I recently stumbled across a list that predicts (and predicted) the manga trends this 2008. It’s a very comprehensive list and most of them are indeed true for this year. Most because we still have 8 months to go before 2008 ends, so…

Without further ado, here are the trends:
1. Movies based on manga. Yep, we’ve been seeing these a lot with the list of manga being adapted into movies - and not only movies, but live-action series as well. Examples are Dragon Ball Z, Speed Racer, HanaKimi, Honey and Clover…the list goes on!

2. Return of the “dead” manga. Old and has-been manga titles are coming back this year as publishing companies re-publish them to return them to their glory days. Expect to see Slam Dunk, Crayon Shin-chan and Black Jack in your bookstores soon.

Read more on the 2008 Manga Trends.

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Title: Peach Girl
Story & Art: Ueda Miwa
Volumes: 18
Genre: Shoujo

I didn’t really give much attention to Peach Girl at first but my curiosity got the better of me. It’s such a cute story that I kind of regret not reading it earlier! Well despite that, Peach Girl is still one of those love stories that girls will generally tend to love while boys will be puking on their seats. ^_^;

Anyway, Peach Girl is about a girl named Momo (Momo is Japanese for Peach) who is so tan, she gets mistaken for one of those “easy girls”. She has this one friend, Sae, who keeps ruining her life especially when Momo gets together with her long-time crush, Toji…

Read more on Peach Girl.

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Title: Gyo
Story & Art: Ito Junji
Volumes: 2
Genre: Horror

Gyo’s plot is about a really bad smell - called a death stench - that seems to come from the ocean. The two main characters saw fishes with metallic legs walking around town and they figured out that the stench was coming from those fishes.

source: Poopsies

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Recca no Honou is about this high school kid who have always dreamt of being a ninja. Recca always gets into fights and openly declares that whoever beats him will be his master…

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This is the promotional video of the anime adaptation of Ryo Amamiya’s Shigofumi: ~Stories of Last Letter~ - enjoy!

official website - shigofumi.com

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An anime adaptation of the popular manga Vampire Knight is going to begin soon. The popular manga by Matsuri Hino is about vampires who renounced their murderous ways and the humans that protect them.

photo: minitokyo.net

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