Hoaxes on the internets

Katherine Dacey’s Weekly Recon includes this week’s new manga and a handful of short reviews. Ed Chavez trolls the April Previews for manga shipping in June at the MangaCast.

ComiPress translates Shonen Jump editor-in-chief Masahiro Ibaraki’s reminiscences of his 25 years at the helm.

Lea Hernandez clarifies the history of manga in the U.S. (Via Sporadic Sequential.)

What day is it today? John Jakala outlines some possible changes for his site, and someone is impersonating Lillian DP on the internets. And Heisei Democracy is keeping tabs on Japanese April Fool pranks (probably NSFW).

The mountain-climing saga Gaku – Minna no Yama won this year’s Manga Taisho (grand prize), according to ANN, and Yotsuba&! placed second in the voting.

Erica Friedman interviews Tokyopop editor Hope Donovan, who is editing the yuri title Kannazuki no Miko.

Tiamat’s Disciple takes a pessimistic look at light novels. Commenters chime in with more.

Gia wraps up Sakura Con with one final post, a radio interview, and a conversation with Viz about why they weren’t there.

News from Japan: At the MangaCast, Ed Chavez has a podcast up about the Tokyo Anime Fair. High School Debut artist Kazune Kawahara has drawn a bonus episode for Deluxe Margaret magazine. Used-book chain Bookoff has offered to pay over 100 million yen to several writers’ associations to offset losses from used book sales. Kethylia finds two magazines with rather unusual taglines. And sales of Fullmetal Alchemist have passed the 30 million volume mark.

Reviews: Lori Henderson’s daughter Krissy give five stars to vol. 2 of Gon at Manga Xanadu. At Comics-and-More, Dave Ferraro feels Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms didn’t quite live up to all the praise it received. At Active Anime, Davey C. Jones reviews vol. 4 of Strawberry 100% and vol. 11 of The Law of Ueki, and Holly Ellingwood checks out vol. 1 of Haruka Beyond the Stream of Time. Ferdinand is not too impressed with Innocence at Prospero’s Manga. Julie enjoys vol. 7 of Emma and vol. 10 of Tail of the Moon at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Kethylia turns a firm thumbs down on Little Darling. Dan Grendel pulls on the Manga Zubon (manga shorts) at Comic Pants. Connie checks out vol. 14 of Berserk at Slightly Biased Manga. Greg Hackmann reviews vol. 1 of Purgatory Kabuki and Matthew Alexander reads vol. 5 of Purgatory Kabuki at Anime on DVD. Johanna Draper Carlson checks out vol. 1 of Honey and Clover and Ed Sizemore recommends vol. 9 of Tail of the Moon at Comics Worth Reading. Michelle enjoys vol. 3 of Nana at Soliloquy in Blue. Mely’s inner 13-year-old girl enjoys vol. 4 of Vampire Knight more than her mature self at coffeeandink.

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Comments

  1. Heyas,

    Davey C. Jones reviews Vol 4 of Strawberyy 100% , not Strawberry Panic which only has 2 volumes at the minute lol

  2. Fixed. Actually, I was just checking to see if you were paying attention. :)

  3. suuuure you were :P

    have to admit you got my hopes for a few seconds though

  4. Viz.com is holding a “contest” for their staff to create the storyline of Naruto. Contest to be held from April 1 to April 2. XDXD

  5. I’ve got conflicting reports about which LN’s have been cancelled and which haven’t. So I emailed the various companies asking for clarification. So far Tokyopop are the first to reply, and here’s what they had to say on a few titles…

    Kino no Tabi – There is a plan to try to resolve the licensing issue in the next few months, but the issue may still never end up being resolved. I can’t go into any more detail than that.

    Scrapped Princess – It is on indefinite hold and most likely will not come back.

    Good Witch – I can’t say for sure that this is false, because sales have been extremely low. However, it’s currently still scheduled in our internal database for every May and November.

    Slayers – Yes. We had originally only licensed the first 6, then after some fans showed support we licensed the the next two to finish out the first big Slayers arc. They were both released in January, and we will most likely not license any more books.