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Pour One Out For JManga

By blueZhift | May 30th, 2013

I’m pouring one out for JManga. Today, May 30, 2013 is the last day of the service before its complete shutdown. Can’t really say why exactly it failed. I’ve read elsewhere that even its most popular titles only sold in the hundreds of copies. And I’ve read speculation that the marketing was not as good […]

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Kore Wa JManga Android App Desu Ka?

By blueZhift | October 10th, 2012

Is this the JManga Android app? I was greeted with the news of the release of the JManga Android app in the morning email and eagerly clicked through. And, now armed with the Android powered Nexus 7, I was looking forward to taking the new app for a test drive. Instead, I encountered a page […]

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Does JManga Comic-Con iPad Give-Away Herald App Announcement?

By blueZhift | July 12th, 2012

A couple of days ago I received a curious bit of news in my JManga newsletter email. JManga announced that a lucky person attending their panel at this week’s San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) would receive a free iPad. Anyone using the site knows that currently  manga cannot be read there on an iPad because the […]

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How To Read JManga Titles On The iPad

By blueZhift | February 19th, 2012

I’ve been reading manga on the JManga website on my laptop while patiently waiting for an iPad app for a few months now. The current JManga reader is Flash based which will not work on the iPad. I don’t really like reading manga on my laptop, as a result I really haven’t been finishing many […]

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JManga Announces Sale And iPad App In The Works

By blueZhift | October 5th, 2011

Online legal Japanese manga site JManga launched back in August with a lot of titles never before available to English speaking readers. One could see from the number of titles and the scope of the site that it was indeed an ambitious undertaking involving most of the major manga publishers in Japan. But early reports […]

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The Walking Dead: Tokyopop May Publish Hetalia vol 3

By blueZhift | September 12th, 2011

Since closing down their North American manga publishing operations back in May, it seems that Tokyopop’s manga aspirations are doing anything but resting in peace. The Tokyopop Facebook page is still active and recent news that they may still publish Hetalia volume 3 has brought mixed reactions. The plan calls for a limited retail print […]

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JManga Launches With Digital Titles New To US

By blueZhift | August 17th, 2011

Anime News Network reported that the JManga web site had launched with a lineup of titles that included manga never seen in print in the United States. These new titles include Macross Frontier. It was the Macross Frontier part that piqued my interest primarily. JManga is a web portal where manga can be purchased and […]

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