Kniveswood Studios today releases MangaBlade 1.0, a full-featured manga and comic book viewer for Apple iPad. MangaBlade combines three important elements for manga consumption: a user interface designed specifically for iPad, seamless integration with online manga catalogs, and the ability to import your own manga. MangaBlade features a bookshelf interface for browsing through the hundreds of beautiful manga cover art. It uses familiar controls for zooming, panning, and flipping through manga.