I honestly can not say that when I joined in the efforts to create a new website that focused on manga on this day seven years ago that I'd envisioned sitting here seven years later typing up a post to celebrate having reached this kind of milestone.
Jouhou was conceived for the purpose of striving to provide a wealth of useful manga related information for online manga readers far and wide. The means by which we do this, the aim and focus of what we present, even the people that contribute to our successes, have changed over time, as all things that grow must. So, when trying to decide how to best celebrate having survived seven long years of providing manga news, reviews, scanlation and series info, I can think of no better way than to present to you new features to make the site even more useful to you in the years to come.
But what, then, to offer? What thing is so epic, so grand, as to serve to highlight a celebration of seven years? After all, seven may not have the import that ten or twenty-five carries but seven is a number that has always carried special meaning, throughout history. There are seven days to the week, seven hills of Rome, seven sages of Greece, and seven wonders of the ancient world, to name but a few. The answer is that no one addition to the site would qualify. The answer? Seven, of course! Seven new additions or upgrades, one on each of seven days to celebrate the seventh anniversary.
To start things off right we have a major change to how we are handling reviews. When we started doing reviewing, we focused entirely on reviewing a whole series in one go. Now we do our best to review each individual volume in a series. Our choices up until this point, however, have been limited. We could put them altogether in a place intended for only one review, as clicking any of the reviews here on the front page will show, but it gets messy. We could also post them on our forums, as we have in the past, but doing that deprives us of a way to tie the review in with everything else.
The solution? A new page (and related features) specifically for displaying everything you need to know for a review. Clink here to see the review of volume one of Black God, presented in our new review format. Going forward, all new reviews will also be adopting this new format and presentation and all old reviews will be converted over.
Stay tuned one and all, we are just getting started and the best is yet to come. See you tomorrow night, same time, same channel!
Jason Punda
Managing Director
