Karino Takatsu’s Working!! manga has been green-lit!

Summary from ANN:

The story is set in a family restaurant named Wagnaria in the northern [...]

The K-ON! Official Band Yarō yo!! album (Official K-ON! Let’s-Create-a-Band!! album) which is a collection of the theme songs and background music, will be bundled together with a 164-page band score book and an exclusive four-panel manga strips by the original creator kakifly.

The album will contain 109 tracks, most of which are background music. Be sure to grab your copy over at CDJapan now! Retail price is at 4,500 yen for the album. Grab it!
The album will also include the full five-person versions of the “Cagayake! GIRLS”, “Don’t say ‘lazy”, …

So yes. Shounen Jump just launched a website that allows people to read the 1st 3 chapters of 22 listed manga titles from Shounen Jump. This ‘offer’ lasts till 31st August.

The official website for Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in Japan has posted the first chapters of 22 different manga series online in Japanese for a limited time on Monday.

Cospa has just announced a 1/6 scale of Galett Fey Sowauge from the manga series Shina Dark. Awesome pose!

Retail price is at 9,300 yen. Expect her to be out this coming November 2009! Preorder yours at HobbyLink Japan or Hobby Search today!

There’s also another alternate version – I think it’s a Limited Version. No idea whether your respective online stores will put them up for preorders..

I definitely prefer this XD.

Sony has announced that later in this year, 2009, the Japanese PSN Store will offer manga for PSP users. They will be able to read manga on their PSP. X)
What is PSN Store?
The PlayStation Store is an online virtual market available to users of Sony’s PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable game consoles via the PlayStation Network. The Store offers a range of downloadable content both for purchase and available free of charge. Available content includes full games, add-on content, playable demos, themes and game and movie trailers. [Wikipedia]

No details on …

A new Mahou Sensei Negima! OAD has been announced. 魔法先生ネギま！～にひとつの世界～　or Mahou Sensei Negima! ~ Mō Hitotsu no Sekai~’s 1st volume will be released September 17th 2009.

The unofficial Neko to Negima! to Seiyū-san site reports that Kodansha producer Yoichi Ishimoto announced a second series of Negima! Magister Negi Magi original anime DVDs (OADs) in a Negima! event in Tokyo on Wednesday.Starting this summer, the second series will reportedly ship on four DVDs that will be bundled with limited editions of four manga volumes from Ken Akamatsu
Being a fan of the Mahou …

At Zen’s Reminder I forgot to announce this the other day. The popular shounen manga Fairy Tail  has been green-lit as an anime for this Fall.
The manga’s story follows a teenaged girl named Lucy Heartfilia who aims to join the world’s most notorious mage guild, Fairy Tail. During a daring rescue, Lucy encounters Natsu “Salamander” Dragneel, a quirky Fairy Tail member and a teenaged practitioner of the ancient Dragon Slayer magic. Lucy is eventually welcomed into the Fairy Tail guild as she, Natsu, and other members go on various quests …

Yazawa Ai, Author of the manga NANA has been anounced ill enough that the publication of her series has been halted till further notice. If I remember correctly this isn’t the first time this is happened; my best wishes go out in hopes that she gets better as soon as possible.  (source-MAL)
Nana is a Josei manga/anime about two young women that both share the name Nana and how by an odd turn of fate their destinies interlapped. A Drama series dealing with Romance, Rock music, sex and drugs, its not …

According to the newest issue of Weekly Shounen Magazine, a new series of the manga Great Teacher Onizuka is underway under the the name GTO: Shonan 14 Days. This is very surprising news since it has been quite some time since the last series. I never did read the manga, but this may motivate me to.
Source: ANN
For those of you who don’t know anything about this series, it is about a Ex-Punk who decides to become the greatest teacher that ever lived. He ends up being put with the “problem” …