Well, the guy I really, really hate has finally shown his ugly face. I think they made him even more unlikeable in this anime adaptation. He seriously has some problems and I find it just amazing how some people can be swayed by the words of idiots. Sound like a lot of Politicians anyone? On top of that, he only cares about himself so I would love to see how he will deal one on one with a zombie. I don’t see how in a realistic situation where this guy can live this long.

So far, everything has been still quiet on the action front for the most part. The only action that has been taken recently is the website MangaToshokan has been hit with a C&D (Cease and Desist) from what appears to be Yen Press and Tokyopop. It also seems that the website Mangafox has reinstated many of its Mature content as well as reinstated many of its removed series such as Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece.

Outside of that, none of the so called projects from Crunchyroll nor OpenManga have shown much progress outside of talks. Openmanga has been fairly active on facebook with asking those who are part of the facebook group what they want in Openmanga. Crunchyroll has been kind of in the dark though, outside of an interview.

This was just announced a few moments ago on ANN, it seems that Crunchyroll and Bitway have allied together and are starting a digital manga reader that will accompany Crunchyroll’s already vast amount of Anime. Bitway has announced that they will be investing $750,000 into Crunchyroll this month as part of the partnership.

Sometime today, June 18, you will see the blog portion of the site undergo some changes. I will be updating Wordpress and the site theme to their recent versions. In order to update to the current version of the theme, all settings for it will be lost and I will have to make modifications all over again. This should not affect viewers too much other than the buttons at the

Well, there is more news related to manga going on. It seems that Digital Manga Publishing CEO has told ANN that they “[intend] to establish a new online venture in which fans can provide “scanlations” of manga titles that would be distributed digitally and legally, with the permission of their Japanese owners. Their goal is to offer over a thousand to possibly thousands of manga titles. Only problem? The company has a focus in the ‘boys love’ but is wanting to get into more genres after getting started and then possible moving into novels. Basically, they told ANN that they are setting up a business model that will allow them, the Japanese publishers, manga-ka, and translators a cut of the digital sales. Revenue is expected to come from advertising and possible future anime or other form of adaptation.