JManga to Shut Down in May 2013

JManga sent out an email to the site’s subscribers to announce that it will be “concluding its retail and viewing services on May 30th 2013.” The email also provided the following schedule for its service shutdown:

JManga Point Distribution and Sales Termination
March 13, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. (PDT)

Digital Manga Purchasing Service Termination
March 26, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. (PDT)

Manga Viewing Service Termination
May 30, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. (PDT)

JManga members with unused JManga Paid Points as of March 13 will be issued Amazon Gift Cards. JManga will process refunds between March 21 and March 25, 2013.

JManga7, the service with unlimited access that JManga hasd launched, shut down on Wednesday, March 13, 2013.

JManga’s Additions for January 17, 2013

JManga has announced that it will be adding the following manga volumes to its site on January 17, 2013:

• Miyabi Fujieda’s Ameiro Kochakan Kandan (1)
• Ru Tatuki’s PoyoPoyo’s Observation Diary (6)
• Naoyuki Ochiai’s Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance (4)

JManga’s New Additions for January 3 and January 10, 2013

JManga has announced that titles that will be added to its site on January 3, 2013 and January 10, 2013.

The manga titles being added to the site on January 3, 2013 are:

• Michiro Ueyama’s Tsumanuda Fight Town (2)
• Naoyuki Ochiai’s Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance (3)
• saxyun’s Yurumates (4)

The manga titles being added to the site on January 10, 2013 are:

• Satoshi Mizukami’s Hoshi no Samidare: The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer (3)
• Masakazu Ishiguro’s Sore de mo Machi wa Mawatteiru (10)
• Fumiko Shusai’s We Immediately Swing at Foul Balls
• Fumiko Shusai’s Pochi and Tatma
• Rensuke Oshikiri’s Pico-Pico Boy

JManga’s Additions for December 27, 2012

JManga has announced that the following five manga titles will be added to their site on Thursday, December 27, 2012:

• Sakura Kinoshita and Kazuko Higashiyama’s Tactics (11)
• Tae Sano’s Morita-san wa Mukuchi (5)
• Yuiji Aniya’s DROPS
• Asuka Katsura’s Don’t Disturb Me and Him. Please.
• Rensuke Oshikiri’s Pico-Pico Boy

JManga’s New and Upcoming Releases

Here are the manga titles that JManga added to their site this week:

• Meme Higashiya’s Recorder and Randsell (3)
• Ru Tatuki’s PoyoPoyo’s Observation Diary (5)
• Haruko Kumota’s My Darling Kitten Hair (2)
• Nanae Chrono’s Peacemaker Kurogane (4)
• Tomoko Naka’s Madame Joker (3)
• Karuho Shiina’s Crazy for You (4)
• Yukari Ichijo’s Pride (4)

Here are the manga titles that JManga will be adding to their site next week:

• Namori’s Yuruyuri (2)
• Akiko Morishima’s Hanjuku-Joshi (1)
• Kan Sakurai and Jun Hayase’s Ekiben Hitoritabi (4)

JManga’s New Additions for December 6, 2012

JManga has announced that the following titles will be added to their site on December 6, 2012:

• Karuho Shiina’s Crazy for You (4)
• Yukari Ichijo’s Pride (4)
• Natsumi Konjoh’s Otaku-Type Delusion Girl (7)
• Kenji Sonishi’s Neko Ramen (3)
• Takako Shimura’s The devil is so cute
• Wataru Akiduki’s The Perfect Girlfriend (5-6)
• Noriko Ogiwara and Haruhiko Momokawa’s The Good Witch of the West -Side Story-

JManga’s Additions for November 29, 2012

JManga has announced the manga titles that will be added to its site on November 29, 2012:

• Roots and Piyo’s Teekyu! (1)
• ESE’s Kemonogumi
• Hadzime Mikuni’s Gokujo Drops (1)
• Masakazu Ishiguro’s Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru (9)
• Nanae Chrono’s Peacemaker Kurogane (3)
• Takako Shimura’s Sweet Blue Flowers (1)

JManga’s New Additions for November 22, 2012

JManga has announced that the site will be adding the following titles on November 22, 2012:

• Mayumi Azuma’s Elemental Gelade (2)
• Seiuchiroh Todono’s Eleven Soul (1)
• Yukari Ichijo’s Pride (3)
• Karuho Shiina’s Crazy for You (3)
• Variety Art Works’ The Narrow Road to the Deep North
• Maru Nagao’s Edo Nekoe Jubei Otogizoshi (5)

JManga’s Translation Battle 2012 Underway

JManga Co., Ltd., Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs’ “Project to construct a Media Arts Information Base / Consortium” and the Digital Comic Association of Japan have announced that open voting for Manga Translation Battle 2012 has officially begun.

The contest has been narrowed down to 11 finalists, and manga fans worldwide may read all of the finalists’ submissions for free online. Readers can then cast their votes for the top manga translator on the official Manga Translation 2012 page. Online voting polls will be open until December 2, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. (US Pacific Time). Final winners will be announced in December 2012.

There were three titles that contestants could translate: Tomonori Inoue’s COPPELION, Nana Haruta’s Chocolate Cosmos, and Akira Saso’s Shindo.

In addition to the winner being selected through open voting, translators will be judged on their Japanese-English translation abilities by a panel of judges: Deb Aoki (manga editor for About.com), William Flanagan (manga translator), Jonathan “Jake” Tarbox (manga translator), and Ian Condry (Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

One winning translator will be chosen for each series, and the best out of three will go on to become the Grand Prize Winner.

JManga’s New Additions for November 16, 2012

JManga has announced that the site will be adding the following titles to their site on November 16, 2012:

• Natsuho Shino’s Takatoh-sanchi no Komatta Jijyou
• Rokuroichi’s A Transparent Orange in the Lip
• Wadapen’s Tokyo Cycle Girl (1)
• Mai Nakahara, Kana Ueda, Sayuri Yahagi, Saori Hayama, and Tatsunari Sakuraba’s Koetama (1)