New Shoujo Manga Mag in Development
Following the demise of Viz Media’s Shoujo Beat Magazine, a small group of enterprising fans led by Publisher/Editorial Director Garrett Boast have launched plans for ShojoBerry Magazine, a new English language outlet for translated Japanese shoujo manga. Boast states, “We are planning on doing a promotional issue in April 2010 for Tekkoshocon.”
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October 9th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Talk about being brave. I have more confidence in another seinen mag in America like Raijin than another Shojo mag.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I do wish these folks the best of luck. The demise of Shoujo Jump suggests that this is a risky venture, but there isn’t presently a periodical anthology of shoujo manga in America, and shoujo manga does have an audience in America.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
[...] says here that there’s a new shoujo manga magazine in development, but not much is provided in the way [...]
October 11th, 2009 at 5:52 am
[...] Beat really got to some fans, so much so that they’ve banded together to create it’s replacement. Called Shojo Berry, this is a proposed print magazine that will seemingly include translated [...]