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Updating Let's Manga website -DONE

A few major updates of the Let's Manga website will be carried out over the next few weeks, the first of them right now. Menus may look odd for a few hours, but everything should be back to normal by the end of the day. We're sorry for any inconvenience. EDIT: first update done. Revamped right-hand menu and edited about page. More updates to come soon -thank you for bearing with us while we tinker around, and please look forward to a better-looking, more useful Let's Manga site.

'Manga murder' fanfic

Videos and pieces of fanart and forum discussions about the so-called 'manga murder' are all very interesting, in an academic sort of way. But this piece of manga murder fan fiction takes the cake. It even has random Dutch words strewn in. I love it :)

Now saving books in Diigo as well

In the two years we've been working on a bibliography of manga studies, we've always saved books in LibraryThing and articles and other online material using social bookmarking services (first Furl, now Diigo). We never found a single service that could handle both books and articles/random online stuff the way we wanted it to.

Four cool things to do with the manga research bibliography

We've been shifting the LM online archive of academic articles and interesting non-academic manga tidbits from Furl to Diigo for the past several months, and it just occurred to me that this was never properly acknowledged on the blog. Diigo is a fairly new service which has been evolving along with our reasons for first trying it out, meaning that the whole story has gotten rather too convulted to recount in its entirety by now.

Manga murder discussion goes on, also on Youtube

And here I was thinking I was keeping up reasonably well with what people were saying about the 'manga murder' case online. (For those who haven't been following this blog or aren't much into manga/anime, the 'manga murder' refers to the still-unsolved discovery of body parts in a Belgium park that were accompanied by notes referencing the manga 'Death Note'.

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