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NTT, 3 Publishers to Expand E-Manga in North America
posted on by Egan Loo
The mobile manga provider Mag Garden are launching three manga magazines for mobile phones in Japan, and they intend to expand their electronic book initiatives overseas, including in North America.
While there have been many manga titles that debuted in paper magazines before appearing on Japanese mobile phones, these new weekly mobile magazines will have manga that will debut on mobile phones first. Shonen Gahosha's Comic Blade.
According to The Quiet Don — in English in the American App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch devices.
Mag Garden's Blade Alpha mobile magazine will feature publishes Kinoshita's Tactics, and ADV Manga once published Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok.
Shonen Gahosha's Young King Alpha will feature Shion Kōzu and Ryōsuke Kimura's Shōgai Gokudō-den Fukurō: Ikebukuro Violence Graffiti (pictured above left and formerly published in Young King). Takeshobo's Shin Kindan Grimm Dōwa will feature Akemi Matsuzaki's Ningyohime ~Ai e no Hatenu Omoi~ (pictured at right) and Yūki Fukai's Kuro no Cinderella ~Ai ni Ue Fukushū no Honō o Moyashite~.
Source: CNET Japan
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