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New Manga for the Week of January 11
This week brings some good reading as several series near their close—and one last volume of a series that is about to disappear abruptly. My top pick is vol. 11 of Twin Spica, the story of a plucky...
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Viz Gets Digital With Shonen Jump Alpha—Starting Now!
It's almost time for Shonen Jump Alpha, Viz's experiment with digital manga, to launch, and they are offering some free manga this week so readers can get acquainted with the new magazine. Viz is...
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Shonen Jump Goes Digital This Week with Shonen Jump Alpha
This is the week that Viz joined the digital battle in earnest, with the debut of Shonen Jump Alpha, their online shonen manga magazine. While the monthly print version of Shonen Jump still has a few...
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Fairy Tail and Fairy Tales: New Manga for the Week of March 6
I am going to recommend something a little different this week: Vol. 1 of The Earl and the Fairy, a new series from Viz that's sort of a manga take on English children's literature—which means it's...
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Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! Naruto Uzumaki vs. Kamina, Kusanagi vs....
This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each...
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Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight!: Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) vs. Kusanagi (Ghost...
This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each...
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Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight!: The Sweet 16
This is MTV Geek's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight! A tournament-style, knock-down, drag-out, free-for-all, battle royale featuring your favorite anime, manga and Japanese pop-culture characters! Each...
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Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight!: Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) vs. L (Death Note),...
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Two Best-Sellers And An Outsider: New Manga For The Week
The two top-selling manga in the U.S., "Sailor Moon" and "Naruto," both have new volumes out this week, but my pick of the week isn't Japanese. The creator, Madeleine Rosca, is Australian, but her...
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This Week's New Manga: Shoujo Romance, Box Sets, and Giant Robots
It's a great week for manga readers, with two deluxe boxed sets, a new volume (finally!) of "Neon Genesis Evangelion," two new shoujo series, another new series that was created by Stan Lee, and a heap...
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Shonen Jump Alpha Goes Day and Date—with Japan
It's official: As of January 21, 2013, "Shonen Jump Alpha" will start releasing new chapters of all its weekly manga simultaneously with Japan. This doesn't exactly come as a surprise, although it's...
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Hunkered Down and Reading Manga: New Releases for the Week of February 6
Up here in the Northeast we're preparing for an epic snowstorm; and on our way back from the grocery store, we're going to stop by the comics shop and check out some new manga. After all, even if the...
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Manga Tipsheet: One Series Ends, Two More Begin
A new Ken Akamatsu series launches, a much-beloved shoujo series ends—such is the circle of manga life. This week's highlights also include another magical-school comedy, this one starring a bumbling...
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'Naruto' Creator Pens Gangster Short Story for Shonen Jump
Manga creator Masashi Kishimoto is well known in the English-speaking world as the creator of "Naruto," the ninja-school story that is a best-seller not only in Japan but also in the U.S., where it...
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Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight!: Sora ('Kingdom Hearts) vs. Naruto
Welcome to 2013's Battle Arena Otaku Fight! Fight!, MTV Geek's annual brawl between the biggest and best in characters from anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture characters. Not only will we get a...
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