Amazon Canceling More Manga and Light Novels Last summer, Amazon decided to cancel a number of light novels and manga titles from their store, both physical copies and digital copies. Some of the titles were ecchi in nature, to varying degrees. On a personal level, I was never going to read Oreimo or Eromanga Sensei,
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How the Pandemic Changed Manga Creation
September 5th, 2020 
AstroNerdBoy How the Pandemic Changed Manga Creation Hey gang! I was recently notified by @htSELFIE on Twitter that NHK World did a piece on how COVID-19 has impacted the manga industry. They interview Golgo 13 creator SAITO Takao-sensei, who still creates his manga with ink and paper. As such, Saito-sensei had to shut down production for
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Tags: AKAMATSU Ken, news, SAITO Takao 
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Akamatsu-sensei Worried About Foreign Regulation
August 16th, 2020 AstroNerdBoy Akamatsu-sensei Worried About Foreign Regulation A lot of stuff happened while I was on my road trip. I did notice that Amazon had started banning some manga and light novel titles because they no longer met Amazon’s unclear standards. And in this vein, I more recently became aware of Steam banning a PG English port
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Amazon Banning Some Manga & Light Novels
July 16th, 2020 AstroNerdBoy Amazon Banning Some Manga & Light Novels Hey gang. My Internet access is pretty poor at the moment, but I saw something disturbing and I thought I’d share it. It seems that Amazon is banning some light novels and manga titles, not only from Kindle, which is Amazon’s digital platform, but also physical copies as
Posted in AstroNerdBoy, Contributing Writers, Manga Tags: Amazon, J-Novel Club, news, Seven Seas 8 Comments »
Crunchyroll Scores “Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVA 4”
June 2nd, 2020 AstroNerdBoy Crunchyroll Scores “Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVA 4” Hey gang! Since Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVA 5 episode 2 was released on May 29 in Japan, I was looking for news on why it isn’t up on Crunchyroll. After all, Crunchyroll did license OVA 5. While in the process of doing this, I discovered that Crunchyroll just
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Fate/Grand Order Getting Major Update!
May 19th, 2020 AstroNerdBoy Fate/Grand Order Getting Major Update! Hey gang! Since I had this Fate/Grand Order video going up on YouTube, I thought I’d also share it on the blog here. As an aside, I’m really unhappy with my Blue Yeti mic at the moment. It worked great for a while, but as you hear in the
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A New “Inuyasha” Anime Spinoff “Yashahime”!
May 10th, 2020 AstroNerdBoy Β A New “Inuyasha” Anime Spinoff “Yashahime”! Back when I first got into anime, I watched stuff on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block in 2002. It was a great way to introduce me to a lot of different titles. One title that I was introduced to was a shounen series called Inuyasha. I really enjoyed the
UQ Holder 172 Delayed
May 9th, 2020 AstroNerdBoy UQ Holder 172 Delayed Hey gang! This is actually old news, but I’ve been so busy of late, I missed this news drop back on April 14, 2020. Basically, Bessatsu Shounen Magazine , the magazine in which the monthly UQ Holder is published, was forced to be delayed due to the insanity going on in
