Newsarama has an interview with George Alexopoulos, who won a Rising Stars of Manga slot and has a new book, Go with Grace, that just came out this month.
Anime on DVD has an early review up of the the CMX title Emma. CMS has been working hard in recent months to redeem themselves from the TenTen debacle, and this title may help rebuild the good will, especially as they have pledged not to censor it. Judging from the responses on this forum thread at AoD, the fans may be ready to give them a chance.
I know I linked to this before, but if you haven’t read the Backstage feature on Anipike yet, check it out. There’s a timeline, interviews, all kindsa good stuff. I particularly like the part where the site crashes because their web host was holding the servers hostage.
Pata has a look at at recent announcements of drama adaptations of our favorite manga. Ikimashou lays on the ‘tude:
Well, if it isn’t the year of the shoujo manga adaptation. This time around the duck-lipped crybabies that will be getting the adaptive treatment are the characters of Nodame Cantabile.