Fans waiting for JManga to offer their content outside the confines of web browsers received some very welcome news at the digital manga portal's San Diego Comic panel. iOS (iPad/iPhone) and Android apps will be debuting in October 2012. 

A list of upcoming attractions were also called out

Sun-Ken Rock by Korean born artist Boichi - "a fiercely powerful, incredibly intense seinen manga" - the gangster/martial arts epic concerns a Japanese guy who follows his Korean love home and winds up a gang leader. Due July 26.

Dousei Ai - a boys love title by Setona Mizushiro (creator of Afterschool Nightmare - about cloned historical figures in high school - released in North America by Viz)

Mythical Detective Loki by Sakura Kinoshita (Tactics) -  about Norse god Loki as a boyish sleuth. Starts August 9th.

Garden, art manga by Yuichi Yokoyama. While this is the first digital edition, a print version is available from Picturebox.

Also look out for JManga's upcoming Manga Translation Battle. Open to pro (published) & amateur translators, you'll be able to translate one chapter from a selection of three manga from  Kodansha, Shueisha and Futabasha and possibly win trip to Japan.

via @debaoki

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.