Adult Swim is going to start showing the Bleach anime this fall.
Part 1 of Polite Dissent’s medical annotations for the manga Monster.

I’m sort of bummed that the All Ages Blog doesn’t seem to be updating anymore, because when it was active it did a good job of rounding up news about all ages comics.
Tegan points to the news that Castle Waiting is indeed coming back from Fantagraphics, more info at Studio Olio.
Review of all-ages comic [...]

I’m not sure what to think about this series of commercials starring SMAP as Gatchaman (link may try to install weird active-x thing on your browser), but it makes a strange sort of sense that the boy band who used to wear feathered outfits would protray anime heroes with bird shaped helmets. I guess the [...]

Anime News Network writes that Studio Ghibli’s next project is going to be based on Ursula K. LeGuin’s Earthsea books. Interesting. If any anime studio has to adapt these books, Studio Ghibli would be my pick. Look, Ged’s talking to a dragon!

Anime News Network posted this link to an article from Sunrise about the process of making anime.
ICV2 talks to Viz VP
Yet Another Comics Blog Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Drive
What Not to Crochet
Fugly Bags

The final issue of animefringe has reviews of two of the anime series I’m enjoying right now, Samurai Seven, and Paradise Kiss
Rightstuf is running a very brief 33% off Tokyopop merchandise sale. The sale is over on the 7th.

Many good manga & anime links from earlier this week:
New issue of animefringe is up, I enjoyed the reviews of Samurai Seven (mixes The Seven Samurai with cyborgs) and Trinity Blood (a show about a vampire vampire hunter who happens to be a priest). I love shows with samurai and vampire vampire hunters, those are [...]

One nice thing about the way manga properties spread across various media in Japan is being able to see an anime adaptation of one of your favorite manga. I don’t tend to watch much anime on my computer because of my ancient eyes, but I decided to seek out the first episode of the Paradise [...]

Joystiq on video games and anime popularity
You can get your webcomics fix with Lea Hernandez two ways soon, she’s starting up another Texas Steampunk series and Rumble Girls returns.

Meru Puri (amazon)
I think I’m rapidly reaching a saturation point with all the shojo manga that I’ve been reading. After rediscovering manga and anime around 3 years ago, I’ve been a fairly uncritical consumer. I was just happy to have some fun manga to read. For the most part, that’s still true but some [...]