digital manga

Over the past few years, the folks at Digital Manga has been steadily making an effort to collect some of Osamu Tezuka's more obscure work, and now they're back with their latest. Launching this week on Kickstarter, Digital Manga's latest campaign aims to reprint Under the Air, with stretch goals including new printings of Melody of Iron and The Crater.

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Longtime on-demand anime streaming powerhouse Crunchyroll is entering the "simulpub" manga business in a big way this week with a new monthly digital comics subscription service. The Web, iOS and Android compatible service is kicking off with a set of 12 Kodansha titles translated for English readers in 170 countries the same day the material debuts in its native Japan. The first wave of

Fans may want to buy up all the digital Viz Media manga they can while it can still be purchased for around $4.99 a volume, because the price is going up to $6.99 starting October 1, the publisher announced over the weekend. Print volumes will retain their price point of $9.99.

The big news out of Anime Expo in Los Angeles Thursday was word that Digital Manga, a Gardena, California, publisher that has successfully funded a handful of manga translation projects via Kickstarter over the past few years, will release Astro Boy creator Osamu Tesuka's entire library of work in North America. All of it.

Digital manga retailer and reading platform, JManga, has announced its imminent shutdown after just about two years in business. The company has ceased selling its in-app currency and is giving users until March 26 to redeem any unused "points" before operations cease completely on May 30...

Toys: Art Asylum has released designs for its upcoming Marvel Minimates Series 50 fan poll winners. I'm personally digging that Cyborg Spidey and Onslaught. Digital: Digital Manga will will suspend its print line from January through June of 2013 to focus on their digital line for a bit...

All manga is not pornography. When put like that, it just sounds like common sense, doesn't it? Sadly, it's an argument that one manga publisher had to make when Amazon suspended the entire Kindle output from Digital Manga Publishing, Inc...

Eats: Capcom Bar will serve dishes based on its Resident Evil and Phoenix Wright games, among others, when it opens in Japan on January 25. Manga: Digital Manga will bring Osamu Tezuka's Barbara manga in North America following last week's successful fundraising efforts on Kickstarter...

A progressive step in publishers availing themselves of the passion and creativity of the fan community, or a cunning plan to trap elusive pirates? That is the question some prolific "scanlators" are asking themselves this week since Digital Manga put out the call for translators, editors and writers to aid in "localizing" what they describe as thousands of Japanese comics in