The reviews for Blade of the Immortal are part of a bigger plan to bring more manga reviews on Animerated. So, if you have a manga that you want to review and you don’t have a blog for it, just send me an email. As some know, I’m desperate for some collaborators, as I want to extend and make this site better.
Let me say I always find it kind of difficult to review the first volume of a manga series. Usually I get familiar with a manga on the second …

This article is based on various interviews,columns and materials from darkhorse.com and around the internet. It was a small pain to gather the information but it was worth it and I hope the next article will be even better.

Considered the oldest independent manga publisher from USA, Dark Horse was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson and the manga division started to function in 1988. The first manga they ever published was Godzilla by Kazuhisa Iwata. When Godzilla appeared…

First, I want to say that I read both comics and manga. More comics and less manga, actually. Why? Because you can find more quality comics than quality manga. While currently I am reading just two manga series (Berserk and Naruto) because is hard for me to find a manga that I can enjoy, although I will soon start to read Blade of the Immortal and Old Boy. I want to say that I do not read scans but only printed stuff that I buy on the internet (supporting the …

█ Michael Gombos, Director of Asian Licensing at Dark Horse, announced that Dark Horse will have two new additions for the Blade of the Immortal manga books lineup. On Christmas 2009, the normal regular tankobon will be accompanied by a new original novel, written by Junichi Ohsako. The novel will contain 6 new original illustration drawn by Hiroaki Samura and it will be named Blade of the Immortal: Legend…