On this (late) episode of Manga Mavericks, Colton & Lum cover as much of the last month’s worth of news as possible! Including a lot of industry news, cool new licenses and big pieces such as the news of Kodansha’s upcoming new manga app! Enjoy!
PODCAST BREAKDOWN:
00:00 – In Memoriam:
- Junnosuke Kuroda
- Shozo Iizuka
- Mitsuo Senda
- Maon Kurosaki
09:20 – Intro
16:11 – February Bookscan List
27:10 – Bookscan & ComicHub Top 20 Manga Titles of 2022 Lists
38:46 – Bookscan to become Circana Books
40:04 – Kevin Hamric discusses Viz Media manga sales trends over the past year
50:43 – Marc Visnick & Kae Winters on state of Tokyopop, Stu Levy steps back from US operations
55:47 – Manga Sales in the US and Japan
1:00:08 – Kadokawa to open manga, anime, and voice actor academies in April 2024
1:02:02 – Kodansha to launch new manga app
1:15:28 – Heroic Legend of Arslan enters final decisive battle
1:16:44 – Girlfriend Girlfriend enters “final conflict”
1:17:49 – Fish & Water ends
1:18:37 – I Want to Be a Wall ends
1:19:11 – Aharen ends on April 30th
1:20:05 – Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible gets epilogue chapter
1:21:00 – Shiro Usazaki’s latest one-shot
1:22:12 – Tsurun Hatomune’s new manga
1:24:07 – Bentame Jump
1:25:08 – Ryuhei Tamura’s new manga
1:27:57 – New short form sequel for Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan
1:30:33 – Rumiko Takahashi’s latest one-shot
1:31:39 – Kei Sanbe’s new manga
1:32:54 – Barakamon returns for limited serialization
1:33:48 – New Pokemon manga based on the new anime
1:34:41 – Ranking of Kings manga retranslation now available
1:36:50 – Yen Press simulpubs Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
1:38:08 – Azuki releases My Dear Detective and Seatmate Killer as ebooks
1:39:20 – Manga Planet & Futekiya merge libraries
1:42:13 – Shadow Over Insmouth omnibus volume
1:43:21 – Dark Horse releasing Gantz G & Blood Blockade Battlefront digitally
1:45:38 – Colton’s Licensing Highlights
2:01:44 – Lum’s Licensing Highlights
2:28:33 – Local manga will not settle late freelancer payments
2:34:37 – Pokemon News
2:40:38 – Wrap up
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