Manga News: Honey Room, The War on Horror, DC’s Multiple-Platform Venture

* the Honey Room case, where the president of manga comopany Shobunkan was sentenced to jail before having his sentence reduced to a modest fine, has concluded in Japan with the final appeal of that penalty denied late last week. It is one of the first manga stories I can remember being covered in North America primarily through on-line venues.

* Simon Jones asks why more people aren't talking about DC's investment into Flex, a Japanese publishing venture that offers its content through multiple platforms, including web and mobile phone technology. The investment is described as "heavy," and DC's John Nee will sit on Flex's board.

The jerk in me says that there are few comments because people are shocked into silence by DC acting like a giant entertainment company and making a decisive investment in an emerging platform. The weary comics veteran in me standing outside the convention center smoking cigarettes says that there's probably little to discuss right now. I'd probably go with the smoker. The nature of DC's interest is apparent, the on-line to print model has been well established, and the promise of comics on cell phones is at a point where it will either work here or not.

* Jones also talks about the nature of titles recently targeted by Kyoto police as harmful.

* I'm too amused by potential "War on Horror" jokes to figure out if this article is a repeat of previously released information or not. I believe so, although the involvement of Death Note, the general trend towards authority's interest in certain titles and the interesting twist that these are counterfeit copies has given the story some legs.
 
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