Yenpress will release Black Butler, Soul Eater and Pandora Hearts in digital

All Square Enix titles will be available in their site, according to an announcement in NYCC yesterday.

The Square Enix Members website will still host the manga, but Yen Press will additionally distribute the titles digitally worldwide. The titles will be available digitally starting in winter 2012.

 Square Enix launched a digital manga store in North America and France in fall 2010 with titles such as Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Black Butler, O-Parts Hunter, The Record of a Fallen Vampire, Pandora Hearts, Sumomomo Momomo, and Spiral: Bonds of Reasoning.

Source: ANN

Hanasaku Iroha manga will end in September

The final chapter of the manga by Eito Chida will be published on September 22 in Gangan Joker magazine by Square Enix.

There's still a movie pending which will premiere this fall.

One of the most acclaimed series of 2011, the story centers around Ohana Matsumae, a 16-year-old Tokyo native who suddenly ends up working at a provincial hot spring inn after her mother flees town with a boyfriend to avoid debts.

Black God manga to end in 3 chapters

Also known as Kurokami, Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine announced that Dall-Young Lim and Sung-woo Park will end their Black God supernatural action manga in three more chapters.

The manga has been running in the magazine since 2004, and Square Enix will publish the 19th and final compiled book volume on August 25. The story revolves around a game programmer named Keita who gets caught in a battle being fought by Kuro. Kuro is a Tera Guardian — a Mototsumitama or a guardian who maintains the Coexistence Equilibrium.

Kuro saves Keita's life during the battle and regenerates Keita's arm that Keita loses in the fight. This exchange creates a bond that unites the two in the battles ahead. Yen Press will publish the 17th volume of the manga in North America in October. source: ANN

Zetsuen no Tempest Manga Gets anime adaptation

Not bad :) Something to look forward to.

The June issue of Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine is announcing on Saturday that a television anime adaptation of the Zetsuen no Tempest: The Civilization Blaster fantasy mystery manga has been green-lit. Kyou Shirodaira created the story with Arihide Sano, and Ren Saizaki draws the manga.

 The story centers around Yoshino, an ordinary high school student with a mysterious friend named Mahiro. Mahiro made a deal with a witch named Hakaze to hunt down the killers of his parents and sister. Now Mahiro is missing, and Hakaze confronts Yoshino. Yoshino find himself involved in a crisis that may doom the entire world.

 Source: ANN

Square Enix manga award revoked due to plagiarism

This is quite becoming the item of the day as Square Enix revoked the award to its 18th edition of the Square Enix Manga Prize awards after readers pointed that the winning story, 'Compliance -Zettai Hō Rei Toshi', by upcoming author Daiki Matsuura, plagiarized author Tow Ukubata light novel Mardock Scramble 104, licensed by Viz Media in the US.

Daiki Matsuura apologized by posting a notice, explaining that he was in a hurry to make his debut as a manga creator.

The apology notice from Monthly Shonen Gangan's editorial department said that after it received the information from readers about the possible plagiarism, it conducted an investigation and found "several points of similarity" between Matsuura's work and Ubukata's.

The editorial department wrote that in the future it would give new creators training and guidance, and the editorial department would do as much as it could to prevent something like this from happening again.

This just proves that desperation is never the right inspiration. O_O

Source: ANN