Animanga in the News: 2/23/11

Here you will find a run down of today's anime and manga news! If anything sent waves through the anime and manga world today, you'll find it in this post! By the way, I'm saladesu, one of the translator-moderators of MH, and I'll be posting a post like this every day (as much as possible, anyway). Look forward to them ;)

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The seventh installment of Araki Hirohiko's hit manga series "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", which has sold over 75 million copies, "Steel Ball Run", will end in the issue of Ultra Jump that goes on sale on 19th April.

"Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" began serialization in December 1986. The seventh installment, "Steel Ball Run", was serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump between January and October 2004, but later moved to Ultra Jump from March 2005. This installment tells the tale of the characters involving themselves in a cross-country race from San Diego to New York, set in North America in the 1890s.

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The Manga App Awards had called for submission of manga applications (TN: this refers to applications where people can read a certain manga; ie the manga is published as an app not in a magazine etc) both from professionals and amateurs between August and November in 2010. 58 high-level submissions were received and from them, 17 entries were nominated. Finally, after a final round of elimination, 5 entries remain. They are:

1. MUSE by Korekawa Akane
2. Yuko Tanbo by Saimura Tsukasa
3. Haruou no Isan by Matsuba Hirotaka
4. Payakari no Mi by Suga Youkou
5. Kawaisou na Akuma by Illustration House Kaneko

People who wish to vote may download the app here, and enjoy samples of the 5 finalists in 5 different languages for free. However, if you want to read more, you will need to buy that manga.

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