Anime on DVD reports that VIZ has pulled Hikaru no Go volume 12 (it’s not clear to me if it’s the manga or the anime, but since the manga shows up on a search on TRSI and the anime doesn’t, I assume it’s the anime) from Right Stuf’s site in the same way that they pulled Mar a while back. And on the same day that VIZ stuff went on sale, too. Wacky. Mar was discontinued; will Hikaru no Go go too?

Anyone who knows me well knows that I think Death Note is a bit overrated– all except the art, by Hikaru no Go artist Takeshi Obata. Obata is now also doing a manga based on the video game Blue Dragon, but now he has a new project: Hello Baby, with Masanori Morita as the writer. Morita is best known for the unlicensed 42-volume manga Rokudenashi Blues, which he did both writing and art for.

The new project will be serialized in Jump Square, the new anthology that’s replacing Monthly Shounen Jump. I don’t know anything about the plot yet, and I also don’t care, because Obata’s art is that awesome.