The anime/manga con season kicked off this past weekend with SakuraCon, and both Yen Press and Dark Horse showed up with some new manga titles to announce.
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News from SakuraCon: 'Hatsune Miku,' 'Kingdom Hearts' Manga Announced
Posted 4/2/13 10:30 am EST by Brigid Alverson in Manga
Wave Of 'Dragon Ball Z' Energy Attacks Sweeping Japan
Posted 4/1/13 2:30 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Anime, Manga
This Week's New Manga: Mechs and Magical Girls
Posted 3/29/13 10:45 am EST by Brigid Alverson in Manga
We have a deluge of new titles this week, with some classics—"Sailor Moon" and "Mobile Suit Gundam: Origins"—sharing shelf space with some cheeky newcomers, including a new "Durarara!!" series.
Let's kick it off with Volume 10 of "Sailor Moon," which sounds as action-packed as, well, every other volume of "Sailor Moon": Read More...
'Suicide Club' Director Sion Sono Adapting Manga 'Tokyo Tribe2'
Posted 3/27/13 5:09 pm EST by Charles Webb in Manga, Movies, News
According to Asian Media Wiki, the director of the violent/introspective/mysterious "Suicide Club," "Noriko's Dinner Table," and "Love Exposure" is tackling Santa Inoue's manga about warring gangs in the streets of Tokyo.
The Manga Life: A Chat with Masakazu Ishiguro and Masahiro Ohno
Posted 3/27/13 12:00 pm EST by Brigid Alverson in Manga
Young King Ours may not be as well known as Shonen Jump, but as manga magazines go, it has spawned some popular series, including "Hellsing," "Trigun Maximum," and "Excel Saga." Its tagline is "The Most Eccentric Manga Magazine," and while critic Erica Friedman thinks that's a bit of an overstatement, it is true that Young King Ours is the home of some wacky stories.
One of those stories is the delightful "Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru," often abbreviated to "SoreMachi," the story of a high school girl, Hatori, who works in a seaside cafe with a collection of goofy characters. It's a cafe comedy with a bit of story to it, drawn in a clear-lined, expressive style by manga-ka Masakazu Ishiguro, and it has been adapted into an anime released by Sentai, "And Yet the Town Moves."
Unfortunately for English-speaking readers, "SoreMachi" is currently published only by the digital manga service JManga, which will shut down on May 30. However, we have a preview of the manga below, which will stay up, and before it disappears altogether I wanted to post the lively interview I had at New York Comic Con with Ishiguro and his editor, Masahiro Ohno. Interviews with manga creators and editors tend to be frustratingly shallow (my favorite color is yellow, I collect interesting fabrics) but Ishiguro and Ohno really cut loose in this interview and talked frankly about their lives in the business. Read More...
This Week's New Manga: From The End Of The World To Your Anime Club
Posted 3/22/13 10:41 am EST by Brigid Alverson in Manga
It's a very slow week for new manga releases, but we have two very different titles that are worth a look. This might be a good week to catch up on some long-running series—or save your money for next week's onslaught of new titles from Yen, Vertical, and Kodansha Comics.
Was Fincher's 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' An Inspiration For The Major's New Look In 'Ghost In the Shell: Arise?'
Posted 3/15/13 4:22 pm EST by Charles Webb in Animation, Anime, Manga, TV
Earlier this week, Crunchyroll ran a series of pages from the recently-released manga tie-in to the four-part animated "Ghost in the Shell: Arise" which will debut in Japanese theaters in June.
The piece points out that, in the manga, at least, Major Kusanagi's design seems to have been inspired by Rooney Mara's look as Lisbeth Salandar in David Fincher's remake of "The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo." We think they have a point.
Miike's Next Manga Adaptation 'Arcana' Has Its Ghost Talking Heroine
Posted 3/15/13 2:30 pm EST by Charles Webb in Manga, Movies, News
Actress Tao Tsuchiya ("Ultraman Zero: The Movie," "Tokyo Sonata") has taken the lead of an amnesiac who can talk to ghosts in director Takashi Miike's next upcoming feature "Arcana."
One of the great experiments in digital manga came to an end yesterday when JManga announced that they are shutting down its online manga site. They stopped selling points yesterday; readers who have points in their accounts can still buy manga until March 26, but no one will be able to access their manga after May 30. JManga is refunding unused points in the form of Amazon gift cards. Its sister site JManga7 has already shut down.
New Manga For The Week Of March 13: It's Deja Vu All Over Again
Posted 3/13/13 10:42 am EST by Brigid Alverson in Manga
This week we get a fresh look at three series that have been around for a while, with new volumes of Ai Yazawa's "Paradise Kiss," CLAMP's "Tokyo Babylon," and the classic mecha story "Neon Genesis Evangelion."
This week brings a lot of new manga: A new series in the Blood world from Dark Horse, some fresh volumes of Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat stalwarts, more Alice, and the third volume of Heroman, a manga created by Stan Lee and brought to life by BONES.
This Week's New Manga: The Mensches of Haruhi Suzumiya
Posted 3/1/13 11:44 am EST by alversob in Manga
It's the last week of the month, and that means it's time for a blizzard of new releases from Yen Press, with one new volume from Kodansha.
Let's kick off the week with yet another volume set in the Haruhiverse: "The Misfortune of Kyon & Koizumi." If you have ever read "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya," or watched the anime you already know Kyon; he's the nice-guy narrator who is generally on the receiving end of Haruhi's demands. Itsuke Koizumi is a bit more complicated. Even if you're new to Haruhi, this one-shot spin-off is an easy read, just a collection of short comics and drawings about the guys of the SOS Brigade.
This Week's New Manga: 'Kitchen Princess,' 'Lizzie Newton,' And Fun With 'Neon Genesis Evangelion'
Posted 2/22/13 10:00 am EST by Brigid Alverson in Manga
There's not much on the shelves for newcomers to manga this week—every new release is either halfway through a series or a riff on a classic. Still, there's plenty of good reading here, and it comes in generous servings, too, as most of this week's new releases are omnibus editions.
Monster Girls, Game Wars, And Satoshi Kon: More New Manga Announcements
Posted 2/19/13 10:00 am EST by Brigid Alverson in Manga
The new manga license announcements keep on coming, and it's looking like this will be a good year.
The big announcement came at last weekend's Katsucon, where Vertical marketing director Ed Chavez announced that Vertical has licensed "Tropic of the Sea (Kaikisen)," by the late Satoshi Kon, who is best known as the director of "Paprika," "Tokyo Godfathers," and other well-regarded anime. Kon began his career as a manga artist, and "Tropic of the Sea" ran in Kodansha's "Young Magazine" in 1990. It's a fairly classic sort of story about a seaside town where the locals have a sort of understanding with the mythic people of the sea, until developers come in and turn everything upside down. Watch for it in September; it looks like Vertical will publish it as a single volume, which is how it appeared in Japan.
Toy Fair 2013: New Sailor Moon Figure Revealed
Posted 2/15/13 4:43 pm EST by MTV Geek in Anime, Manga, Toy Fair, Toys
Sure, we don't know when it'll be released. And this is not the final, finished product. But still, at Toy Fair, we wandered passed this little lady in a glass case at the Tamashii Nations booth, we had to snap a pic to share with you.
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