General Manga News and Announcements

[naruto-niichan]

All-Star Creators Mark JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's 25th Year

On Wednesday, the October issue of Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine will bundle a booklet in which an all-star lineup of manga creators celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga. The JoJo 25th Anniversary Book will boast contributions from the following:

• Akira Akatsuki (Medaka Box)
• Osamu Akimoto (Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo)
• Akira Amano (Reborn!)
• Kyosuke Usuta (Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san)
• Tsugumi Ohba (Death Note)
• Takeshi Obata (Death Note)
• Eiichiro Oda (One Piece)
• Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto)
• Tite Kubo (Bleach)
• CLAMP (X, Gate 7)
• Hiroshi Shiibashi (Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan)
• Kenta Shinohara (Sket Dance)
• Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro (Toriko)
• Hideaki Sorachi (Gintama)
• Kazuki Takahashi (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Hiroyuki Takei (Shaman King)
• Ryūhei Tamura (Beelzebub)
• Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter)
• Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball)
• NisiOisin (Medaka Box)
• Tadatoshi Fujimaki (Kuroko's Basketball)
• Yuusuke Murata (Eyeshield 21)

2012 is not only the 25th anniversary of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but also Araki's 30th year as a serialized manga creator.

---------- Post added September 24, 2012 at 10:27 PM ---------- Previous post was September 18, 2012 at 03:12 PM ----------

Blade of the Immortal Manga to End After 19 Years

After 19 years, Hiroaki Samura will end his historical manga Blade of the Immortal (Mugen no Jūnin) in the February 2013 issue of Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine on December 25. The manga launched in the same magazine in December of 1993, and its first 29 volumes have 5 million copies in circulation. The magazine's November issue published the 216th chapter on Tuesday and revealed that the manga will end in the 219th.

[Drmke]

Finally ending huh? Maybe a good time to catch up on Blade.

[xi0]

Whoa! What the hell? I still put off catching up so I have no idea where the story is...that on top of the scanlations not being up to date right? Interesting.

[Newkerzy]

Viz to catch up to Japanese releases... I think.

Well, all I can say is that this is great news for the US readers. Finally, manga is being read the way it should be. But I do hope that MS and other scanlation groups continues to scanlate the Jump series for non-US readers. At the very least, I hope MS can at least block US ISP's.

[crimsonlink310]

Viz to catch up to Japanese releases... I think.

Well, all I can say is that this is great news for the US readers. Finally, manga is being read the way it should be. But I do hope that MS and other scanlation groups continues to scanlate the Jump series for non-US readers. At the very least, I hope MS can at least block US ISP's.

Whoa there we still need Fairy Tail and non Shonen Jump mangas translated. I do agree that the US should no longer have access to the big 3 from MS or other manga sites after Viz catches up to the Japanese release.

They do need to bring over the whole magazine over however in order to be really successful instead of just a couple of the most popular. I wouldn't mind paying more for that honestly.

[kewl0210]

Hah. The guy who wrote the Jorge Joestar novel is writing a manga, huh? In the same magazine as Jojolion? And it's drawn by Oh Great? I wonder how many universes it'll span. I could see it working. This is Oh Great's first new manga since Tenjou Tenge and Air Gear ended, and now he's not writing it.

[You Say]

Kodansha USA licensed Sankarea, No. 6, Tokyo Mew Mew a la Mode and Vinland Saga.
Sources: Kodansha and ANN

They licensed Vinland Saga! Mighty Odin, they sure took their sweet time! I was waiting years for this! I think I just wet my pants but who cares? Tonight, my Viking brethren, we'll plunder in celebration of this good message!

Now, what about Historie?

[cearon]

well according to ann Altima Ace (kadokowa's) has ended publication with the latest issue that went sale thursday.

these r the mangas that have been migrated to other magazines.

Monthly Asuka magazine:

Biblia Koshodō no Jiken Techō by Nakano (based on En Mikami's original story)
Fate/Zero Kuro by mendori (based on Gen Urobuchi and Type-Moon's original story)
Bakudan Handan by Kyōnosuke Yamaguchi (based on Otomate's original story)
Kamakura Deco & Kofu Life by Satoshi Tanaka
Dennō Alice to Inaba-kun by Takumi Fujinari (based on Shinya Kusaka's original story)

Young Ace magazine:

Baka ga Zenra de Yattekuru by Hiroto Ida (based on Hitoma Iruma's original story)
Scissors Sisters by Marico (based on DAIGO x Eiki Eiki's original story)
Kangaero by Mayu Taumi

[Doraku]

Rumiko Takahashi, Others Draw Manga to Support Quake Areas

Rumiko Takahashi (Inuyasha, Urusei Yatsura) and seven other manga creators will release a compiled book volume of specially-drawn one-shot manga stories in March 2013 with all royalties and proceeds being donated to helping restore the areas devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan.

Manga artist Fujihiko Hosono (Gallery Fake, Sasuga no Sarutobi) developed the idea of the "Heroes Comeback" project. Each one-shot will feature a character from one of the artists' previous works. Hosono's one-shot (pictured at right) features the protagonist from his Gallery Fake manga visiting the Tohoku region after the disaster. The first of two chapters of the one-shot was published in the 47th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine on Monday.

After Hosono has his one-shots featured in the 47th and 48th issues of Weekly Big Comic Spirits, the 49th issue will feature a one-shot by Masami Yuuki (Birdy the Mighty) from his Kyukyoku Chojin R manga. The 50th issue of the magazine will then feature a one-shot by Sensha Yoshida (Utsurun Desu).

Other artists featured in the project are:

Kazuhiro Fujita (Ushio & Tora, Bakegyamon)
Takashi Shiina (Zettai Karen Children)
Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist, Silver Spoon)
Kazuhiko Shimamoto (The Skull Man, Anime Tenchō) and Ishimori Productions

Takahashi, Fujita, Shiina, and Arakawa's one-shots will be featured in Weekly Shonen Sunday, and Shimamoto and Ishimori Productions' one-shot will be featured in Monthly Shonen Sunday.

---------- Post added October 24, 2012 at 04:34 PM ---------- Previous post was October 23, 2012 at 07:29 AM ----------

Silver Spoon's Arakawa Thanks Followers With Sketch Video

Manga creator Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist) thanked all the Twitter followers who posted congratulatory comments recently by drawing a sketch in a video:



Shogakukan posted the video on Wednesday in response to the deluge of messages that Arakawa received to celebrate the release of her fifth Silver Spoon manga volume. Shogakukan also created a television commercial by filling an entire blackboard with messages via Twitter, the web, and elsewhere:



The manga's official website posted a zoomable image of the blackboard so people can see all the messages up close.

The fifth volume went on sale on last Wednesday with a limited edition that bundled two teaspoons.

[TemplateR]

Shueisha Aims to Have Shonen Jump in More Countries

Hisashi Sasaki, deputy director of the Shonen Manga Group and former editor-in-chief of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, posted on his Twitter account on Monday that Shueisha will try to bring Shonen Jump not just to South America but "to all over the world." Sasaki said, however, that he could not yet give a timeline for the magazine's release in other countries.

Currently, Weekly Shonen Jump is partially available in English in North America via Viz Media's Shonen Jump Alpha digital anthology. The manga chapters featured in Shonen Jump Alpha are published two weeks after their debut in the Japanese magazine, but Viz Media plans to move to a simultaneous model with Japan "very soon."

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

[Googlez_kun]

Yes yes yes please!!Germany!!

[Kaiten]

Licensing Announcements from NYCC

VIZ:

• Tiger and Bunny
• Tiger and Bunny: Comic Anthology
• Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration
• Sunny

source

Vertical:

• Utsubora
• Twin Knights
• Helter Skelter

Source/Source

Yen Press:

• Puella Magi Oriko Magica
  
• Puella Magi Kazumi Magica ~The innocent malice~
• K-On! High School
• K-On! College
• Are You Alice?

Source

[naruto-niichan]

Unpublished Early Osamu Tezuka Manga Discovered

An unpublished manga that pioneering creator Osamu Tezuka (Mighty Atom/Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor/Kimba the White Lion, Phoenix) drew when he was in his late teens has been discovered. The manga dealt with post-war societal problems such as the black market and food shortages.

Tezuka had given the 19-page manga to a middle-school classmate, who then kept it for over six decades. Tezuka Productions acquired the manga for about 3 million yen (about US$37,000) after it was displayed in a Tokyo used bookstore this past April, and the studio confirmed that the manga is from the studio's namesake founder.

[Schabrak]

It's a nice find, but in the end it's just one out of dozens/hundreds[ideas] of manga he created. I'm half through an analysis of his characters/topics/narrative structure of his manga and Osamu's done a lot already until Shintakarajima was published for the first time in '47. That reminds me that I'm so far behind on reading his works...

[Animeace]

It has been announced that long time seinen manga sunday series Shizukanaru Don will be ending source> @manga_sundayTwitter

The manga began serialazation in early 1988 to dates it has spond 96 total manga volumes along with live action films and a ova.

This manga depicts the life of Shizuya Kondou, a man who designs underwear by day and is "don" of a gang at night.