Now that Rumiko Takahashi, creator of Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku, Urusei Yatsura & InuYasha has finally finished up the InuYasha manga, AnimeNewsNetwork is reporting she’s working on a new manga, which will be serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday this spring, the same magazine that ran InuYasha. The manga has already been licensed by Viz.
As yet, there is no information available on the manga whatsoever. The first volume will be available in English by the end of the year.
chad writes, Here’s a list of the 10 most expensive comics available for sale at the 2009 New York Comic Con. No surprises as to which comic is #1, but it was one that I didn’t expect to be up for sale.
There’s some pretty impressive stuff on that list, some of which, DC & Marvel, if you haven’t already made them available in Showcase Presents or Essential collections, needs to be made available. I want to read them!
Neil Gaiman’s stunning, horrific children’s novel has been adapted for the big screen—with model animation and three dimensions.
Last week’s coup leads to civil war and general kickassery as folks loyal to Adama try to reclaim the Galactica and the folks of the Quorum develop grave doubts about Zarek.
This column is early. Reviews of “Final Crisis: Revelations,” this week’s “Smallville,” the latest issue of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” and the complete “Final Crisis #1-7” are still late, and may not be caught up by the end of the weekend.
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Sci-Fi Wire is reporting that Viz Media has launched a new imprint, Haikasoru, to bring translate Japanese SF and Fantasy novels into English and release them in the US. The imprint will mainly focus on “Light Novels” shorter novels, often serialized in Japanese SF magazines.
A not-insignificant amount of Japanese Anime has begun to be adapted from Light Novels instead of Manga (notably the “Full Metal Panic” series, as well as the “Crest/Banner of the Stars” series and well before that the “Slayers” series. The first novel scheduled to be released is The Lord of the Sands of Time by Issui Ogawa.
Did you hear the one about the vampire, the werewolf, and the ghost who share a flat?
Are any of our Brit readers following this mini-series, currently running on BBC? And should the rest of us watch out for it?
We’ve got a review for you of the first installment of the “Compilation of Final Fantasy VII” series that Square Enix was putting out. Yes, it’s been out for 3 years, but it still may be worth a shot.
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The remains of the the world’s largest snakes have been discovered in a Columbian mine, a Columbian expedition identifies ten new amphibian species, including crunchy spiky frogs, the latest extrasolar planet has a twenty-hour year, Team FREDNET have developed a sort of open-source Lunar Segway….
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The Incognito reprint I mentioned last week has been postponed until next week with the release of issue 2, so you’ve got another week to make sure you get your copy. The complete list of this week’s releases is available here.
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