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Comment on The return of Hetalia by Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:20:00 +0000

Fixed it. Thanks!

Comment on The return of Hetalia by Manga Connection

Manga Connection — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:54:41 +0000

Your link for Alison Roberts at Rightstuf is actually the link for the Warren Peace “Rohan” review. :)

Comment on Saturday Night Special by Erica

Erica — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:14:10 +0000

Just as a point of clarification, GUNJO is most definitely *not* a romance. It’s closest to the genre of “True Crime.” It’s quite possibly an anti-romance.

Comment on New Kodansha, new Kenshin by Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:41:19 +0000

Hey! “Poor Poor Lips” (also by ALC, available on JManga.com) is also a yuri 4-koma comic (well, technically), and it’s funny.

Comment on Busy, busy, busy by Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:09:31 +0000

Awesome read

Comment on New Licenses include Thermae Romae, Oreimo by Ben Applegate

Ben Applegate — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:36:58 +0000

Of course. Thanks.

Comment on New Licenses include Thermae Romae, Oreimo by Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:19:02 +0000

If I don’t post here and nip this in the bud, I just know I’m going to be getting e-mails from people that say, “I heard from Mangabookshelf that you actually have someone on staff to insert new mistakes in DMG manga, while also trampling kittens.”

Okay, you made me choke out a laugh with this. I understand your position, Ben, and I know that my article has caused you some grief. Truce? :)

Comment on New Licenses include Thermae Romae, Oreimo by Ben Applegate

Ben Applegate — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:19:56 +0000

To be clear — I know you were being honest and I’m not accusing you of anything, I’m referring to other situations I’ve had to deal with. You wrote, “There was no managing editor for me to go to with questions,” which isn’t true, but you didn’t know that at the time because no one had told you. This post reads, “Digital has is no managing editor supervising her work, nor is there a proofreader checking it, which is troubling,” which is completely untrue, and involves leaping to new conclusions. If I don’t post here and nip this in the bud, I just know I’m going to be getting e-mails from people that say, “I heard from Mangabookshelf that you actually have someone on staff to insert new mistakes in DMG manga, while also trampling kittens.”

Comment on New Licenses include Thermae Romae, Oreimo by Ben Applegate

Ben Applegate — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:11:52 +0000

That’s fine, but you can see how easy it is to read your piece and jump to wildly inaccurate conclusions as this post does. There has been a lot of rumor-mongering and misinformation about DMG going around the Web in the last two weeks and I’m tired of it.

Comment on New Licenses include Thermae Romae, Oreimo by Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:06:17 +0000

Hi Ben,

I wasn’t going to respond to you over here, but there is one thing I want to make clear for readers of my Inside the DMG column. I am specifically not running things by DMG representatives or asking questions of DMG representatives as I write this series, because I want to be sure that I’m writing purely from the point of view of a participant–someone who is not privy to inside information of any kind. The original purpose of the series was to experience everything first hand, so that I could let prospective participants (many of whom were extremely skeptical at the time) know what they could expect after joining the DMG based on practical experience rather than having to rely solely on DMG press releases. My “limited information” is what I’ve gleaned from my personal experience as an editor with the DMG, no more, no less.