Mobile Manga Headed for Taiwan
Japanes manga contents suitable for delivery to mobile phones will become available soon, thanks to BitWay, in Taiwan.
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Mobile Manga from Japan to India
Tata DoCoMo will offer Japanese mobile manga in India as of Sept. 18th with 6 titles translated into English and more planned to follow.
Japan Mobile Manga at SmarTone
BitWay launches Japanese mobile Manga portal with SmarTone in Hong Kong as of today, titles incld Naturo by Shueisha [J] http://bit.ly/O59pF
Manga Mode Launches in Europe
DoCoMo just announced that they will provide popular Japanese manga content for Europe with offerings via Bouygues Telecom becoming available as of today. The initial library of translated titles, including; NARUTO, DRAGON BALL and DEATH NOTE all published by SHUEISHA Inc., will be accessible under the the MANGA MODE section of the carriers mobile portal along with a dedicated reader.
MangaNovel Launches Multilingual Offering
Toshiba has announced that they will bring the universe of Japanese manga to the global market with the launch of MangaNovel, an on-line service that allows readers not only to download and read manga in Japanese but to post and offer for sale translations of content in other languages. Apparently the product will be used at MIT to help students study Japanese pop culture and comics.
Mobile Manga on BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek posted a good op-ed, by Kenji Hall, about the Manga for Mobile market niche in Japan. WWJ has been covering this evolution ever since Mobidec back in 2004 [video here] and it’s nice to see the concept is finally starting to get some air-time overseas. Manga is a natural content to port for wireless devices here and obviously this simple concept to render text and images, for whatever print media is popular in any given region, makes sense. Note; we also had a fantastic presentation from Digital Garage at Mobile Monday Tokyo in Feb. 2006.