This week marks the 40th edition of MangaBlogCast, and as a special treat, Ed Chavez himself is hosting this week’s show. Check it out to hear news and commentary about new licenses, seinen sales, and more. Links after the cut.
Anime Expo draws to a close
Advanced Media Network coverage of the Dark Horse panel
Anime Online on DrMaster panel
MangaCast new title round-up
Manga: No Boyz Allowed?
Kethylia on seinen
David Welsh on seinen
David Welsh on the age question
The urge to surge
ICv2’s Anime and Manga Guide predicts record number of new titles
Netcomics makes the move to manga
Netcomics adds Yaoi Press titles and Japanese manga to its lineup
Great job Ed!
Great work on the manga blog cast, and congratulations on reaching 40 episodes! Wow! It was nice to hear Ed as a guest host, it brings a different slant to the podcast.
I was very interested to hear the discussion of seinen manga and the problems related to it, although none of it was news as such. As a big fan of seinen I’m also very conscious that it’s a dwindling market in the west, and these titles need to be universally appealing and/or perhaps packaged differently if they’re to succeed.
Making male-centric content accessible to females is obviously the way to sell though – Sweatdrop’s ‘Blue is for boys’ anthology sells to as many females and males, which we expected and planned for from the outset.