Bulgarian manga, electric M&Ms, and more

David Welsh realizes he missed a few sites on his first tour of the manganet, so he goes back and checks them out. Being even older than David, I totally sympathize with his frustration with websites that make you open a new window to navigate them (Drama Queen, I’m looking at you) or start up some obnoxious flash thing.

Love Manga has the scoop on the three Italian titles picked up by Yaoi Press. Yes, Italian yaoi will be arriving soon. David also has information on the International Manga and Anime Festival in London this fall.

Bulgaria gets its first manga. Thousands rejoice in the streets. Of course, it’s Warcraft, which is not a Japanese manga, but hey, global manga is going global. I look forward, in the next few years, to finding scanlated OBL (Original Bulgarian Language) manga on the web.

Tokyopop website complaint o’ the day: Apparently when they updated they wiped out all their old page URLs, because any link more than a few days old doesn’t work. Which means that if you Google a Tokyopop title, or you’re reading an old blog post or ANN entry, and you click on the link to their page for it, you get a blank page with the sad words “Page Not Found.” Aaaarrrghh! There are ways to prevent this; it took my husband about two days when we changed the URL to this (admittedly much smaller) site. Maybe I should lend him out to Tokyopop.

ElectricSistaHood reviews Clamp School Detectives and finds it pretty sugary but fine entertainment. But it can’t compete with the customized M&Ms they sell at the site!

Ali Kokmen becomes marketing manager of Del Rey. Kokmen was previously Director of Book Sales at CPM.

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Comments

  1. It’s not even that I never open links in new windows. I do it all the time when I’m linkblogging. I just like it to be a choice. Maybe I associate it too much with pop-up spam?

  2. I don’t mind links that open in new windows—that’s convenient when I want to look back and forth. But here’s what I hate: When you go to the Drama Queen home page, all you get is an icon, and you have to click again to get content. What purpose does that serve?

  3. Oh I know your pain and I agree with you. The site did not turn out anything like we wanted it, but since we were on a tight schedule and the site designer made some mistake that anchored the whole site on the left hand side of the browser window (instead of centring it) causing the layout to break in places, we had to compromise. We are currently looking into having the site redone and this time we hope there will not be any more flake jobs, we really try but sometimes things don’t turn out right and it’s too late to do much about it. Lets hope next time we get it right till then please bare with us.

    As for the use of the splash page, I can’t talk for others but in the DQ site case…as said, it has no reason but a fast compromise because of designer issues.

  4. Oh, in that case I sympathize. I’ve had my share of site woes. Fortunately, I married an obsessive web guy who won’t let it go until it’s right.

    My complaint about everyone else’s splash pages and flash animation still stands, though. And music is wasted on me as I usually have my computer on mute.

  5. Warcraft was published here in Israel too, and… It got flipped!! XD
    Now there’s Right to left Warcraft. Yay?
    (We had a flipped Spiderman a while back too.. =D)

  6. I hope we will be able to find somebody like that as well, hell, I’d be happy with somebody that does what they are paid to do. As for flash and music, this is my personal opinion and I agree with you, I usually have headphones on so sites like that really tend to freak me out, I don’t like loud noises taking me by surprise.