Never in doubt

Ah, what would we do without Viz's shoujo releases? PreCur checks out Doubt!!, an ugly-duckling-turned-swan comedy.

Love Manga catches some potential new releases from Viz, including:
Full Moon wo Sagashite (magical girl ... with cancer)
Cain (ties in with Godchild, one of the new Shôjo Beat titles)
Ouran Host Club
Genbu Kaiden
And yeah, like Immelda said, this wouldn't be the first time that Viz titles suddenly pop up on online retailers without the publisher formally announcing it. It's annoying when they do that!

"Westernized manga" isn't everyone's style, but it's Nathan Maurer's, as the Comic Book Bin interviews the winner of Tokyopop's 3rd "Rising Stars of Manga" contest and creator of Atomic King Daidogan.

Oh noez! Japanese manga retailer Mandarake is turning into the manga equivalent of a fanboy comic book store.

In the flagship stores in larger cities it focuses on the extreme Otaku market, stocking a large number of doujinshi, cells and premium items, while its stores in other cities focus on more mainstream items. Overall the stores sales of books and other publications is decreasing, while its "otaku" sales have increased.

That's sad.