Shonen Jump Chapters Free in English

	Screw piracy! You want to read manga for free, at the same time it’s available in its home country? Viz is there for you! As of next Monday, December 17, the manga publisher will be releasing chapters digitally weekly, simultaneously with Japan, on shonenjump.com or via their app. Titles include One Piece, My Hero Academia, Boruto, and Dragon Ball Super. What’s the catch? To read chapters beyond the three most recent, you have to become a member for archive access, […]
Screw piracy! You want to read manga for free, at the same time it’s available in its home country? Viz is there for you! As of next Monday, December 17, the manga publisher will be releasing chapters digitally weekly, simultaneously with Japan, on shonenjump.com or via their app. Titles include One Piece, My Hero Academia, Boruto, and Dragon Ball Super. What’s the catch? To read chapters beyond the three most recent, you have to become a member for archive access, which is where they get their money. That’s $1.99 a month, which seems totally reasonable. There’s even a seven-day free trial. The publisher says: Our goal has always been about making manga more readily available to more people. By making the newest content available to everyone for free, we give manga fans an official and trustworthy source as an alternative to pirate sites. This will help grow support for creators with official versions. Also, free samples get people reading, which drives demand for print versions and digital “back issues”. Instead of higher cover prices, this approach seems to go for attracting quantity audiences. As the video points out, the magazine brand is celebrating its 15th anniversary, having started in print in 2003, with a digital version in 2012. That digital accumulation of chapters is going away, in favor of serializing the titles directly. Let’s hope this is successful enough that it gets a companion title called Shojo Beat. Link : Shonen Jump Chapters Free in English
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Now’s the Time to Buy Your Digital Manga!

	Kodansha has announced, for the next week, an almost 50% off sale for over 800 volumes of digital manga. This is the time to buy, as $6 (for example) makes a lot more sense for a digital volume than $11. Sale ends Monday, November 12. If you’re looking for some recommendations, here are series I’ve enjoyed: Is Kichijoji the Only Place to Live? — reviewed here Tokyo Alice — reviewed here Those Summer Days Perfect World The Full-Time Wife Escapist […]
Kodansha has announced, for the next week, an almost 50% off sale for over 800 volumes of digital manga. This is the time to buy, as $6 (for example) makes a lot more sense for a digital volume than $11. Sale ends Monday, November 12. If you’re looking for some recommendations, here are series I’ve enjoyed: Is Kichijoji the Only Place to Live? — reviewed here Tokyo Alice — reviewed here Those Summer Days Perfect World The Full-Time Wife Escapist But there are a ton more to check out, and all of the series have a preview chapter available if you navigate through the sale page. Link : Now’s the Time to Buy Your Digital Manga!
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New Manga Publisher Denpa Books Has First Releases to Preorder

	New manga publisher Denpa Books will be putting out its first two titles this year, and they’re now available to preorder at Amazon.com. Both are due out November 22. Inside Mari volume 1 by Shuzo Oshimi (Happiness, The Flowers of Evil) is $12.95 for 192 pages. It’s a body-swap story. College dropout Isao Komori wakes up one morning to find himself in the body of a high school girl. How did this happen and what happened to the girl whose […]
New manga publisher Denpa Books will be putting out its first two titles this year, and they’re now available to preorder at Amazon.com. Both are due out November 22. Inside Mari volume 1 by Shuzo Oshimi (Happiness, The Flowers of Evil) is $12.95 for 192 pages. It’s a body-swap story. College dropout Isao Komori wakes up one morning to find himself in the body of a high school girl. How did this happen and what happened to the girl whose body his is possessing? Pez by Hiroyuki Asada (Tegami Bachi) is 72 color pages for $24.95. In this full-color collection set in a post-apocalyptic world, Pez and Decosuke cross this now desolate landscape searching for signs of life. Along the way, they experience a number of moments that remind them of what it meant to be alive and why their lives are so precious. Previously published in pages of the legendary ROBOT anthology, this is the definitive release of this short series. The books are also available to order from your local comic shop in the current Previews catalog. Inside Mari volume 1 is Diamond code SEP18 2236, while Pez is SEP18 2237. They can also be ordered from online retailer RightStuf, and the publisher is looking to add more retailers in future. (While researching, I discovered that “denpa” basically means crazy person, someone who hears voices or has delusions. What a great title!) Link : New Manga Publisher Denpa Books Has First Releases to Preorder
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Manga in Real Life: Fired for Dating

	It\’s a common plotline in the many manga series that deal with some aspect of the entertainment industry: “We can\’t reveal our romantic interest in each other because we\’ll lose our careers! Our managers won\’t let us date!” Now, it\’s happened in real life, and it made the NY Times. Two of South Korea\’s pop idols, HyunA and E\’Dawn, have learned of the painful cost of falling in love and declaring their relationship in public: On Thursday, they were fired […]
It\’s a common plotline in the many manga series that deal with some aspect of the entertainment industry: “We can\’t reveal our romantic interest in each other because we\’ll lose our careers! Our managers won\’t let us date!” Now, it\’s happened in real life, and it made the NY Times. Two of South Korea\’s pop idols, HyunA and E\’Dawn, have learned of the painful cost of falling in love and declaring their relationship in public: On Thursday, they were fired by their management company…. “No dating” clauses were once common in the contracts of young K-pop stars, according to industry experts, with many managers saying that publicly disclosed romances would undermine their idols\’ allure and careers. Avoiding romantic relationships, or at least keeping them secret, remains an unspoken rule. From left to right: E\’Dawn, HyunA, and unidentified In this case, rumors were out, the management company denied it, and the stars then went public with the truth, that they\’d been dating for more than two years. Fan response, supporting the performers, may have crashed the company\’s phone lines and website. “The K-pop idol industry is still based on the agency owning the idol, whose character the company creates,” said Kim Zakka, a music critic in South Korea. “Since the business worked based on the fantasy of the fan having a pseudo-relationship with the idol, the idol dating in real life breaks the business model.” Since HyunA\’s character was built to invite “sex fantasy” among fans, the revelation that HyunA was dating a lesser-known peer may have led Cube to conclude that its business model for her would no longer work, Mr. Kim said. Since the company\’s stock price dropped on news of their decision, they may reconsider. I\’m glad to see so many fans put supporting the real people\’s happiness over perception of a false idol availability. Link : Manga in Real Life: Fired for Dating
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Seven Seas Announces Yuri, Memoir Manga Releases

In amongst more isekai titles — although the press releases meant I learned that word, which describes a normal person trapped in another universe, usually a fantasy or video game world — Seven Seas will be releasing some interesting-sounding titles next year. The most prominent is Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist\’s Journey, a manga autobiography by Akiko Higashimura, who created the much-loved Princess Jellyfish and Tokyo Tarareba Girls. It\’s due out May 21, 2019. High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing if she ever wants to reach her goal. Looking for an easy fix, she signs up for an art class, thinking all her problems will soon be solved. She\’s in for a surprise: her new instructor is a sword-wielding taskmaster who doesn\’t care about manga one bit. But maybe this unconventional art teacher is just what she needs to realize her dreams! Also of interest is a yuri (girls\’ love) title about working women called I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up. (Great title!) It\’s the story of a young professional woman who creates a fake marriage with a female co-worker to keep her parents off her back about being single. As told by Kodama Naoko, the fake relationship might turn into something more. It\’s due out June 11, 2019. There\’s also a more “sensual” yuri collection by Nagashiro Rouge coming May 7. Eve x Eve contains six short stories by the same author. (The isekai titles are My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! by Satoru Yamaguchi and Nami Hidaka, which puts a woman into an otome (romance) video game, out July 30, 2019; Mushoku Tensei: Roxy Gets Serious by Rifujin na Magonote and Shoko Iwami, a spin-off of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation out April 30, 2019; and Skeleton Knight in Another World by Ennki Hakari, KeG, and Akira Sawano, in which a gamer wakes up in a game as a skeleton. The manga starts July 9 with the light novels beginning earlier, on June 11.) Link : Seven Seas Announces Yuri, Memoir Manga Releases

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DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis

DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis, the newest original animated movie, is terrific, inspiring adventure for kids of all ages! (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me a free review copy.) It begins with a charming prologue where a young Wonder Woman, before she\’s left Themyscira, is playing on the beach with her kanga Jumpa. (The pet is kind of like a super-intelligent horse, with obvious personality, but shaped like a kangaroo. Oddly, the hero refers to herself as “Princess Wonder Woman”.) She\’s attacked by a young Mera (riding a seahorse named Storm, nice cameo) and her sister Siren. Siren has obtained the Book of Legends, a magical volume that she\’s going to use to take over Atlantis to give them a home. Mera (Erica Lindbeck) asks all the right questions — why can\’t we just ask them to take us in? — but believes Siren (also Erica Lindbeck) despite her obvious selfishness and hunger for power. Between Wonder Woman\’s young warrior skills and a set of accidents, the sisters are stopped. Cut to present day. In Commissioner Gordon\’s class, Hawkgirl (Nika Futterman) has found the Book of Legends. (She contributes archaeological knowledge more than flight powers in this story, a pleasant change.) Wonder Woman (Grey Griffin) freaks out. The girls work together to lock it up, combining Batgirl\’s (Mae Whitman) science, Bumblebee\’s (Teala Dunn) tech, and Raven (new character!)\’s magic. Supergirl (Anais Fairweather) works with them as both tester and welding torch. Raven (Tara Strong) is concerned about her powers and so wants to be left alone, but Harley Quinn (also Tara Strong) keeps trying to be her friend. I would never have thought to put those two together, but they work surprisingly well. Unfortunately, a glitch causes two girls to have their powers swapped, as a side plot showing them learning what each other can do. (If you want to see which ones, it\’s in the trailer.) It\’s a very nice touch that they keep their friendship and help each other after the transformation, instead of a more cliched approach of them being jealous or depressed that they can\’t do what they used to. When the book is recaptured by Siren, a team works together to stop her, adding Katana (Stephanie Sheh), Frost (Danica McKallar), Flash (Josh Keaton), and Beast Boy (Greg Cipes) to the group for this water-bound adventure. They end up in Atlantis, helping Aquaman (Max Mittelman) regain his throne. Meanwhile, Starfire (Hynden Walch) is making friends with Raven, echoing the Titans team. There\’s a lot going on in this hour and fifteen minutes, which keeps things interesting and viewers involved. The humor is welcome, making these movies more fun than the usual DC animated films. The pets are cool and the friendship welcoming. There are a ton of characters in this movie, which is a great use of the DC universe, and it\’s wonderful to see them all working together. Lots of them get their own focus moments, pleasing fans of particular characters. Writer Shea Fontana really knows the group and how to tell stories with them that balance adventure, fun, and positive messages. The big battle, involving a city flooding, is especially timely, and it\’s nice to see attention being paid to rescuing people as well as fighting fish monsters. I found myself wondering why Mera and Siren were wandering the sea alone; there is a reference to their father being imprisoned, but no mention of their mother or where she was. Such is sadly typical of superhero fiction and animated movies, though. Also on this disc (as the only extra) is the 45-minute “Super Hero High” special that aired in 2016. It\’s about Supergirl\’s first day at the school, after she\’s been on earth only a month. The message, to “believe in your super self”, is a tad obvious at times, but it\’s fun seeing more with this team. If you\’d like more superhero adventure, check out the first two movies: DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year and DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games.

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