NYCC followups, best-sellers, and more

Del Rey announced at NYCC that they would be publishing King of RPGs, a shonen manga written by manga expert extraordinaire Jason Thompson and illustrated by Victor Hao. Jason gives the lowdown at his LJ and it already has its own website, with some nice concept art.

Speaking of NYCC, Deb Aoki posts the most thorough account I have seen so far of the Del Rey panel, along with a comprehensive report on the Seling Good Graphic Novels (& Manga) in a Bad Economy panel, which was one of the most worthwhile panels in the whole show (part 1, part 2)

At Fujoshi Librarian, Snow Wildsmith actually contacts DMP to check out some manga that are listed on Amazon.ca but not on Amazon.com or DMP’s own website. Turns out there’s a perfectly logical explanation.

The first volume of Becky Cloonan’s East Coast Rising garnered some nice reviews, but like many of the Tokyopop global manga projects it seems to have fallen into limbo. Cloonan, who has a number of other irons in the fire, updated impatient readers on the status of volume 2 yesterday, letting them know that she’s still working on it and waiting for things to work out with Tokyopop.

I’m a bit late with this, but Rocket Bomber has the numbers for online manga sales in the week ending Feb. 1: rankings summary, emerging trends, and new releases and pre-orders. Also, this info is now available as a newsletter!

Sequential lists the top 30 comics and graphic novels in Canada for the past week, and Naruto puts in a pretty respectable showing.

Fruits Basket translators Athena and Alethea Nibley discuss some of their most difficult translation challenges at Manga Life.

News from Japan: MangaCast brings us the weekly manga rankings from Taiyosha, and ANN has the Oricon chart. Legendary director Hayao Miyazaki will create a two-part series about airplane designer Jirō Horikoshi for Model Graphix magazine. The anime Sora Kake Girl is spawning two manga series in two different magazines. And Nodame Cantabile will be back in Kiss magazine in March, after manga-ka Tomoko Ninomiya’s hiatus to have a baby and recover from carpal tunnel syndrome.

Reviews

Joy Kim on vol. 10 of After School Nightmare (Manga Life)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 2 of Ballad of a Shinigami (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Julie on vol. 4 of Basilisk (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Julie on vol. 12 of Chibi-Vampire (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Julie on vol. 7 of Crimson Hero (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Andrew Wheeler on Disappearance Diary, Travel, and The Quest for the Missing Girl (ComicMix)
Tiamat’s Disciple on books 1 and 2 of Dog Eaters (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Cynthia on Double Trouble (Boys Next Door)
Cynthia on Future Lovers (Boys Next Door)
Kris on Gaba Kawa (Manic About Manga)
Erica Friedman on vol. 5 of Gunsmith Cats Burst (Okazu)
Kris on Heaven’s Will (Manic About Manga)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 2 of Higurashi When They Cry (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Julie on Hot Limit (MangaCast)
Emily on Kimi no Tonari de Seishunchu (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Maka-Maka (Okazu)
Kris on vol. 1 of The Manzai Comics (Manic About Manga)
Julie on vol. 3 of Minima! (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vols. 1-7 of Mirai Nikki (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 6 of Moon Boy (Kuriousity)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of My-Hime (Okazu)
Julie on vol. 1 of The Name of the Flower (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Tangognat on vol. 1 of The Name of the Flower (Tangognat)
Julie on vol. 2 of Nightmare Inspector – Yumekui Kenbun (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Julie on vol. 1 of Oishinbo – A la Carte (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Eimly on Oretachi ni Ai wa Nai (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Rob Vollmar on Phoenix: Karma (Ramble On)
Matthew J. Brady on vol. 1 of Pluto (Warren Peace Sings the Blues)

Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of Pluto (The Comic Book Bin)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 1 of Pumpkin Scissors (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 1 of St. Dragon Girl (Manga Life)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 4 of Sand Chronicles (Manga Life)
Alex Hoffman on vol. 1 of Shaman King (Comics Village)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 15 of Tail of the Moon (Manga Life)
Casey Brienza on vol. 1 of Variante (Kethylia)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 6 of Yumekui Kenbun Nightmare Inspector (The Comic Book Bin)

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Comments

  1. Really loved DMP’s Knight’s vol 1 by Minoru Murao and contacted them back in december about vol 2 which was originally to be released in Oct. They said it has been postponed to late 2009 and apologized for not having a specific release date.

  2. Thanks for the Canadian content!! Great organization and information as always!

  3. Um, yeah… what I accidentally appended to the previous post… only more-so as the link is actually here… -_-;

    Anyway, thanks! Always ‘preciate the linkages.