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Manga News: Check out this week's new manga: (5/6/13 - 5/12/13)
Site News: Check out our new sections: Information Technology and Theater Lounge.
Events: Bleach Tournament has started! The results of Manga Awards 2012 is out, do check them too.
Translations:
Bleach 537
by BadKarma
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Gintama 445
by Bomber D Rufi
Now that we are introducing "Manhua" and "Manhwa" as a special case on the forums, I guess I'll have to add Chinese news in relation to its comics and animations. It will be a challenge but I'll try my best to add stuff related to those aspects of news.
As for the Manga Reviews, I'm confused. Don't we have a section like that on the main site area? Since MangaHelpers has a manga information database (for example: click Naruto ~and scroll down), should it not be where reviews are placed? The only problem would be how users could automatically add a series that MangaHelpers may not have on the info database. And how it will be seen publicly as a notice for those who view both the forums and the main site.
Better integration between the manga details page, reviews forum, and reviewers usergroup is a good idea. Having two sections of the site designed for the same function but without any integration does not seem optimal. It's one of those things I can't promise to take care of soon but given the time I would like to see done. It would need coding changes, something I could never promise.
The reviews forum actually predates the website portion of mangahelpers, created in January of 2008. There has always been a (relatively) rigorous set of rules in place to ensure that reviews are actual critique and criticism, rather than summary, opinion, comments, or discussion typical to the series forums. Having a reviewers usergroup reflects how much work is put into writing a review, that it is more than a simple forum comment. When the website was created in the spring of 2008 rather than put a "comment" button on the manga details page a "reviews" button was substituted. Maybe the intention was to encourage more high minded posts, I do not know for sure. But the posts that have been made over the years have more in common with posts made in the manga discussion forums, rather than reviews. There is nothing wrong with that, and that is what encouraged by the structure of the website. But despite the name attached there has never been much in common between the reviews in the forum and the reviews posted to the manga details page.