The War on Christma…err Manga!

ComiPress reports that Thailand is cracking down on adult manga!  Okay, not really… somebody was just selling porn where they shouldn’t have been.  And I’m not sure if it was just poor wording on the writer’s part, but “second hand manga, translated into Thai” reads fishy to me for some reason.

Edit: Via The Comics Reporter, a more detailed report from the Bangkok Post which illuminates the incident under a much different light.

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Also via Comipress, and a little more serious this time… a city in China has begun confiscating copies of the manga Death Note, which became a concern after local parents discovered the book had caused their children to develop an imagination.  Which is, as you know, against the chairman’s teachings.

Let’s just hope the local school children don’t discover Takeshi Obata’s newest offering, or they might start having a libido.

(Actually, the real question is this…now that the Blue Dragon manga is out, will Asia actually care about the XBox 360 now?)

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Aside from pointing out a new release from studio LittleWitch (whom I’m such a fan of that I actually have a few their games… all of which sit unopened on my shelf because I can’t play games in Japanese), Heisei Democracy also takes a tongue in cheek look at desktop publishing for the doujinshika in a crunch, or as they call it, copy-shi and printer-shi.

(Although I’m surprised by the ommission of the third alternative… the “steal the free printing code for the copier at your school, work, or library”-shi.  You all know what I’m talking about, right?)