Hi everybody! It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update on the status of stuff, so here’s that news post! Hopefully the holiday season has gone well for you and the upcoming new year will be the same.

So let’s jump right into the projects we got coming in early 2011! These are in random order, when something gets done, it gets released so don’t read too much into it.

– New Jumbor chapters! We’ve fallen a bit behind the Japanese release, but that’s fine. Chapter 5 is full of awesome from the looks of it. Chapter 4 and 6 are a bit more “meh.” Either way, we will be continuing this early next year! And if you haven’t purchased the first volume of the new Jumbor manga in Japanese, go do it! It’ll look good on your shelf. Plus, we will be sticking with only Ultra Jump versions, so any changes in the published volume won’t be moved over!

– More Shaman King TCG comics! We’ve got a couple of those still stockpiled so, those should be a bunch of fun too. It’s more filler releases between our bigger projects, so if you check back often at our site, you might catch them!

– More Shaman King Kang Zeng Bang Extras. Yes, we haven’t released any lately, and yes, we will continue to do them. When? Early 2011. Once we start back up again, we want to have a more consistent release schedule. So once they are done, they’ll be done.

– New Project: Hiroyuki Takei’s Pafu Magazine interview! Dit has been long at work with this huge translation project. If you have read some of Takei’s Last Word interviews from the Kang Zeng Bang Extra releases, you’ll know how fun and informative these interviews can be. Plus this thing is huge. And it’s recent(-ish). It’s covering Ultimo, Jumbor, and Shaman King. Plus, it contains some never before seen images into Takei’s office (in full color!). BadS was also working on some different methods of releasing this (such as a PDF). So look forward to this release once it’s complete, since it’s going to be awesome!

– New Project: Mentalite! We’ve done the chapters, now it’s time to cover the other things in this book too! Is this a new project? I’m not really sure. But now that we have some great raws, sure why not. It’s new! This one is a bit farther off in terms of release (since we haven’t started yet). But we want to let you know that it’s something we are planning on working on down the road.

– New Project: ????????! It’s so new, we might not even do it! Also, I haven’t bought it yet. It is Takei related. Kinda like how Smash Bomber is Takei related. Something a bit different you wouldn’t expect, but who knows, maybe it’s enjoyable! Or maybe it stinks! Nobody knows. Once I actually look at the manga, then we will decide! So don’t hold your breath. (And yes, this one falls under more of the spare time category than everything above it, so don’t complain, cool?)

So that covers about everything we will be doing in Early 2011. No solid dates on anything. Just know that we are working on a bunch of stuff, alot of it is really good, and we want to put that extra bit of polish to make sure you enjoy it to the fullest. So that’s the end of year wrap up from us at Mankin-Trad. See you next year with a whole bunch of new, old, and continuing projects!