Anime publisher ADV ended the magazine Newtype USA and replaced it with a general media magazine PiQ. Of course subscribers weren’t happy getting something unrelated to what they paid for. It also didn’t help that a reputation of insulting and poking fun of its reads was growing. Without much shock PiQ has ended after four issues. This could also be another sign that ADV as a whole is having problems and perhaps near an end themselves?

The mainsite for PiQ does hint at more news coming soon. Newtype USA was making profits when it was published, why ruin it? But it’s true that it was expensive and in theory it didn’t help grow interest in anime and manga with non-fans.

Muddy is the perfect manga if you were to mention examples when you argue that female mangaka shouldn’t make shounen. It ended so soon and didn’t connect well with the Shounen Jump readers. Not really a reason not to read it, it’s a fun read. Clay was a promising smart person who grew up as a failure…more like as an ehh. What is he suppose to be good at? Making chimeras, artificial life. After a certain point, he’s fired too soon as he makes a human chimera from mud. The name of the new lifeform in the shape of a small child is Muddy. Because of Muddy’s innocense and wild nature, Clay decides to raise him. There’s plenty of action and you get to see the many sizes and forms of Muddy with his female form likely being the most popular.

Why should you read this manga is simple. It’s has a simple theme, only has twelve chapters, and little Muddy is very loveable. Volume one in Japane with all the chapters is out incase you wanted to add it to your collection.

Hand’s is a shounen manga with a sports theme, but it really isn’t a sports manga. There’s two chapters scanlated by promfret, however, they have dropped it. Hand’s is a single volume series, though, so it’s very worth buying if you can read the rest. You have a young kid named Tachibana Daigo who is pro at handball, but has a loser dad who offers him to the handball coach. The coach also has a daughter Nishioka Mizuki who helps create the wonderful moments in this manga.

Hand’s is really action and drama with a tomboy and a short but very daring kid who wants to be a hero. At times Daigo seems almost unhuman and he’s sometimes is shown as so in subtle ways. Also like to state that this is one of the few manga that pulls off baggy clothing well.

Cloth Road volume six has just been released today. The author is the really highly thought of Hideyuki Kurata, the creator of Red or Die and Red x Hand. Cloth Road’s style will be the the part that will keep you reading, even though the plot is has a unique idea and premise, too. Battles with fashion and styled clothing with a pair that discover they have a sibling. Jennifer and Fergus are brother and sister, they have to fight in such tournaments in order to keep from becoming too poor. Who can someone battle with clothes? The story takes place in the future where computers have made it into clothes with very tiny nanobots inside. Then you’re likely thinking about why they’re fighting? All about the brand names.

The Cloth Road manga originally appeared in Ultra Jump, from the company that brings you Shounen Jump.

The forums is having its second birthday today. There’s an exclusive signature made for it with the Hand x Red manga. You can discuss it by dropping a comment or in this thread.

Tegami Bachi volume 4 has been release in Japan this month. This manga just might be animated if it keeps going.

One of the only Tegami Bachi related videos on Youtube was removed, even though it was just some manga scans and music.