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Kodansha’s seasonal anthology manga magazine ITAN will be launching vol. 0 on the 25th of March and it has been trying to become a new magazine concept which will be something that has never been done before.

The concept of the magazine is that it aims to be the magazine which will provide whatever the author feels is the best story he can think of, without any restrictions on genre.

The magazine’s policy is to not stick to conventional methods in running the magazine, and they’ve been doing stuff such as deciding the name of the magazine via a web poll and having the front cover and back cover of the magazine done via a pixiv contest.

They’re also hoping to spin off web manga from works that are on the magazine, and hopefully ultimately become a magazine where the actual magazine and the web will complement each other.

Via: ITmedia

Kodansha seems to be experimenting a bit recently with their love plus stuff and this magazine. Hopefully something cool comes out of all this and pull them back from their losses in recent years.

Kannagi author Takenashi Eri’s actual brother and fellow mangaka Yuuki Shinichi will apparently be doing a Kannagi spinoff manga called Kanpachi on Comic REX, the magazine which Kannagi was originally running on before it went on hiatus due to Takenashi falling to illness.

I loved both Takenashi Eri and Yuuki Shinichi’s stuff back then since their anthology days. Yuuki is always extra awesome when his work is based on somebody else’s existing work so this should hopefully be nice.

Via: 結城の小屋

Data is collected using Mangaoh Club’s adult comics list. The definition of adult comic refers to the comics that have the label saying that the comic is for adults only.

Anthologies are not included in counting the number of titles, but stuff such as limited edition, renewed edition , special edition etc are counted separately instead of being treated as the same title.

Also this only deals with number of titles and not the number of books that were printed per title.

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Voting also ended for the best eromanga of 2009.

Back when Maid yome was released, it was apparently already sold out in some places even before the official release date because of early releases, and places like Akiba Toranoana 1 and Melonbooks were sold out on the first day of release of the book. Still out of stock in Amazon Japan right now.

There were a total of 568 eromanga released in 2009 that were eligible in the voting.

Results from 2008 and 2007.

1st place (22 votes)
Maid yome – Kizuki Aruchu

2nd place (19 votes)
Koisuru pantsu – Okada Kou

3rd place (18 votes)
Mai Favorite – Kisaragi Gunma

4th place (14 votes)
Chijou no hito – Tsukino Jougi

5th place (11 votes)
JC ecchi – Shiwasu no Okina

6th place (10 votes)
Muchipuri – Arima Zin

6th place (10 votes)
Tayutayu – Yamatogawa

8th place (9 votes)
Namanaka – Nora Shinji

8th place (9 votes)
Hajimeteno – Zukiki

10th place (8 votes)
Honey Blonde – Fukuda-da

10th place (8 votes)
Hajimete koi wo shita – Asagi Ryuu

10th place (8 votes)
Sayonara, oppai. – Aoki Kanji

10th place (8 votes)
I Love! – Yarii Shimeta

Bonus: 2009 sales ranking from Akihabara Toranoana A
Via: Akibablog

1st place
Maid yome – Kizuki Aruchu

2nd place
Mai Favorite – Kisaragi Gunma

3rd place (voted 1st in 2008)
Tsundero – Takeda Hiromitsu

4th place
Chijou no hito – Tsukino Jougi

5th place
Lucky na hi – Inu

6th place
Momozono gakuen danshiryou ni youkoso! – Sameda Koban

7th place
Konya no Sikorsky – F4U

8th place
Honey Blonde – Fukuda-da

9th place
Boitore! – PONPON

10th place
Koisuru pantsu – Okada Kou

Yokota Takuma (23)’s manga submission Senka ni saku has been announced to have won the honorable mention award in the 29th Jump Treasure newcomer’s manga award.

Yokota is also known as YOKO on 2ch and he’s the artist for the web manga version of Onanie Master Kurosawa.

His manga will be available for reading online soon on Shounen Jump’s website.

Basically this means he has a chance to get on Akamaru now and maybe sometime in the far future he’ll get onto Shounen Jump with some luck and some vipper power.

Online store Amiami has started taking preorders for One Piece oppai mouse pads by Morimotosangyou. Normally this wouldn’t be any interesting at all because doujin mouse pads do these kinds of things all the time, but it’s officially licensed this time!

Links: Hancock, Nami, Robin

Kazumi Yoshiyuki (aka Matsumoto Drill Kenkyuujo), author of Konohana, has written on his blog that the censorship wave has finally hit Champion RED Ichigo as the roughs for his latest chapter of Konohana has been rejected by his editor with the reason given being that it’s too erotic.

In a follow up post, he says he talked to his editor and was told that the “guys on top” have their eyes on the magazine now and Kazumi has to cut back on the ero.

I’m more surprised that Ichigo lasted so long on the extreme edge of all-ages manga without causing any big problems! Akibaos(NSFW) has some shots from the December issue for those unfamiliar with the magazine (any kid can buy this magazine).

Via: ２のまとめR

Araki Hirohiko: (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

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Ichijinsha has announced that they’re starting a new manga magazine called “WAaI! boys in skirts” and it’ll be about… boys in skirts. The magazine is slated to start in Spring 2010.

They were giving out fliers for the magazine at Comiket.

Also there was already a magazine with real people before so this is strangely not that new and exciting.

Comic Gear, the magazine that was trying a new way to do commercial manga which had garnered a mixed reaction, has announced that vol.3 which would have gone on sale in January has been canceled, and the magazine will cease publication.

The reason given is that they had looked at the commercial performance of the magazine till vol.2 and discussed the future prospects for vol.3 onwards with the publisher Houbunsha and had to come to the conclusion that the magazine will cease publication.

The manga that were serialized on the magazine will go their separate ways, and they advise to check the individual mangaka personal sites for info.

Also I’m pretty sure the reason the magazine failed was less the concept but more that they came into the waning magazine industry with a author line up that was full of doujinshi people.