to the story, about a girl geek living in a house full of women devoted to their hobbies, including a manga artist...
View ArticleWill Tokyopop Return? We’ll Find Out Next Year
This summer, news went around that former manga publisher Tokyopop, which stopped printing books in the US in 2011, was returning. Again. For the third time. Tokyopop had a panel at this year’s Anime...
View ArticleFruits Basket Returns to US
Yen Press has announced that they will be bringing Fruits Basket back to the US. The 23 volumes of Fruits Basket by Netsuke Takuya were originally published here by Tokyopop from 2004-2009. It was...
View ArticleKodansha (Vertical) Titles Come to ComiXology
I’m not sure I fully understand the business arrangement behind this, but a number of manga titles published here by Vertical have just become available on ComiXology. You have to look under Kodansha...
View ArticleSchool Judgment Gakkyu Hotei Collection Due February
I enjoyed the chapters of School Judgment Gakkyu Hotei I read in Weekly Shonen Jump last year, so I’m glad to see it will be collected. I should have known that was inevitable, since the story is...
View ArticlePlatinum End From Death Note Creators Available as Digital Chapters
The newest series from Tsunami Ohba and Takeshi Obata, the creative team behind Death Note and Bakuman, is Platinum End. It’s available in English digitally, with a new 99-cent chapter monthly. You...
View ArticleShonen Jump Plus Manga Contest
Shonen Jump Plus (a free digital publication in Japanese) and MediBang (which “provides free digital painting apps and software to illustrators and comic book artists worldwide”) are holding a manga...
View ArticleYotsuba&! to Return in May
What exciting news! It’s been over two years since Yotsuba&! last appeared in English, with Yotsuba&! volume 12 released in November 2013. I adore these light-hearted stories by Kiyohiko Azuma...
View ArticleWhat Did You Eat Yesterday? Returns in May
What Did You Eat Yesterday?, Fumi Yoshinaga’s series about the everyday life of a gay couple, is one of my favorite manga. I love her art, and I love the way the stories revolve around food and...
View ArticleKurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus Volume 3 Contains Good Starting...
Due out tomorrow, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Book Three Omnibus contains a few stories that make for great starting points as it continues the omnibus collected series. This book reprints...
View ArticleLast Day for Discounted SuBLime Titles at Right Stuf
In honor of the just-passed Valentine’s Day, yaoi publisher SuBLime has made its print titles 40% off at the web retailer Right Stuf. That means instead of the normal $12.99 price for the titles,...
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