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UPDATE October 13: Belgian comic artist Yann is preparing an album based on the "manga murder". Yann says he's a fan of Death Note, and the scenario he's working on involves a heroine posting in an online amateur detectives forum about the manga murder, not realizing that the actual murderers are reading along. Sounds like our comment section is about to become a comic. There's no news yet about when or if the album will be published.

We're very proud to announce that Let's Manga staff will be guest editing an issue of the online e-journal Image [&] Narrative dedicated to the visual language of manga. The call for papers is now out, and we look forward to receiving comments, questions and of course many interesting proposals. A Japanese translation of the call for papers is in the works and coming soon.

Japanese in Anime & Manga (アニメ・マンガの日本語) is a newly launched site created by the Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai, that aims to provide Japanese language instruction through use of manga. It's still under construction, but what's already there looks quite promising indeed, and it's doubly interesting because this seems to be an 'official' effort at promoting Japanese learning through manga.