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MangaBlog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
... Lori Henderson questions the wisdom of replacing Slam Dunk with Tegami Bachi in Shonen Jump. Matt Blind carpet-bombs us with online sales numbers at Rocket Bomber, posting the top 500 selling manga, a summary of rankings, new releases and pre-orders, and emerging trends for the week just ended. Animanga Nation, one of the best review sites around, is adding original web manga to the...
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MangaBlog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
... Athena and Alethea Nibley argue about literal versus idiomatic translations at Manga Life. Matt Blind continues his analysis of last summer’s manga sales with a look at Viz manga and individual publishers’ rankings. Icarus Comics (NSFW) is going to give Google Reader a try. Yet another prosecutor tries to link manga and murder, this one in Perugia, Italy: The prosecutor also made...
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MangaBlog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
... comics sales numbers from the direct market, including their chart of the top 100 graphic novels. Matt Blind continues his analysis of summer online manga sales with a second look at publishers’ market shares and a closer look at sales of novels that are linked to manga, non-fiction titles, and Shakespeare manga. Christmas is just around the corner, and Lori Henderson has a suggestion…...
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MangaBlog (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
... Kremlin Palace! and highlights some new Japanese art-comics from PictureBox. At Rocket Bomber, Matt Blind summarizes last week’s online manga sales and calculates the top 500. This article about concern among adults in Viet Nam that manga is corrupting their children has a very familiar feel to it; I’m sure I linked to it or something like it before. Anyway, it’s worth a look, if...
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MangaBlog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... Tail. ANN notes that vol. 31 of Naruto is at numer 65 on the USA Today Booklist. At Rocket Bomber, Matt Blind reminds us that September is over and Kodansha hasn’t set up their U.S. manga imprint yet. Yamila Abraham of Yaoi Press will be at SitaCon this weekend. The Viz folks remind us that Halloween is on the way by highlighting some of their spookier titles. News from Japan: Young...
