More Companies Get in on the Manga Biz
While the major English manga publishers all have variety in their releases, they also tend to have niches. VIZ Media has some of Japan's...
The Hunt for Anime Black Friday Deals: 2018 Edition
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and that means Black Friday is hot on its heels! So while you should by now know to check out the...
GameStop 2.0 and the Future of ThinkGeek
GameStop has been in a rough patch recently, and the new numbers were hardly reasons to celebrate -- for this past first quarter, which...
Deal Shopping for Beginners
On my own blog, I post deal roundups every now and then. One of the questions I get fairly regularly is,
"How do you find...
Retail Check-In
As you may know, businesses' fiscal (financial) years don't always correspond with calendar years. Nintendo, for instance, has their fiscal year run from April...
A Look-See at Azuki
Azuki is the latest manga reading service to launch. So while some of us here have shared their initial impressions already, it's my turn...
DIY Crowdfunding?
Kickstarter. Indiegogo. For some of you, those words are likely to stir up some strong feelings in many of you. Perhaps you got a...
Yen On In Your Ears
I love reading, and I'm sure a lot of you do too. But one of the drawbacks of picking up a book is that...
SONimation: The Sony × FUNimation Deal
When Crunchyroll and FUNimation announced their partnership, there were a lot of jokes about how they got married. One brought its extensive catalog of...
The Return of the DMI
It's been a long time coming for thousands of manga fans. After being ghosted by Digital Manga, Inc. (in fact, at times, it was...