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<span style="font-size: 14pt">WHAT MANGA IS YOUR TRUE LOVE AT MANGAHELPERS?
New Art Contest Winners!!
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Advanced Colorist Amateur Colorist
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UPDATE
The Random Art block(on the upper right) has been fixed!! (Click on an image to see!!)
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<ul><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt">This Week's Winners Are...!</span><span style="font-size: 8pt"> This week both the winning entries from the Amateur and Advanced Manga Color Contest are from Bleach!! For the Advanced category,
angelgoo17 won with an awesome double spread! And for the Amateur category,
sekiyoku won with a great coloring of Ishida from a recent chapter! Congratulations to both!!</span><span style="font-size: 8pt">
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: 8pt">For this month we would like Valentine-themed entries for the
February Fanart Competitions. Hey, try to do some fun pairings! Don't forget to submit entries for or vote in the new
Bi-Weekly Advanced Colorist Contest and
Amateur Colorist Contest just started this week! Hope everybody will have a good Valentine's Day!</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt">
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<blockquote>Also, eni would like me to let everybody know that we have new
666 Satan and
D. Gray Man art forums. Feel free to have fun in these sections!
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<ul><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt"> Exorcists Unite!</span><span style="font-size: 8pt"> Who here likes Hoshino Katsura's shonen manga about exorcists and akumas? Well, good news! We have expanded the
D.Gray-Man section due to growing fan interest and overall[/html] [html]participation in translations and scanlations! Resident DGM translator [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=5667"]Rikki-Tikki-Tavi[/url] is currently doing a fantastic job of coming around every week every chapter to help out, and we also happen to have several contributors as far as scanlations go. So if you're a DGM fanatic, be sure to visit the section, including
Komui's Lab, to discuss anything to do with the manga! DGM moderators [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=16024"]Eni[/url] , [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=14934"]ttxdragon[/url] , and [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=8711"]Ayah[/url] will help you with any questions that you may have about Allen and his powers, friends, and enemies.
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<ul><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt">More Focus On Seinen!</span><span style="font-size: 8pt"> We also decided to expand the Seinen area as well because of the presence of scanlation groups interested in working with seinen (
Strays being the most prominent at MH right now) and translators (ie. [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=4"]Zindryr[/url] ) as well. If you do not know what seinen are, they are mature-themed stories that typically include a lot of violence, nudity, and mature content, so please be forewarned. We have given larger sections to the following manga:</span>[/list]
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Berserk</span><span style="font-size: 8pt"> by Kentaro Miura, arguably the most popular seinen manga in the world, about the brutal adventures and struggles of Guts, the Black Swordsman, as he fiercely battles with the monsters of his world. This manga has reached 32 volumes, so there's plenty to talk about at the newly-created
Interstice library section. So if you're a reader, what are you waiting for? Go there and discuss to your heart's content! Just remember, it's not a good idea to go berserk sometimes! A huge thanks to
Evil Genius for continuing to provide great scanlations for all the Berserk fans.
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Gantz by Hiroya Oku, about an intense and incredibly dangerous game of life and death - which only the dead can participate in! In order to preserve their lives, teenager Kei Kurono and several other people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens for unknown reasons. Now at 20 volumes and beyond, the manga is still going strong and attracts new readers every month here, thanks to [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=334"]Hisshouburaiken[/url], who translates every new chapter. If you would like to discuss the mysteries of the Black Ball, be sure to drop by our Gantz section and visit the
Gantz's Room and relax there and chat with other fans. Just watch out for the song.
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Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue, an award-winning manga based on fictitious accounts of the real-life samurai, Miyamoto Musashi, as written by Eiji Yoshikawa. A dedicated man to the sword who goes on a journey all over Japan, boldly challenging all the strongest warriors of the era in order to be invincible under the sun, Musashi learns several lessons about what it truly means to be strong. With the 24th volume coming out this month in Japan, Vagabond is another long-time seinen manga where there's tons to talk about, so feel free to open the
Book of Five Rings section and participate in conversations with other fans. Thanks to
Strays and [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=4"]Zindryr[/url] for helping us with this one.</span></blockquote>
<blockquote><span style="font-size: 8pt">More Seinen: We have also given child boards to more little-known seinen mangas called
Until Death Do Us Part and
My Balls.
Bakafish is working with, guess who - yep, [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=4"]Zindryr[/url] again - in order to give us new chapters of UDDUP, which is about a blind swordsman with a dark past who protects a precognizant girl from a world of yakuza and malicious companies seeking her talents. And My Balls is, well, a zany adventure where the name of the manga is incredibly appropriate - if you're really interested in more details, read
here about it. Have fun.
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: 8pt">Finally, be sure to check out the
One-Shots thread, which has a collection of short seinen stories that we have available for your reading pleasure. Enjoy.
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt">Enter: Inu Yasha!</span><span style="font-size: 8pt"> One of the longest-running and most popular mangas in the world, now almost at 500 chapters, we decided to finally give Inu Yasha some love especially since
Freelance-Manga scanlations agreed to help us out. Now Inu Yasha has its
own little section at MH , under Adventure Manga! Lovely [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=15802"]LadyHatake[/url] and the wonderful [url="/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=16024"]eni[/url] will be your hosts here. Translators are appreciated as well as fans. Have fun discussing!</span>[/list]
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt">The End of Fillers!</span> And now for some (gasp) anime-related news! Even though most of us are more focused on manga here at MH, many of us are still excited that the fillers have ended for Bleach and will end for Naruto later this month on February 15th! Psst, that would be a fun way to celebrate Valentine's Day! Anyway, so be sure to join us for discussions at the
Naruto Theater and
Bleach Theater ! We also have an
One Piece Theater and a
D. Gray-manTheater, as well as
General Anime,
Adventure Anime,
Fighting & Sports Anime, and
Seinen Anime boards. Go ahead, don't be shy and tell us what animes you enjoy the most![/list]
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt">Join Us On IRC!!!</span> Don't forget that we have a MH Channel, and more of us are hanging out there now! More info
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