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JManga Site Launches with Works Never Printed in U.S.

posted on 2011-08-17 13:00 EDT
1st Macross F works in U.S., Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru, Crime and Punishment

JManga, a platform for reading legal manga online, launched in the United States on Wednesday with titles that have not been published in this country before. Among the new titles are the first listing of Macross Frontier material in the United States, the manga Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru, and Crime and Punishment (Naoyuki Ochiai's re-imagining of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel classic that is inspiring an upcoming live-action film).

Update: Only the following titles are currently available for purchasing at launch:

Thanks, Sam Pinansky.

JManga aims to update its catalog every Tuesday to increase it "to a few thousand titles within the next year and onto 10,000 by 2013." The following titles are listed, but not all are currently available for purchase.

  • Ebiten Kouritsu Ebisugawa Koukou Temmombu by SCADI|Kira Inugami
  • Ekiben Hitoritabi by Kan Sakurai|Jun Hayase
  • Excel Saga by Rikdo Koshi

  • Macross Frontier (1-5) by Hayato Aoki
  • Macross Frontier: Hold Me Tight to the End of the Galaxy by Sorahiko Mizushima
  • Madame Joker (1) by Tomoko Naka
  • Manga Science (1) by Yoshitoh Asari
  • Maoh: Juvenile Remix (1-5) by Kōtarō Isaka, Megumi Osuga
  • Marina Mystery File (1) by Byakkomaru
  • Meru Puri (1-4) by Matsuri Hino
  • Mikosuri Han-Gekijyou (1) by Tenho Iwatani
  • MIRAI NIKKI (1-4) by Sakae Esuno
  • Mister Mistress (1-2) by Rize Shinba
  • Mori no Asagao (1) by Mamora Gouda
  • Muyonosuke (1) by Takao Saito
  • My Sadistic Boyfriend (1) by Momoshiro | Yuna Anisaki

  • Yagyu (1) by Shinzo Tomi
  • Yami no Koe (1) by Junji Ito
  • Yoru wa mijikashi Arukeyo Otome (1-5) by Ranmaru Kotone|Tomihiko Morimi
  • Young-kun (1) by Muto Masaya

This article has a follow-up: JManga Lists More New Titles (2011-08-24 00:30)

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