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Sakura Con - Saturday - Dark Horse
 For the last
four months we've been waiting for Super Manga Blast, the co-production
between Toren Smith with Studio Proteus of California and Pat Duke with
Radio Comix of Texas. Sakura Con was Super Manga Blast's coming out party,
with the book being released a couple of days before the convention. Mike
Hansen, the editor of Dark Horse's monthly manga titles, was at Sakura
Con to celebrate the new title's release. |
 Super Manga
Blast will feature unreleased stories from old favorites (Oh My Goddess,
3x3 Eyes and What's Michael were in the first edition) and titles that
are new to the translated manga market (Shadow Star and Seraphic Feather).
Hansen said readers shouldn't expect to see the What's Michael stories
about a porn movie involving cats and a man who shoots cats in Manga Blast.
The new title eventually will be a showcase for series which take several
episodes to develop their plots, he said. |
 Fans of Shadow
Lady from Masakazu Katsura will be sad to learn that the series is moving
into its final editions. Hansen said that Dark Horse has printed nearly
all of the series, and when it's finished there'll be nothing left to print.
He also noted that Shadow Lady has been Dark Horse's slowest-selling manga
title (while Oh My Goddess has been among the best sellers). There's a
lot more of Goddess and Blade of the Immortal on the way, since both series
are still running in Kodansha manga in Japan. |
 Masamune Shirow
fans will have to continue to be very patient in waiting for the follow-up
to the Ghost in the Shell series, Hansen said. "Shirow likes to take his
time. He's one of the slowest, but because he's so good, he can afford
to be that way." No one at Dark Horse seems to know when the new Ghost
series will be published. |
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