General Manga News and Announcements

[xi0]

I think I remember reading two different RE oneshots in the past (one was a two-parter I think) and the art is very similar. I wonder if it's the same artist?

[Schabrak]

You mean Biohazard: Marhawa Desire and BioHazard Umbrella Chronicles: Prelude to the Collapse's . It's indeed a full version of the first one drawn by Naoki Serizawa.

[SHINOBI-03]

JManga is now worldwide. Now it's up to Viz to make Alpha worldwide.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...able-worldwide

[Schabrak]

If you visit their site you will see that they've only got eight shounen titles, they use mostly unknown series because they aren't published in the us or europe, with the manga from WSJ/WSA it's a completly different case. One can dream, but I give up on this one.

At least non-mainstream[and maybe not original] manga will get more attention around the world this way.

[k-dom]

Unknown does not mean non-mainstream. I've not read in detail but I'm not sure the titles are pretty original.

[Kaiten]

Vagabond to return March 15.

Vagabond will return as a monthly with new chapters released on the third Thursday of every month. Chapters will be twice as long as they were before. Vagabond will be on the cover of the March 15 issue of Morning, with color and 44 pages.

[Animeace]

Black lagoon Manga to return

http://13xs.blog93.fc2.com/

Manga author Rei Hiroe has recently blogged that he is currently planning on bringing back action manga Black Lagoon after its prolonged hiatus. A return date has been penciled in, which Hiroe admits is making him nervous. "Though I'm dying to draw, I'm scared to actually draw it. If it were not this hard, I wouldn't have had to take as long as two years off."

Hiroe also posted a Black Lagoon-based interpretation of the Thai flooding



FInallllllyyyyyyy hellll yesssss you dont know how long i've waited for this I had started to give up hope Revy and Rock are back!

---------- Post added March 12, 2012 at 10:10 PM ---------- Previous post was March 08, 2012 at 10:08 AM ----------

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Manga to End in 9 More Chapters

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-more-chapters

This year's 15th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine is announcing on Wednesday that Kôji Kumeta will end his Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei within nine more chapters. Barring any delays or skipped weeks, the manga will end in May.

[Crude]

Hope that means that there's going to be a new season of the Zetsubou-Sensei anime then. I'm also interested in seeing what the mangaka will work on next (provided he does work on something next).

[k-dom]

Another Parisian event this week-end.
Japan is the guest of the Salon du Livre, as a consequence the manga section is a bit bigger than usual
More info here for those interested
The mangaka invited are

• Moto HAGIO, she is a reference for Shoujo also I must admit I know very few of her work, still it's a big name.
• Taku NISHIMURA (Jean-Paul NISHI), seems to be a Japanese Guy Delisle
• Mari YAMAZAKI the author of Therma Romae

[MattC302]

I wish I lived in France. They license so many more interesting manga than American publishers do.

[k-dom]

I wish I lived in France. They license so many more interesting manga than American publishers do.

Yes France is the paradise for comics :-) but there is worse than US.
Billy bat 2 first volumes were released this week, I think this will finally push me into Urasawa/Nagasaki last work.

[dagnel]

Yes, in France and in Italy you can find a lot of mangas. :-P

[OPN]

i think this is a fitting place to post this
the akira creator will be doing a new shonen manga in a certain shonen mag (WSJ?)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-in-shonen-mag

[Negative Syndicate]

I bet Otomo going to serialize his new shonen manga in Shonen Magazine since his past works were serialized in Kodansha.

[TXC]

With a lot of series ending there, its also more likely. Not a fan of akira though.