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Trumix.com listings available of MangaCast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Volume 322 ~ High School Girls 9 and Gunslinger Girls 6 We are talking about shoujo! But we are not reading shoujo… Manga about girls! Oh and if anyone has news on ADV’s manga plans let us know. I haven’t seen a listing for Gunslinger Girls 7 or an actual volume Yotsuba 6 yet. Are they still in business? Did they began working on PiQ and drop [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #40 ~ that Con in Tokyo That isn’t About Comics Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008 Dates: 03/27-03/30/2008　10:00 - 18:00 Venue: Ariake Big Sight, Tokyo So what is the difference between an American anime fest and a Japanese one? I got to sit down and talk to reps of America’s largest ani-cons and they broke it down for me in ways that even a manga fan could understand. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 321 ~ Fairy Tail & Gun Blaze West GUN BLAZE WEST #1 by: 和月 伸宏 Gun Blaze West #1 by: Watsuki Nobuhiro Shueisha/Viz Media/Shounen/western adventure - Rated 16+ - $7.99 I am sure that at one point or another every red blooded American male wanted to be a cowboy. They wanted their own gun and bandaliers, and more importantly they wanted to someday go off on an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 319 ~ Battle Club and DOMINION   ドラゴンヘッド #3 by: 望月峯太郎 Battle Club #3 by: Shiozaki Yuuji Shonen Gahosha/TOKYOPOP/Seinen/wrestling comedy - Rated 18+ - $9.99 In the world of sports manga there is only one true path to strength. Rivalry, training, friendship, and finally defeating your personal demons. In Battle Club, all of that happens in and out of the wrestling ring. In fact, most of it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #318 ~ dragon head & Brave Story Two from TP. Two under the radar and two reasons to SEINEN UP! ドラゴンヘッド #1+2 by: 望月峯太郎 dragon head #2 by: Mochizuki Minetaro Kodansha/TOKYOPOP/Seinen/thriller - Rated 16+ - $9.99 So we had mechanics in a subway in Metro Survive. Let’s check out what teenagers trapped in a bullet train tunnel will do with no light, limited food and water and no [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 317 ~ minima! & Metro Survive minima! #1 by: 桜井まちこ minima! #1 by: Sakurai Machiko Kodansha/Del Rey/Josei/comedy - Rated 13+ - $10.99 The world of toys… Man sends chills down my spine as it brings back memories of the old FAO Schwartz in SF. “Welcome to My World/Welcome to My World/ Welcome to Our World of Toys!!” Well the world of toys seems to be a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 316 ~ With the Light… & Andromeda Stories Family…Everyone has one. Sometimes they bring you joy; sometimes they bring the end of mankind… You cannot escape their influence! Pick your poison with Volume 316. 光とともに… #1 by: 戸部けいこ With the Light… #1 by: Tobe Keiko Akita Shoten /Yen Press/Josei/drama - Rated 13+ - $14.99 No one ever said raising a child was easy. They need to be fed. Diapers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Morning Report #13 ~ Looking at 07 (finally) Only took us two months (plus) but we finally got our picks for 2007. Last year had its share of great titles. From the artsy seinen of Town of Evening Calm to the yuri sweetness of the Last Uniform it almost seemed impossible to settle on a few. Fortunately Jack Tse didn’t just settle on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #315 ~ Yozakura Quartet & NANA Please be patient with me, I am struggling with bronchitis and am praying I don’t get pneumonia. Luckily I recorded this podcast two weeks ago… Yeah, I have been sick since the start of the month (edited out the coughs from the last two recordings, you know so I don’t contaminate you all through your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #314 ~ Alice on Deadlines & Galaxy Angel II As I am sure many of you are aware, making good manga is not easy. Yeah anyone can draw a comic and yeah what is “good” is to me could be “chopped liver” to the next person, but I think anyone would agree a good comic not only has at the very least adequate art [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #313 ~ Hell Girl and Blood Relatives Once again feeling a little shoujo. And with valentines day only hours away why not celebrate it with a little taste of the OCCULT!!! Two shoujo titles that will make you scream. Or they made me scream… 地獄少女 #1 by: 永遠 幸 Hell Girl #1 by: Eto Miyuki Kodansha/Del Rey/Shoujo/horror - Rated 16+ - $10.99 It’s a sad sad world out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #312 ~ Black Dog and Gunslinger Girls Now seinen manga is pretty diverse. Fantasy, romance, drama, educational, sports… Today though I take a look at an old favorite…stereotypical action manga. At least the leads are female. SEINEN UP! 黒神 #2 by: 林達永 & 朴晟佑 Black God #2 by: Lim DallYoung & Park SungWoo SquareEnix/Yen Press/Seinen/action - Rated 16+ - $10.99 I possibly shouldn’t go on a tangent like this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #311 ~ the Last Uniform & Kyoukaku DOG’s It’s Feb so love is in the air. In this volume I look at high school love in an all girls school. And then I close out with the love shared between a high school girl and her “dog”… キョウハクDOG’s #1 by: しゃあ Kyouhaku DOG’S #1 by: Shaa MediaWorks/Infinity Studios/Seinen/romance-comedy - Rated 13+ - $10.99 Sendai is known as the “mad [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 310 - Unbalance 2X and Guin Saga Back on track and back to what makes this place run…Seinen. Seinen romances - I grew up on the stuff. Seinen fantasy - I think many anime otaku saw their share back in the mid-90’s. SEINEN UP! 언밸런스x2 #2 by: 임달영/이수현 Unbalance X2 #2 by: Lim DallYoung/Lee SooHyon Daiwon IC/Infinity Studios/Seinen/romance-comedy - Rated 13+ - $10.99 Jin-ho is earnest…but darn is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #307 ~ Gunsmith Cats & Hikaru no Go Out of order… Sadly, that sign is often sitting around my desk. Never got around to unpack the lappy after the Japan trip so this episode has been on the shelf for a while. Shame too because these titles are definitely worth a look. ガンスミス キャッツ by: 園田 健一 Gunsmith Cats BURST #1 by: Sonoda Kenichi Kodansha/Dark Horse/Seinen/bounty hunting action [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #309 ~ Appleseed and Nodame Cantabile Mature manga…Got to love it. Two titles for sophisticated readers this evening. You’ve got to SEINEN UP! Seinen up, BABY!! (JOSEI UP too if you can!) アップルシ－ド by: 士郎 正宗 Appleseed #1 by: Shiro Masamune Seishinsha/Dark Horse/Seinen/cyberpunk - Rated NA - $14.99 WWIII is over and what is left of mankind is struggling to survive. But there is life on this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #308 ~ Witchblade Takeru and Dorothy of Oz Woohoo first volume of the year! Only a month after the last one… Luckily I recorded another one tonight so expect more audio in the near future. WITCHBLADE丈琉 by：小林靖子 & 隅田かずあさ Witchblade TAKERU by: Kobayashi Yasuko and Sumita Kazasa Top Cow and Akita Shoten/Bandai Ent/Shounen/action - Rated 16+ - $9.99 You know the story. You possibly have seen the anime and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #39 ~ Comic Marble More magazine talk… This time I take a look at a seinen romance comedy mag from mahjong manga kings Takeshobo. I should mention that Comic Marble is an off-shoot of Kindai Mahjong magazine. I liken it to an omake edition for when regular gamblers lose their money and need to focus their attention on other [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #38 ~ Weekly Manga Sunday Don’t let anyone say gekiga is dead. It’s still kicking but really this genre was never a big seller. Even the great Tatsumi was never really appreciated as much as say Aduma Hideo was (in their respective primes). Koilke has his Gekiga King line and Comic Ran; LEED has their own gekiga lines that Saitou [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #306 - Vampire Hunter D (manga) and SunDome It’s been a while since I did a worst of podcast. Two bad bad titles this evening. Don’t know what you should do with these but I know I want my time and brain cells refunded. Vampire Hunter D #1 by: Takaki Saiki DMP Books/seinen/fantasy-action - Rated 16+ - $12.99 You know the story. You possibly have seen the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | This Week in Manga #02 I will not use the holidays as an excuse for the lack of podcasts on the site this month. Truth is that the MangaCast has been all over the place. I was in New York… TWICE!! Jack was partying in Vegas. I can’t even talk about what Eva has been up to with the Eisners. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume 305 ~ Hikaru no Go & My Dearest Devil Princess Wanted to post this first thing in the morning but I didn’t realize how much time these took to get together. Either I am getting old or podcasting is a slow process. Hikaru would possibly say I am too old for this. Though if I had a devil in a box I’d wish for faster [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #304 ~ Hanami and Yagyu Ninja Scrolls You cannot spell MangaCast without MM4MM. So after a short break with josei, shounen and shoujo, we go back to our roots and dig into the seinen. Ninjas, samurai and taekwondo… Ah yeah its good to be manly!! Ｙ十Ｍ #1 by: せがわ　まさき Yagyu Ninja Scrolls #1 by: Segawa Masaki Kodansha/Del Rey/seinen/action - Rated 18+ - $13.99 As I told my sempai [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #303 ~ Walkin’ Butterfly and 10, 20, 30 Josei manga is slowly creeping into the manga conscious. So I thought it was about time to devote another podcast to manga for women. Let the MM4MM fans feast on leftovers for another day or two, we are talking ladies manga from Korea and Japan this volume! 10、20그리고30 by: 강모림 10, 20, and 30 #1 by: Kang MoRim NETCOMICS/josei/slice of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Yaoi Press @ YaoiCon 2007 (Audio UP!) Mornings at YaoiCon… No offense but for an 18+ event I wonder why the publisher programming starts so early. With auctions, contests and parties going on late into the evening some people can’t get up by noon let alone 10:00am! I’d like to have a few of these around 5:00 or 6:00p on Saturday and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #302 ~ Love Com and Yotsuba&! I cannot remember the last time we had three review podcasts in one week. Feels like the good old days. And after reading these two great comedies I feel like wrapping up at least two more by the end of the week (sorry Erin). In all seriousness, these are two strong comedies and they are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #301 ~ Presents and Coyote Ragtime Show plus a Preview of Slam Dunk and the Origin of Naruto Jack took the MangaCast to our next century of audio and I will try to guide you through most of it. The next 100 start off with some horror and some space pirate action. Not sure which is more frightening (especially since my review of Coyote Ragtime Show wasn’t very positive). I’ll let you be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Takanaga Hinako @ YaoiCon 07 I have noticed one difference between niche and mainstream is name recognition. In mainstream manga people know titles and artists are not quite as relevant. Among the niche artists are recognized more.  Getting the attention of that base of fans is more important when selling certain genres. Takanaga Hinako is a mangaka who has earned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WHOOOHOO!!! Episode #300 ~ Yagyu Ninja Scrolls, EMMA and the Last Uniform When the MangaCast launched back in 2005 I didn’t really imagine that it would have survived long enough to reach 300 episodes. Truth be told there have been almost 400 podcasts on this blog over the last 28 months but the original MC, manga reviews, where Jack, Jarred and I have regularly put our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | My Fellow Otaku, I Give You: I, Otaku Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | This Week in Manga with Jack Tse #1 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #298 ~ Kurohime & Undertown I don't know if you have noticed this but I don't review shounen much here. Outside of the occasional IWJ! and Kekkaishi review, I tend to almost specialize in seinen. Sorry about that... Today we look at two shounen titles. And they come from two sides of the Pacific ocean. One is a western and one is a fantasy-adventure. Guess which is from Japan and which is from North America... 魔砲使い黒姫 by: 片倉・狼組・政憲 Kurohime #1 by: Katakura Masanori Rated: 16+ Price: $7 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #297 ~ Banya and King of Cards Another Korean title tonight and a shoujo trading card game manga from a BL mangaka... Enough said listen to the podcast. I will be in the corner crying after my Bears lost! T-T (There goes the New Orleans trip... I am still praying for Roses though) 폭주배달부 반야　　#2 by: 김영오 Banya the Explosive Delivery Man #2 by: Kim YoungOh Rated: 16+ Price: $12.99 Dark Horse/Haskan Pub/Shounen/action Fast, Precise, and Secure! The delivery man's motto should be everyone's motto. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #296 ~ Black God & Tanpenshu We have our first of three Yen Press reviews tonight and this one is a good one. Black God is shaping to be a solid title, particularly for shounen action fans (not smart enough for the seinen readers that SquEn marketed this to but I am sure that doesn't matter to most readers). Tanpenshu on the other hand is straight from the SEINEN UP file. A handful of tightly written and cleanly drawn short manga from a manga genius. To me this is the best short series of 2007. Nothing else comes clo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #295 ~ MPD Psycho #1 and MAIL #3 As I go through the Side Dishes I recorded in Osaka and Tokyo, I found a mangacast I recorded while in Nippon. Yeah, I completely forgot about this Dark Horse cast. Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was the thriller/horror themes the two titles are associated with. Either way something wanted me to suppress all memories of... 多重人格探偵サイコ (１) by: 田島 昭宇 & 大塚 英志 MPD Psycho #1 by: Tajima Shou & Otsuka Eiji Rated: 18+ Price: $10.99 Kadokawa/Dark Horse/Shoun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #36 ~ Futomaki: Comic Valkyrie The world of eromanga has changed quite a bit in the last 4-5 years or so. There was a time when most of these pubs specialized in eromanga, adult magazines for men and tabloid mags. Very few of them really tried to expand outside of that adult male market. And the ones that did might have had come from a more mainstream business in the past. Now eromanga is in a strange state. Pubs are shutting down. Magazines are discontinued. Or that is what you see mentioned on blogs. What you don't h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #35 ~ CoreMagazine's BangaIchi (18+) More ero Side Dishes to enjoy. This time I take a look at CoreMagazine's BangaIchi. This mag is slick. Amazing art from start to finish. Maybe thats why it is called "Ban ga Ichi"? But looking at this mag a little closer it might be called "banger ichi" because most of the girls in this mag are in the bishojo age range. Kinda funny how HiyoHiyo's covers don't really express that but then again CoreMagazine is one of the more respected ero-pubs out there. I mean they have a BL line and pub ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #294 ~ Spirit of Capitalism (18+) Geh... My college football related impulses basically ruined my weekend and eros week. I apologize to the three of you old enough to read adult manga. So for those of you who are here for the ero-mangacasts set your calendars to Sept 27 and go run out to buy a copy of the Tuna Empire's latest. This is must buy ero!! 資本主義の精神 by: まぐろ帝國 the Spirit of Capitalism by: Tuna Empire Rated: 18+ Price: $19.99 Akaneshinsha/Icarus/ero-manga/OL If manga and anime have taug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #291 ~ Venus Versus Virus, Samurai Commando Posting from an Akihabara manga-kissa and I have to agree with most people`s opinions about these... I could in theory live in one of these. The rent is a little high but then again I don`t have to pay utilities and most soft drinks are free. Hmmm. My little cubicle even has a safe. I could keep a change of clothes there or in a locker by the subway station. As I debate whether to move the office to Soto-Kanda or not, Jack is preparing for the worst by ramping up his review output. This t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #33 ~ Young Comic Magazine (18+) Ero Manga doesn't get the love it deserves in the States. In Japan even major pubs release the stuff. The peeps who bring you Pilgrim Jager, Hellsing and Trigun also release ero manga. And they have some of the best artists in the business drawing for them - Ero manga and mainstream alike. Sadly I don't know why american pubs haven't released their eros before. I imagine there is some secret code or something that is maintaining people's images or something. But I would love to see Hatsuki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #32 ~ Comic Gumbo Manga magazines are not selling as well as they used to. Peeps can get their manga and novel mags online or on their cells, so printed phonebooks are no longer convenient. New publisher Digima is trying to give people cheap... err actually free manga in exchange for convenience. And they are getting attention. Their titles can now be read for free online (like Flex Comix... actually both are on the Yahoo Comics site). And more and more established artists are joining the fold. What I di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #289 ~ Alive and le Chevalier d'Eon So Jack kinda thought the transvestite angle was a little too much in his review of d'Eon. Will I be critical of the wig, goth attire and sudden boobage or will I enjoy the strange twist on Rococco poetry. And Alive is my vote for the best new shounen title of the year. Strong start and great pick up for Del Rey. シュヴァリエ (1) by: 冲方 丁 & 夢路 キリコ le Chevalier d'Eon #1 by: Ubokata Tou/Yumeji Kiriko Rated: 16+ Price: $10.99 Kodansha/Shounen/action Back in the days ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #41 Countdown Countdown to Otakon... Countdown to SDCC... Countdown to the Kodansha version of MegaTokyo... Countdown to the next Tezuka Awards... There was a lot of counting over at the MangaBlog lately. With so many events happening over the course of the summer keeping track of them all is not very easy but Brigid has been keeping track of most of the press releases and previews blogs like this one have been posting over the last week or so. One thing I am counting on is the release of Me ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaCast Vol #288 ~ Kitchen Princess, Le Chevalier d'Eon and My Heavenly Hockey Club Reviews return and Jack is going to start us off with the first of two days of Del Rey. Funny thing here is that we will also be looking at that second title... CROSSFIRE review style!?!? Maybe, maybe not. But I have to say, Jarred was right transvestites make good manga characters. シュヴァリエ (1) by: 冲方 丁 & 夢路 キリコ le Chevalier d'Eon #1 by: Ubokata Tou/Yumeji Kiriko Rated: 16+ Price: $10.99 Kodansha/Shounen/action Back in the days of Louis XV France had its pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #40 After the AX AX was only 10 days ago and news from the event is still trickling through the mangasphere. Gantz, .hack//XXXX, Naruto Novel 2... were just three of the many titles announced at the SoCal anime party. But along with all the new title news came some controversy and commentary. Dark Horse announced 9 new licenses at the con but also revealed that they have cancelled a title, put another on hiatus and delays for manga from prime time artists Fujishima Kousuke and Masamune Shirow ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #38 Revenge of the Wotaku You don't need the MangaBlog to tell you that Japanese readership of Weekly Shounen Jump magazine is split almost 50/50 between women and teenage boys. Take a look at a Princess Side ranking and there will usually be at least a couple REBORN! parodies, some Bleach! parodies and the occasional Death Note title tossed in their for angst reasons. Women seem to gobble up manga with cute righteous young men and they have ever since Sakuragi Hanamichi (Slam Dunk) and Seiya ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #37 To celebrate their first year anniversary the MBC took the last week off but they return with the latest rumblings and ramblings from the MangaSphere. Manga on your PC has been coming for what seems like years now. I cannot count how many panels I have seen dedicated to this. And yet there really is so little of it out there in the west. NETCOMICS has been doing this since day one and now they have teamed up with Yaoi Press to give American Fujoshi more ways to read BL. ConSeason is here. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #31 ~ Touring Tezuka Back on the 31st of last month, Jack and I got an opportunity to join the "real media" in a walk-through of the Marvel of Manga exhibit at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. The small exhibit of works from the father of manga tries to present two sides of Tezuka Osamu - his accessible side consisting of mainly shounen titles which were at some point animated and his mature side where gekiga titles like Vertical's Buddha, Kirihito and MW were on display. The tour was lead by the exhibit's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #36 Stop the Presses First I want to apologize for not posting this sooner. Lost in transit is my excuse but the truth is... I was on a tour of the NorthEast, MidWest and upon returning to my time zone of origin I essentially took a nap for two days. Julie and the crew have kept the place in order but you haven't had a podcast in more than a week. GOMEN! A few good ones are coming so stay tuned... Now to business... Is it me but does the mangasphere only seem to really wake up when there is s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #30 ~ A Manga Party with Inui Sekihiko Back from San Jose in one piece but I will admit there were some dicey moments at that long 4.5 day long con. Eleven years of Fanime and there was no doubt in my mind that Fanime is clearly the biggest anime con in Northern California. The reasons were clear from the moment I got there - experienced organizers, good location, great guests, great range of programming and lots of ravenous glomp crazy fans!! Yeah the there are drawbacks to a fan event run by fans (even Comiket has its moments) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #29 ~ Jason Thompson and his Manga About to embark on a long long bike ride to a con in San Jose in a bit. Couldn't be helped really as I don't drive. Should be interesting. Got an interview set for later today and there will be panels to record over the weekend. Stay tuned for that. Jason Thompson took a trip recently. Actually the freelance editor and man behind Manga: the Complete Guide I believe is still in North Africa taking in the sights after working on his huge manga encyclopedia. I got to sit down with Jason a fe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #285 ~ Galaxy Angel II & Disgaea 2 Focusing on the pubs that will be present at Fanime this weekend. So we will kick this week off with two new books from BroBooks... Oh and expect GA II 2 to be available in San Jose this weekend! ギャラクシーエンジェル3rd (2) by: かなん Galaxy Angel II # by: Kanan Rated: 13+ Price: $9.99 Flex Comics/Shounen/sci-fi comedy More Rune Angels come into the fold. However they are not all met with open arms. One of them is very apprehensive about this ordeal. She does not trust t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #35 Throw the Book at'em Jack and the MangaBlog crew have debated issues like scanlations in the past. So how do they feel about people scanning manga before its even published in a magazine? And where would they rate Shojo Beat amongst the most etchi kids manga magazines (or is SB too mature for kids to read)? This week Brigid and Jack throw the book at them all. ShoComi showing to much T&A... Best be improving sales or else! Scanners giving the manga industry a hit... The cops are on thei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #284 ~ Shakugan no Shana & Crimson Hero More manga from Viz to review... Hey, they release a lot of manga! Today we look at some SAMA in the form of volleyball manga and then there is a bishojo title from MediaWorks. Either way fanservice for me... Moe?? 灼眼のシャナ (1) by: 笹倉綾人 & 高橋弥七郎 Shakugan no Shana #1 by: Sasakura Ayato & Takahashi Yashichiro Rated: 16+ Price: $9.99 MediaWorks/Seinen/action Long hair, sailor suit, fiery red eyes and a big big sword... That's Shana in a nutshell. As you might i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #34 The Next Tezuka?? Don't know why but everyone is talking Tezuka now. Pretty sure its some scheme thought up by Vertical or Kodansha but everywhere I go while surfing the mangasphere I see "Osamu this" and "Tezuka that." Out here in my part of the world, art from Godfather of Manga will be on display at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. Called the Marvel of Manga the exhibition curated by Philip Brophy features more than 200 works from the manga master. Themes covered in the exhibit repre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #283 ~ Apothecarius Argentum & Oyayubihime Infinity For a MM4MM site like the MangaCast you would think reviewing CMX properties would be a chore for us. Contrary to popular belief even if a majority of CMX titles might be categorized as shoujo in Japan, they really have some decent cross-over appeal. So yeah, the Manly Men of the MangaCast do read shoujo, we just tend to go looking for a specific kind of shoujo is all. 薬師アルジャン (1) by: 山下友美 Apothecarius Argentum #1 by: Yamashita Tomomi Rated: 13+ Price: $9.99 Akit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #28 ~ Manga Action There was a time when a publisher like Futabasha could have made a huge impact on the US market. Back when manga was mainly seinen and shounen, the salaryman dramas and ero tinged action titles of this magazine would have been goobled up by comic readers looking for something in the vein of Lupin III or Crayon Shinchan. Over the last 20+ years, a handful of Futabasha titles have made it over; each of them proudly representing the adult nature of that publisher's magazines and the quirky hum ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #33 Something to Cheer About In a week where Viz news was practically a daily affair, the MangaBlogCast was able to rustle up a handful of non-Naruto info to share with you. Lucky you, because if it were up to me, I would have would have possibly turned this episode into a tribute show for two MangaCast influences who celebrated this past weekend - Willie Mays and Satsuki Yamashita. Plenty to celebrate though, especially with the return of Parasyte. Migi's new translation and right to left ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #282 ~ Golgo 13 & Neon Genesis Evangelion I didn't realize this until I was in the middle of this podcast but I accidentally made a CG Horn episode with two of his Viz titles. G13 might be the manliest title CG Horn has worked on and the other might be his most mainstream. Each is excellent and are good examples of the quality of Viz title outside of their SJ and SB imprints. ゴルゴ13 (8) by: さいとう・たかを Golgo 13 #8 by: Saito Takawo Rated: 18+ Price: $9.99 LEED/Seinen/action What sets Golgo, aka Duke Togo, apart ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaCurrynoMaki #12 ~ Instant Manga Curry Edition Manga Curry no MakiVolume #11 - March 31, 2007Instant Curry Edition</tr>Track (Starts):**Note: This was recorded in a pair of sessions over the last few weeks. So some of the topics covered might be a little dated. Oh and this is also Part One of this recording. Expect Part Dos this time next week. **Intro: (0:35) (music from the Live action version of With the Light - Mangekyo no KiraKira by RYTHEM)Libre-BiBLOS (05:00)Welcome Again to Aurora Pub (18:00)Walking with and Talking to t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #281 ~ Make 5 Wishes, Free Collars Kingdom, GachaGacha: Next Revolution Jack returns with a handful of new Del Rey manga reviews. And this time he has a special treat for you MangaCast readers... Yes readers! Included with this podcast is a written review of Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes with exclusive photo from Jack's photo shoot with the superstar! (Oh and mp3 version of the podcast will be up later tonight after I screen Paprika at the SFIFF50) Make 5 Wishes by: Camilla D'Errico and Joshua Dysart Rated: 13+ Price: $13.99 Shoujo/horror I have a problem wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Manga Draft: KING of EDITORS The Manga Draft returns with our first audio draft. Funny thing this was recorded a week or so before the first ManDora so the content might be in a slightly different format from Jarred set up in his written Drafts. This installment takes a look at a series that title that might be completely new to the majority of manga readers. To manga editors and publishers however, this is a manga that is near and dear to their hearts. Actually you could say this should be considered a manga editor' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #31 With a Slimy Vengeance After taking a well deserved week off, the MangaBlogCast returns demanding your attention! Yeah, I think you will agree that last week was a slow manga news week, so this episode is light on topics but still filled with value and relevance. Didn't get enough Eisner nominee commentary? Jack can tell you why he was disappointed with the peeps from the SDCC. Fed up with CLAMP's cutesy shoujo/shounen styles and what something edgy? Mr. Tse gives CLAMP some much needed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #280 ~ Category: Freaks&JUNK We had some PR from DrM announcing the future for this pub; today, I share with you some reviews covering their present. Two decent action titles from DrMaster. Each one drawn beautifully with heavy inks and very clean characters designs.One is a mashup of horror, fanservice and mystery, while the other is a Japanese take on a superhero comic... Sometimes I feel only mid-range pubs like DrM or CMX can pull off releasing titles like this.カテゴリ:フリークス (3)by: 極楽院櫻子Cat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #279 ~ Paintings of You & Only Words How do we follow up an all eromanga podcast here at the MangaCast? How about an all OEL BL podcast? Mens Love, Global Boys Love, whatever you want to call it? Iris' first two graphic novels (they have released some prose and an anthology collection) show off how different boys love books can be. Obvious differences in art style, but there is some range to subject matter and how they approach those manly relationships. Paintings of You by: Chris Delk & Mia Palluzi Rated: 13+ Price: $12. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #278 ~ Taboo District & Pink Sniper Took 278 volumes of the ManCasu but we have finally done it.. An all eromanga episode. Two 18+ titles from two western eromanga publishers and guess what the are both good. Hope this isn't the first and last. Keep them coming Simon and Toren, we need more of this stuff. PINKSNIPER by: 米倉けんご Pink Sniper by: Yonekura Kengo Rated: 18+ Price: $18.99 Eros Comix/eromanga/sci-fi comedy Dr. Sakurai's office is the last place you want be in if you at attend a certain high school ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #30 Mature Manga for a Maturing Readership The MangaCast is all about the MM4MM. Seinen, eromanga, BL we love the manly manga. Knowing that mature manga for mature women is coming has got us excited (even if some of the staff will not be reading much of it). But last week news was not exclusive to josei and BL. All in One's are coming, plenty more Claymore to enjoy (in the States and abroad) and soon there will be some MM4MM movies to be enjoyed on the big screen!! The MangaBlog has matured a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #277 ~ Galaxy Angel II & Murder Princess Pretty easy for me to review BroBooks titles because well... I have long been a fan of Broccoli properties. That said this set of books posed some challenges. I might have hit my lifetime GA quota (not enough Forte can do that) and Murder Princess is not a Bro original so I had no clue what to expect in terms of fanservice and comedy... ギャラクシーエンジェル 3rd (1) by: かなん Galaxy Angel II #1 by: Kanan Rated: 13+ Price: $9.99 BroBooks/shounen/sci-fi comedy The Angel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #25 All about the GN, baby!MangaBlog took a break last week, but the crew was not in the Bahamas or the Mexican Riviera. Brigid was out in the NYC getting the scoop on the latest developments in the manga business from ground-zero. When Brigid was not hitting the various panels with lappy and pen, she was interviewing editors and artists on the floor.Strangely enough much of the news in this week's MBC actually did not come from NYCC at all. While there is some insight about the ICv2 panel and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOKYOPOP @ NYCC (audio up) TP got lots of love at NYCC. If you listened to the audio from the ICv2 panel, the company was basically praised as the reason why graphic novels have turned into the only growing sector of the publishing market. What TP did back when the revolution launched changed publishing and literally made NYCC what it is today. You want to argue with me over that... bring it I have to say TP is getting some love from me now also. I thought 2006 was pretty low-key for the Revolution. Some experiments ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Viz Media @ NYCC 07 (audio now up) Finally we move on to the industry panels. Easy to start with Viz because well the Big V is king of la manga. Naruto alone makes up for high single digit market share in 2006. You cannot say that about any other GN property out there. Viz is more than just the source of all SJ and SB, but they have a few other titles in their catalog you ought to take note of. That said, Viz looked back at their classics and repackaged them in their newest imprint for some reason. Yet during the Q&A segme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ICv2 @ NYCC 07 ~ Buyers Panel If there were $360,000,000 worth of GNs sold in 2006 then there must have been a ton... no a TONNE of buyers out there. Match the names with the voices as ICv2 sits down with buyers from Diamond, Scholastic, B&N and Baker & Taylor to discuss what they are buying. Psst... Its BOYS LOVE! Yes all of them... Well not Scholastic but the rest are. Thursday Feb 22 ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference ***Industry Only*** 16:00~16:50 Buyers Panel -- Graphic Novels, the Next Three Years A panel of key ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ICv2 Panel - the White Paper (with Audio!!) As the members of Bloggers' Row know the only reason to go to NYCC was to show up for the stats and blue drinks at the ICv2 panel. Milton Griepp shared an hours worth of data and analysis of graphic novel sales for 2006. An hour was not enough when you consider the industry was $360,000,000 last year (most people have $330,000,000 but Milton later added $30mil from Scholastic Book Fair Sales). And how much of that was manga you ask? A LOT!! You want to know how much? Listen to the podcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #24 Manga Represent!! Happy Prez Day from the MangaBlogCast. Later this week Brigid will be heading down to the Big Apple to represent the Mangasphere at NYCC. Make sure to check out her reports on that. But before she leaves, the MangaBlog has another 10+ minutes of news and commentary for your earbuds. This time they take a look at a couple of publishers. RealBuzz made some noise this last week with their Christian global manga. Hey, someone has to make manga for this market right? Del Rey ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #273: Nodame, Kitchen Hime and School Rumble This was going to be a Valentine but it ended up becoming a Del Rey episode. I guess in a round about way Del Rey can equal love. I really do feel the love when I read titles like Nodame and ES. Big bad-ass Basilisk is definitely love. But can I say the same about Kitchen Princess??のだめカンタービレ (8)by: 二ノ宮 知子Nodame Cantabile #8by: Ninomiya TomokoRated: 16+Price: $10.99Del Rey/josei/romance-comedyI want to ROCK!! ROCK!!!I want to ROLL!! ROCK!!! I want tooo ROCK!None o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #272 ~ Densha Otoko, Samurai Executioner, Yubisaki Milk Tea Hmmm, I wasn't thinking about this but somehow this episode turned into a valentines episode with three male romances... Hmm read the books and you'll get my point.電車男　〜でも、俺旅立つよ。〜 (3)by: 渡辺航Densha Otoko #3by: Watanabe WataruRated: 16+Price $9.99CMX/shounen/romance-comedyOtaku romance is not your every day love story. An otaku could seriously be satisfied with the complete collection of DC PVE Super-Heroines. That would be enough for hot tears of sh... LOV ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #23 NaniNani Mania, WHATI have been trying for so long to make Jack a Maniac. Everytime I pushed, I felt I took him too far. Like the main character from NHK, he gets too deep into each element of fandom. A few months back I tried to get Jack into Japanese games and he suddenly became a sudoku fan. He tested out the world of ero-manga and then he started to talk about bishoujo like a professional lolicon. Now he is podcasting about doujinshi and yuri while debating the shojo/yaoi elements in Ba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Side Dish #027 ~ Comptiq Ace (futomaki) Back in the early 90's when I was starting to get into anime I began reading a lot of Kadokawa Shoten manga. In the 90's Kadokawa Shoten with its Dragon Jr, Shonen Ace and Dragon Mag were good sources of manga. Many of their titles were in some way connected to a number of fantasy and sci-fi titles that aired during that era. Vs Knight, HyperPolice, Tenchi Muyo, Lodoss Wars, Slayers and eventually Evangelion were staples of my diet back then. Providing me with plenty of sources for me to sp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #271 ~ Her Majesty's Dog, Junjo Romantica and High School Girls In between moaning about press releases and typing up report cards, I unbelievably had time to read some manga over the weekend. And shock it was not in a magazine!! Three titles from 2006 this time and this time they are not from iPubs. 女王様の犬 (5) by: 竹内未来 Her Majesty's Dog #5 by: Takeuchi Mick Rated: 16+ Price $109.99 Go!Comi/shoujo/fantasy-drama By now you all know that words are very powerful. They have the ability to change lives. So in this latest volume of Her M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #22 the Shot Heard Round the MangaSphere!! Is it me or is winter always this hot for manga controversy? Last year at NYCC we had anime producers talking smack about manga while sitting next to manga industry reps. This year a manga publisher essentially declares war on manga fans everywhere! It's easy to get defensive about what you love but personally I felt this latest episode of ame-comi vs manga turned out becoming quite educational. Definitely opened my eyes to how much manga bloggers out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #267 ~ MangaCasts' Top 10s of 2006 Happpyyyy New Year!!! Just a month late. But at least we beat the Lunar New Year. Actually in North America the Manga New Year isn't until NYCC so I think we are in good shape ^_^Last year around the half-way point of the Manga Calender MangaCaster Jack Tse approached me with an idea. He wanted to take the reigns and close out 2006 by taking on what I consider one of the highlights of my job - the annual top ten list. Knowing Jack I knew he'd give you listeners an energy-filled action packe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #270 - MAIL, NHK and Gertrude In between moaning about press releases and typing up report cards, I unbelievably had time to read some manga over the weekend. And shock it was not in a magazine!! Three titles from 2006 this time and this time they are not from iPubs.ガートルードのレシピ（2）by: 草川為Recipe for Gertrude #2by:Rated: 3+Price $9.99CMX/shoujo/fantasy-dramaThe recipe has been found but it was hidden on the most unlikely of places. What was the reasoning behind this and how will Sahara and Gert ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #269: Blood Alone, Council of Carnality, Unbalance X2 So much manga piling up everywhere!! I am feeling a little overwhelmed. So I decided to play manga darts to figure out where to start. Dart #1 landed on section I. So today the "I" are it... Icarus and Infinity.BLOOD ALONE（３）by: 高野真之Blood Alone #2by: Takano MasayukiRated: 13+Price $9.99Infinity/seinen/dramaYour average vampire manga revolves around cool looking bad-asses and their emo prey. Blood Alone is a vampire drama. You never see the vamp hunting innocent damsels down in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #268: To Terra... Ahh classic manga = so much love. I could easily do a whole week of podcasts dedicated to the stuff but instead I will treat you to 18mins or so of To Terra.... And honestly if you are a fan of classic manga, like me, reading To Terra... is like revisiting a handful of classic manga. In a way it gave me a chance to think about the titles this series has influenced and it reminded me of the artists that Takemiya was influenced by as well. 地球へ… by: 竹宮 惠子 To Terra... by: Tak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #25: Comic Sylph (FutoMaki) Podviews and Side Dishes; rinse and repeat until I can get myself record a regular GN review again. Not that I can't (at least I think I still can). I am just starting to really like looking at this mountain of manga by my desk. Reminds me of the Sunshine Bldg in Ikebukuro... Shiwase!!Speaking of Ikebukuro and while stumbling there on New Year's Day, I got my hands on the newest magazine from bishojo and video game spin-off manga publisher MediaWorks. This one is nothing like the AzuDai's, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Working Woman Moyoco Anno is one of my heroes. Not only because she has survived a marriage to lunatic Anno Hideaki but also because she continues to evolve as a mangaka. Starting off as a josei artist Anno has worked through seinen and shojo with tremendous success with each demographic. A few of her titles have been translated into English and even if opinions vary on her work Anno has long been a great topic of conversation amongst manga critics. Her characters might appear to represent the selfish an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #23 ~ Houbunsha's Weekly Manga Times (FutoMaki) The ComiFoot has not fully healed but I am already up hitting the mean streets of Kansai for eats and competition on SFIII:3rdA. And as the year is still young the hours are not yet normal in many places, which lead to some time to record a FutoMaki in the middle of a shopping arcade.Seinen manga about cooking, enka and new years prayer all shared with a musak background provided by the association behind a certain magical shopping arcade that isn't that magical.This week we look at:Houbuns ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FuyuComi 2006 ~ Day 2 or Fuuuujoshi wars!!! Got there darn early on Saturday to go shopping for a few of you. I get two requests for hentai but 6 for BL.... I hope you all know I love you after this. Got there early enough to be right near the bottom of the steps to the bridge. And I only needed to get there at 6:00am!! Fortunately there was nikuman and hot cocoa to be had at the conbini near the station. There was a great time had in the cold but seriously today was not a day for me. Today was a one of the...Day Two... Fujoshi WarsS ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Con Alert! ~ Comiket 71 Very uncool of me not to do a Con Alert a day early. Even worse is how I am now doing one a day late. But as a few of you know I got up pretty early... Not as early as promised, but early, to get into line hell. It was a cold exhilarating experience to say the least. Fortunately, I was prepared. Had me my maps with me. I had a pocket heat warmer and some cocoa to warm the body. Tunes to warm the soul and long socks to keep the blood lust warm before the hunt.Took a couple picks of the crazy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #24 - Doujin Walker&Young Animal (FutoMaki) Okay still running a couple days late, but I blame not mastering time travel and the Comiket blisters on my feet.Got to do a FutoMaki a couple days back in our old Tokyo studio... The Akiba UDX. While hanging out in front of the train stating I took a look at a magazine a couple MangaCast-ers want to simply port over to English. Yeah all of it from the DMC Official Special Edition CD Jacket to the Berserk ads at the end of the book.This week we look at:Hakusensha'sYoung Animal01号 2007300Y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #22 - AkibaWalker/Catalog Hunter If this doesn't work email me. I have access on my cell and PSP... kinda.But as I am riding the monorail thingy to Ariake here goes a simple version of a MakiSide Dish. An AkibaWalker version running around looking for a Comiket catalog and a little complaining on Tuedsay. Check out my japanese skilz as I order onigiri by the Don Quixote! TsunaMayo anyone?!!Listen to Side Dish Here:As always, be aware that the review might contain spoilers.Subscribe to the MangaCast atemail at mangacast@gma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaBlogCast #20 I go on my own Way, the Name is Maniac/Otome Road! A lot of shojo talk around the mangasphere as of late. Got to say I have not been on top of this because I have been in ota-mode instead of working it fujo-kei. But over at the MangaBlog Brigid and Jack were all over it this in this episode. Now I have to warn you they are covering different topics; ranting and raving from different sides of the spectrum. Maybe the MangaCast is rubbing off on them... Maybe it is about time for a holiday br ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #265 - Let's Be Perverts, Banya and YoDong's Vampire A day late sorry. But I got some audio reviews for you. This time we take a look at some manhwa. But not the manhwa you get from ICE Kunion or even DramaQueen. These are the seinen titles. The titles from Seoul Cultural Productions and others that have a different style and attitude from the Daiwon CI and Sigongsa titles we have seen dominate the manhwa sector. These are the type of title that some of us old skool manhwa readers remember from the early days when Korean comics started coming ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #264 - Kasimasi, Tenshi ja Nai!! & GA BETA and a Contest Ranma ended a few weeks back but that doesn't mean we are short for gender-benders. Three titles covering boys-now-girls, boys dressing like girls and the girls that love them and girls acting like guys to protect the nation that love them! Lots of love in gender-benders... Maybe Tom Hanks and Takahashi Rumiko were onto something... かしまし 〜ガール・ミーツ・ガール〜（１） by: あかほりさとる/桂遊生丸 Kasimasi #1 by: Akahori Satoru/Katsura Yukimaru Rate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SAMAcast 26th Inning - Angel Cup, Hikaru no Go and Slam Dunk Its always SAMA season... Sometimes we forget that here at the MangaCast. But today we continue to play extra innings with three more sports manga. Get your towels ready and don't forget your cheers between swigs of beer and spoonfuls of Koshien Curry; we got another inning to play! 엔젤컵 (2) by：윤재호 Angel Cup #2 by: Youn JaeHo Rated: 13+ Price $9.99 TOKYOPOP/shojo/Soccer When I think of soccer manga, Captain Tsubasa and Whistle! come to mind. But you see those titles are sh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #263 - Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Golgo 13&Masquerade Got a lot of manga over the weekend and with so many of them being of the seinen persuasion I thought I might as well knock them out quickly. So I go back to what we do best here at the MangaCast with some of that other manly manga. You know the stuff men actually read.黒鷺死体宅配便 (1)by: 大塚英志/山崎峰水Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service #1by: Otsuka Eiji/Yamazaki HousuiRated: 18+Price $10.99Dark Horse/seinenYou there was a time where going to college basically guaranteed a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #258 - Berserk, Nodame and 0/6 Cough, cough! Oh god the voice box was almost rust shut, but I somehow got it to work after a long, long break. Yeah, I am sure many of you might not have minded the break. It was possibly refreshing not having me in your iTunes everyday. ^_^ Unfortunately, the holiday is over! The MangaCast is back on its original schedule and I have a heap of my own to get through over the next few weeks. We turn to mature manga again tonight. what's new right?! A little method to the madness though. We ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | YaoiCon 6 - Juné Wow it took us more than two weeks to get through it all but YaoiCon coverage has finally come to an end. Our last .mp3 is the Juné panel that took place on Sunday Oct 22. Juné was my big winner at this years YaoiCon. Queens of the Party... I don't know if that works. But you don't have to look at the number of titles they announced to figure out that this pub was everywhere at all times at this con. They brought in a great guest in Kawai Touko. The mangaka had a reasonably well attende ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaCurrynoMaki #11 - Kai Phenen Edition Manga Curry no MakiVolume #11 - November 2nd, 2006Kai Phenan EditionTrack (Starts):Intro: (01:10)MangaCon-ed - October Con recap. (04:35)Manga CrossField - Densha Otoko (13:00)+++Skype us (Skype ID: Mangamaki) or email us (mangacast@gmail.com) to let us know which version really is the best! CMX, Viz or Del Rey.+++Your Neighborhood Small Pub - Vertical, Broccoli, MediaBlasters, Icarus, DramaQueen, netcomics and their value and influence in the American Manga Market. (28:46)Curry recipe (41 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | YaoiCon 6 - Yaoi Press Have been experiencing abnormal behavior from the LJ over the last day plus. So I had a chance to work on the WP site today. Don't like how things are formatting over there. Really am considering a better solution right now. Augh.Well since things seem to be working here, most likely temporarily, I'll give you some audio from the Yaoi Press panel at YaoiCon. As I noted in the preview for this, I have not been following YP all that much of the past year or so. Many of you know its not the BL ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maki Side Dish #19: the HEAP (8 titles from the Restroom Pile) Jarred is off conquering those Iron Curtain nations for the next week or so. Wait, wait... Before you all leave me here alone, I have some audio from the Jarhead. In a Maki SideDish Special he calls the Heap, Jarred takes a look at a pile o' manga in a constant stream of komikkusu consciousness. 10 manga in 30ish minutes... that's just unfair guys. And check it... He even provided a POWER rankings for them all for those of you who don't want to listen. You know we have too many volumes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | YaoiCon 6 - Broccoli Books (partial sorry) & contest!! You might be wondering what Broccoli Books was doing at YaoiCon. Well, Dejiko's minions have been regulars at this con for a couple years now, selling raw BL and other goodies in the Dealers Room. Their library is not really known for BL. Until the Full Moon was called BL Light by some. But at their panel for YaoiCon 6 they revealed that BL properties are coming.... Unfortunately, I was in the Watanabe Asia panel when they announced that. So yeah another botched panel from me. But I do have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | YaoiCon 6 - Kawai Touko (MangaBio) Here we go! Finally, ready to launch out some more audio from YaoiCon 6. I wanted to just post what I had ready (the shorter panels) first but then I thought about it a bit. Decided I should try to give you the experience the way I went through it. Obviously, you won't get audio from me when I was crawling out of bed at 5:30a on Saturday but audio of my pre-morning orange juice voice at 9:30a is available. The first bit from Day Two has me sit down with DMP and Kawai Touko. You possibly kno ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Manga Recon Show #006 Direct Download: This entry is cross-posted on ninjaconsultant. These reviews are also posted (in text form) on my "Manga Recon" column on Popcultureshock.com Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, Volumes 1 & 2 by Bryan Lee O'Malley Published by Oni Press Who Would Like This Book: Fans of Love Roma and American indy comics lovers who think that most indy comics are too depressing. Who Would Hate This Book: Hardcore hipster haters - but even then they might like it. Robot: Super ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MangaNEXT 2006 - Vertical Rolling along with the audio from New Jersey, and Jack chimes in with the Vertical panel. Eddie Stemkowski, Marketing Manager, lead most of the conversation that covered a little bit of Vertical history, some news on their upcoming titles Ode to Kirihito and Terra he... and then went on to their novels. Much love at the Vertical Panel. I only wish I could have seen the images of the Kirihito release!VerticalVertical Inc., an indie publishing house specializing in contemporary Japanese ficti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #254 - Madtown Hospital, Kamunagara and Tower of the Future One of the things we try to do is look at as many pubs as possible. Yeah, Jack might be very Del Rey friendly and Jarred is a Dark Horse fan, but we try to look at the other pubs now and then. Today we look at some pubs that don't get enough respect. Two because we don't see their books on shelves and the other we might avoid.未来のうてな (1)by: 日渡 早紀Tower of the Future #1by: Hiwatana SakiRated: 13+Price $9.99CMX/shojoTakeru liked writing stories filled with adventure and fant ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Volume #250: Suzuka #1, D. GrayMan #1 and Qko Chan #1 Jack does shonen like no other.涼風 by: 瀬尾 公治Suzuka #1by: Seo Kouji18+$10.95Del Rey/ShonenLove at first sight? Yeah, it still happens. But Yamato is possibly going to regret ever having such a feeling in his heart. Yamato has fallen for Suzuka. And Suzuka is not about falling. She is solely about flying. As a high jumper she tries to aim for the sky and she cannot be held down by an average good-for-nothing like Yamato. Ｄ．Ｇｒ