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16-year-old Port Moody artist and entrepreneur creates manga iPhone/iPad appVancouver Sun (blog)Misa Amane, a character in Death Note, a manga and anime series, piqued Rohrick's interest. “I sta more…

50 best covers of 2010Comic Book ResourcesNote: While last year's list included five manga covers, this year features none. I'm not sure whether that's a byproduct of the contraction of th more…

Comic Book Resources2010: The results are in!Comic Book ResourcesViz, the top manga publisher, had 1.4% of the dollars and less than 1% of the unit share, which is about where they have been in previo more…

GizmagCES: NEC dual-screen Android Cloud CommunicatorZDNet UK (blog)You'll want that much storage if you're going to fill it up with ebooks and manga the way NEC expects you to. It will ship w more…

Bleeding Cool NewsComics Sales Trends In 2010Bleeding Cool NewsAnd then there is Twilight Manga – and the continual success of the likes of Naruto, One Piece, Bleach and more, even as the manga mark more…

Eminem attracted to 'Random Acts of Violence'Entertainment Weekly… You liked Pineapple express, well im fresh, naa im fresher like fran dresher, smoke the gange, eat eat manga manga, spaghet more…

ManiaInuyasha Manga Concludes US Run Next WeekManiaVIZ Media has announced the release of the final installment of Rumiko Takahashi's longtime bestselling manga (graphic …and more » more…

SkySportsHoffenheim have no contact with absent striker BaMonsters and Critics.comLa Manga, Spain – Hoffenheim continue to have no contact with their striker Demba Ba and have had no offers for the pl more…

GANTZ Gets Hollywood Premiere As Live-Action Adaptation Of Hit Manga Gets …TV.comGANTZ, a live action film based on the hit manga of the same name, will play in 334 theaters across America – inclu more…

Ichiroh! Vol. #03ManiaIchiroh! is a 4-koma manga that is much more long form than the 4-koma omake I am used to. This may be part of the issue I had with this manga; … more…

MobyLivesManga mangled — or improved?MobyLivesIn a move that few who follow the Godzillian manga industry in the West saw coming, the city of Tokyo has restricted sale of certain kinds of manga. … more…

Final volume of Inuyasha manga lands next weekExaminer.comThe final volume of the Rumiko Takahashi manga which follows the story of a modern day schoolgirl who is pulled into Japan's ancient past, more…

ManiaLevel E Anime Gets Final Crunchyroll NodManiaThe series is based on a three volume manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi that finished way back in 1997. Togashi is largely known as the creator behind more…

1st Live-Action Gantz Film to Get Hollywood PremiereAnime News Network… that it will host a special event in Hollywood for the January 20 world premiere of the first live-action film based on Hiroya more…

Libraries offer winter activityHollandSentinel.com13: Manga and Anime Club meets. Discuss books. Refreshments. Fiction — “The Outlaws: A Presidential Agent Novel” by WEB Griffin and William E. B more…

Comic Book ResourcesWhat do women want? Part 1Comic Book ResourcesErica Friedman, who publishes and blogs about yuri manga (romances featuring two women), got so fed up recently with Marvel and DC act more…

Inside Social GamesManga Castle Goes Retro With Social Mechanics in Magic CastleInside Social GamesSeveral months back, we touched on a Singapore-based startup called Manga Castle. It took that long f more…

CNNGo.comManga/Anime's Tiger Mask Inspires Another Gift-GiverAnime News NetworkDate is the alter ego of Tiger Mask , a manga/anime pro wrestler who fights for children in an orphanage. About 200 k more…

La Manga Resort offers chance at fantastic 5-star tripThe 19th Hole Report.com (press release)Golfers across the north of England have the chance to win a fantastic trip to the five-star La Manga Club more…

British Columbia teen releases own iPad appFinancial PostThe teen-aged entrepreneur was frustrated with the manga instructional resources available to her, so she resolved to teach herself the skill b more…

Fan groups turn out for yearly Ohana FestivalHonolulu Star-AdvertiserMangaBento, the group of anime- and manga-inspired artists, will have several make-and-take craft projects, including "ema&quo more…

Higurashi: When They Cry Vol. #07 Manga ReviewManiaWhen the minister of construction minister's grandson disappears amid protests against the dam project in Hinamizawa, … more…

Metro Minute with Awesome Japanese StuffMetro Canada – TorontoThey're like Manga-induced hallucinogenic brain explosions. That's why Cubeshops, at 11 Baldwin St., makes us giddy. The store beh more…

Jason Thompson's House of 1000 MangaAnime News NetworkMushi-shi ("mushi master") is a spooky, strange, wistful manga about bizarre life forms—if you can even call them life forms—in more…

Hampton halts Kittanning's Class A winning streakAmerican ChronicleWith no timeouts, Jaila Manga found space to hit the game-winning shot. Manga led Burrell with 17 points, and Danielle Konopski a more…

Critic's Picks: Manga in 2010Publishers WeeklyIt was simultaneously a year of contraction and expansion for manga as the industry saw a few more of its traditional manga houses fall off … more…

Comic Book ResourcesNegima creator working with Google on online manga siteComic Book ResourcesManga creator Ken Akamatsu (Negima, Love Hina) has been pioneering an interesting business model: Putting more…

Bleeding Cool NewsAnkama To Publish Original Japanese Manga In FrenchBleeding Cool NewsIn Ankama's case, they're going to publish a manga magazine. Featuring original manga work from Japanese more…

Comic Book ResourcesComics AM | Borders executives resign, manga leads NYPL listComic Book Resources[BSI Comics, ICv2.com] Libraries | Four of the top five young-adult titles checked out from the New more…

New Manga Gallery: New Manga to Due to Debut in '11Manga.about.comNow that 2011 has begun, it's a good time to look at the coming attractions you can expect to see in the manga section of your more…

Manga Review: Kamisama Kiss Volume One by Julietta SuzukiSeattle Post IntelligencerA teen-rated fantasy romance, Juliette Suzuki's Kamisama Kiss (Viz/Shojo Beat) opens on a fairly bleak note: hero more…

Penn Olson2700 Gamers Join Manga Castle per dayPenn OlsonManga Castle, a manga-style Facebook social game start up has launched MagicCastle just three weeks ago and is attracting 2700 gamers each day. more…

Cumberland Courier NewspapersManga, gaming and more at the Camden and Narellan librariesCumberland Courier NewspapersActivities for youths aged 12 and 18 include a computer programming workshop (Narel more…

Will Manhwa Catch Manga?The DiplomatThe manga (or comic) business in Japan is BIG business. It's worth billions yearly (an estimated $3.6 billion in 2007) and its wide appeal …and more &raq more…

Austin Chronicle (blog)Ikkicon Opens New Years Eve in AustinExaminer.comCosplay is when people dress up as some of their favorite characters from manga, anime, and video games. Cosplay is an art form more…

ManiaDance in the Vampire Bund's Ninth Manga Volume Sells OutManiaVolume 9 of Dance in the Vampire Bund debuted on the New York Times Manga Best Seller List at #8 (December 6-12) and moved up to # more…

Boycotters to hold own 'anime' fairThe Japan TimesKadokawa Shoten publishes the "Haruhi Suzumiya" teen novel series, which has been turned into a popular manga and TV cartoon series. more…

New York TimesJapanese Universities Draw Foreign Students With MangaNew York TimesZack Wood, a Stanford graduate, enrolled at Kyoto Seika University in Japan to study manga, the popular comic form. Th more…

3animeBleach Chapter 432 Manga Scanlations Released3animeWe finally have the news with Bleach Chapter 432 Manga Out. Lets get a quick view on what we have for this week. Bleach has been released a bit more…

The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography (Penguin)Play by PlayHe uses a manga style similar to Osamu Tezuka with clean, expressive linework, supported by half-tone textures. Cartoony faces mix with real more…

US manga plans unfold for 2 Japanese publishersHonolulu Star-AdvertiserBack in July, Square Enix launched a manga portal at www.square-enix.com/na/manga, from which visitors could read the first chapt more…

Comic Book BinSquare Enix Opens North American Digital Manga Online ShopComics AllianceWhile it's not quite as robust as Viz Media's iPad app, Multimedia company Square Enix has launched a new more…

Mainichi Daily NewsBright Japanese forms, and darker meaningsBoston GlobeAnime, Manga, Comics and Their Influence on Contemporary Art,'' a frothy but unexpectedly deep exhibit, explores the or more…

Japanese Manga Industry Threatens to Take Legal Action Against AppleComics AllianceApple's iTunes store is kinda like Wolverine. It's the best it is at what it does, but what it does isn't more…

Comics AM | Spider-Man musical delayed again? Tokyo manga restrictionsComic Book Resources[Livejournal] Awards | David Welsh suggests manga worthy of nomination for the 2011 Eisner Awards. [Precocious more…

Telegraph.co.ukSparks Fly as Tokyo Fights Racy MangaWall Street JournalTOKYO—A battle has erupted between the normally placid manga community and Tokyo's conservative governor over a new law tha more…

IndieMoviesOnlineGoro Miyazaki to Adapt Manga KOKURIKO-ZAKA KARA for Studio GhibliCollider.comGoro Miyazaki, son of legendary director Hayao Miyazaki, plans to adapt the 1980s manga Kokuriko-Zaka …S more…

Manga Review: Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D Volume Four by Saiko TakakiSeattle Post IntelligencerThe fourth volume in Saiko Takaki's ongoing manga adaptation of Hideyuki Kikuchi's Va more…

Publishers WeeklyKodansha Announces 11 New (and Not-So New) Manga for 2011Manga.about.comAs part of Books Kinokuniya's Holiday Manga and Anime Festival on Sunday in New York City, Kodansha Comics more…

TFTS (blog)Digital Manga launch manga titles for NookExaminer.comPublisher Digital Manga (DMI) has announced the launch of their manga titles on the Barnes & Noble e-readers, the Nook and Nook Col more…