Lots of stuff was going on while I was getting the site squared away. Here’s the first round:
NYCC is just around the corner, and Ed pulls out the manga events to make our lives easier.
Shaenon Garrity has a new Overlooked Manga Festival up for your reading pleasure. This week she takes on the salaryman sampler Bringing Home the Sushi and provides a celebratory trot ’round the page for Kekkaishi, which just won the Shogakukan Award in Japan.
Hey publishers! Dave Carter lists some manga he’d like to see in English. (Via Precocious Curmudgeon.)
The German manga Gothic Sports, by Anike Hage, has been licensed for the U.S.
Another MangaCast special: the weirdest of the weird from Comiket.
Manga: Coming to a cell phone near you? A company called Celsys is trying to bring manga to cell phones in the U.S. and other countries.
The Yaoi Review dispels the myths about yaoi fangirls and checks out a couple of new releases.
Completely Futile blogger Adam Stephanides takes a look at vol. 1 of Partner, a shoujo manga turned thriller by Kodocha manga-ka Miho Obana.
Sequential Tart interviews Yaoi Press founder Yamila Abraham.
There’s a preview of the Witchblade manga up at PopCultureShock. The colored pages actually don’t look so bad, but those covers—yeesh. And what’s with Top Cow’s logo? Could they be any more blatant?
Could Berserk be ending soon? Simon Jones passes along a rumor, along with the news that Tokyopop may be republishing a title from the now-defunct Raijin magazine.
Wow, before I saw that video, I actually believed there might be some yaoi fans that are normal looking and don’t have internet disease. Boy was I wrong.
Ai, I wish people stop slamming Witchblade. Just because it’s based on a Western IP doesn’t mean it should be a translated property. It aimed at the core audience pretty well and it has to be special to be noticed. Special being shocking. Not my genre but I hope it sells well.
Ninja, there’s plenty of other immature anime forum for you to troll. People here are just too mature to buy your act. I think everyone in the Western manga business reads this blog. Not many young fans unfortunately.
Tivome, Witchblade has the ugliest and most anatomically improbable cover I have seen in a long time. I don’t care where it comes from, it’s just plain horrible.
Brigid, I guess you really haven’t seen a lot of these “mature” manga covers yet. :) Trust me, it’s a very normal and even kinda reserved cover. I really hate to see more of these type of manga showing up in the West… I think you’ll be more than disgusted with most of them. There’s a segment of “men’s manga” in which extreme sexuality and violence is common place. I don’t think many of these has reached here yet. Titles like Ikki Tosen and TenTen are for kids… they barely count as being violent in THAT genre.
Haha yeah right, this is like the slashdot of the anime industry I’m sure.
It’s not like I hate yaoi fans, but the video didn’t convince me of anything. If they had say, Deval Patrick, Pamela Anderson, Bill O’Reilly, Eric Bauman and Yoko Matsugane, then I’d be reconsidering my stereotypes.