Manga News and Information
August, 2006On the USA Today Booklist for the week ending August 20, Viz Media's Naruto Volume 11 makes it to #33, while Tokyopop's Fruits Basket Volume 14 fell to #59. Source: ANN MangaCast has the latest Diamond Previews for September of 2006. Source: MangaCast Naruto and Hellsing have been nominated for the 2006 Quills Award. Users can vote here, winners will be announced on 10/10 in NYC. Source: ANN
PWCW interviews yaoi mangaka Makoto Tateno, author of Yellow. San Francisco, CA, August 22, 2006 - VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies has closed deals with three of the largest terrestrial elevision companies in Latin America for two animated series from Japan: NARUTO and ZATCH BELL!. America TV (Peru) has acquired 52 episodes each of ZATCH BELL! and NARUTO ; TV Globo (Brazil) has acquired 52 episodes of ZATCH BELL! and Televideo Services picked up 52 episodes each of ZATCH BELL! and NARUTO for Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Honduras. Manga top 10 according to Tohan. Bandai Entertainment has sent out a notice today to the fansubs community, warning them to not work on Bandai's upcoming Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society. For a copy of the press release, see below: MangaBlog points out the following press release: Yomiuri Online has posted a review of Studio Ghibli's newest movie, Gedo Senki. Below is a translation of the review. Ikimashou.net has gathered a list of links to various sites with comprehensive Comiket 70 coverage. MangaCast also covers of C70...in podcast form. The Death Note movie began playing in Hong Kong theaters on 8/10. According to reports, the movie took in 1,030,077 HKD (approximately 130,000 USD) in its first day, making it the highest-grossing Japanese movie to ever hit Hong Kong in the past 10 years. According to this post, a person submitted another artist's artwork to the British anthology MANGAQUAKE, which used the artwork as cover for MANGAQUAKE#2. According to the post, the artwork belonged to HOON, a concept and comic artist and the lead artist of MESS STUDIOS. Tokyopop's columnist, Chris Arrant, interviews Takeshi Miyazawa, who is planning to move to Japan and try his hand at becoming a successful manga-ka. Source: MangaBlog Kaori Yuki's Godchild (Count Cain) will no longer be serialized in Viz Media's Shojo Beat anthology. According to Evelyn Dubocq from Viz, "We periodically switch out stories to keep the magazine fresh... Pulling the manga from the magazine lets us put the graphic novels out more quickly." Source: ANN The Korean animation Pucca (or Funny Love) will be aired on the Brazilian Jetix Channel this coming September 11th, to 9:00 p.m. It's an online Sonic fan animation made to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the popular game character. The animation has two dubbings: Brazilian Portuguese and French. There's also a Portuguese version with subtitles in English. Welcome to the new ComiPress, the site went through quite a few improvements/changes. We will do our best to provide you with the latest manga news from all over the world, as well as rankings, special features, and more. Release calendars and a new version of the magazine guide is still under construction, so please wait a little longer for that. Fantasista opened a beta version of a free SNS (Social Networking Service) website focusing on manga, titled マンガ読もっ！(Let's Read Manga!), on August 10th. From Papo de Budega comes an interview with VIZ Media Vice President International Carol Roeder. Carol Roeder talks about titles that will appear soon in Latin America, along other informations. MediaWorks will be launching a new magazine titled "Comic SYLPH" this winter. To celebrate Morning's 25th anniversary, a special issue titled Morning 2 will be released on August 10th, which will contain one-shots from mangaka of Morning A special issue of Dengeki Hime titled Marugoto Navel Special will be released by MediaWorks on August 10th. The special issue will contain Navel-related materials such as illustrations and information on works from Navel (SHUFFLE!, Tick! Tack!, Really? Really!, SOUL LINK, etc.) Serialization update from Shounen, Seinen, and other Male oriented Anthologies. The Fullmetal Alchemist anime DVD will be launched in Brazil on October 2nd, according to Focus Filmes. |
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