Is out as well.
Volume 29 is delayed a month. It will be coming out next month here.
Is out as well.
Volume 29 is delayed a month. It will be coming out next month here.
Is out.
I’ll post my notes for this volume after I’ve received my copy.
I’m translating/adapting this 2-volume manga by Aki.
Yesterday I was at the Keibundo bookstore in Ogikubo for Suzuki-sensei’s autograph session commemorating the publication of volume 10.
While we were waiting in line, we were able to look at two binders containing b&w manuscripts and the actual magazine pages, so you could compare the two. The binders also contained many color illustrations as well.
I had to fill in a paper with my name (as would be written by the sensei) and who my favorite character is. I wrote Mizuki, thus here’s the autographed page:

As souvenirs, I received a color plastic file:

A “drawn just for this autograph session information paper”:

And a photo-size printout of a new year color illustration:

Last month’s Nikkei Entertainment magazine had a listing of top 50 best-selling mangaka. FYI, I list the top 10 here, together with the number of their books sold since Jan 2010:
Eiichiro Oda (ONE PIECE) – 54,856,000 copies
Masashi Kishimoto (NARUTO) – 11,035,000 copies
Karuho Shiina (Kimi ni Todoke) – 8,768,000 copies
Hiro Mashima (FAIRY TAIL) – 7,743,000 copies
Taito Kubo (BLEACH) – 6,954,000 copies
Takeshi Obata (Bakuman) – 6,264,000 copies
Hideaki Sorachi (Gintama) – 6,227,000 copies
Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist) – 5,883,000 copies
Hikaru Nakamura (Saint Young Men) – 5,541,000 copies
Hiroshi Shiibashi (Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan) – 4,623,000 copies
Black Butler comes in 26th with 2,358,000 copies sold.
When I taught my manga translation lesson, COBS ONLINE, a portal site for business people in their 20s, attended my lesson and interviewed me.
Here’s their article.
I was in Ikebukuro yesterday for this event. Square Enix had some Pandora Hearts manuscripts on display, but it was in the same area as the cafe space and the limited-items shop space, and there was such a loooong line, I gave up and went to the BL area instead.
As long I didn’t join the lines for buying stuff, the area wasn’t that crowded, and I was able to take a good look at color and b&w manuscripts that various mangaka had on display. There were also panel displays of “let’s get through this earthquake disaster” messages and illustrations.
As expected, there was a huge line for the Tiger&Bunny purikura. There were big panels from the anime where you could take photos, and original color illustrations by Katsura Masakazu on display.
The Lawson convenience store chain is doing a Eva campaign, and I got a keitai strap when I bought two snacks:

I guess there’ll be more goods available when the third movie is released next fall.
At last month’s comitia, Iwaoka-sensei came out with a Saturn Apartments doujinshi. Here’s the cover:

And the back cover:

The doujinshi contains a short manga where Jin and Mitsu go clean windows on the upper level, a short manga that takes place right after the final chapter (and before the epilogue), and a “what they’re doing five years later” for each of the characters.
There’s a comment from Iwaoka-sensei’s one assistant, and she mentions that she only did screentone work, and that EVERYTHING was drawn by Iwaoka-sensei herself, including all the inking. This must be the major reason why each installment was kept to 20 pages.
Last Sunday I went to Tokyo Big Sight for comitia, and found this omiyage in the souvenir shop:

They’re maids, but they’re all guys. Inside the box was a trading card:

And each cookie has the face of a maid printed on it:
