Mainichi has a short article on Keiji Nakazawa, the creator of Barefoot Gen. And Yomiuri reports that the Japanese government is considering using manga to promote nuclear disarmament.
Katherine Dacey-Tsuei, who makes Tokyospace comprehensible under the nom de blog ChunHyang72, reviews the upcoming Tokyopop 2.0 interface.
Mangamaniac Julie is at Anime Central and she reports back on the Dark Horse panel and posts an interview about visual novels.
The South African Financial Mail is the latest newspaper to attribute the popularity of wine in South Korea to the Japanese manga Kami no Shizuku (Drops of God).
Get a jump on Wednesday: At Comics212, Christopher Butcher lists all the comics (manga and others) shipping to his store, The Beguiling, this week. His comment on Naruto:
I’m really going to have to catch up on this one day… For now though, I’ll just let it pay my salary.
The Japan Cartoonists Association announced its annual awards on Friday; ANN has the results.
Reviews: At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson reviews vol. 1 of Backstage Prince. Journalista’s Dirk Deppey says vol. 1 of Parasyte is one of those love-it-or-hate-it books; check out his review and the scans and proceed accordingly. Active Anime’s Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 29 of InuYasha. At the MangaCast, Ed posts audio reviews of two CMX titles, vol. 1 of Apothecarius Argentum and vol. 4 of Oyayubihime Infinity and Pea relaxes after exams with a slew of Japanse shoujo titles. David Welsh reviews vol. 1 of Millennium Snow, plus two non-manga titles that could be interesting. At Read About Comics, Greg McElhatton posts a thorough review of vol. 9 of Phoenix. Tangognat goes on a binge, reading vols. 1-4 of Tail of the Moon in a single gulp. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie reads vols. 3 and 4 of Enchanter, vol. 13 of Tenjho Tenge, vol. 16 of Fruits Basket, vol. 17 of Cheeky Angel, and vol. 5 of Swan. PopCultureShock’s Katherine Dacey-Tsuei admits to some guilty pleasures, including vol. 1 of Black Sun, Silver Moon. Robots Never Sleep reviews Abara, a sci-fi manga by Blame! manga-ka Tsutomu Nihei. At the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wilma Jandoc and Jason Yadao check out a handful of Fanfare/Ponent Mon titles: Blue, Doing Time, and Monokuro Kinderbook. And reviewers from The Star of Malaysia turn their sights on vol. 2 of Nosatsu Junkie, vol. 2 of Hayate the Combat Butler, vol. 1 of Gyakushu, vol. 1 of Millennium Snow, and One Missed Call 1+2.
[...] books get the attention they deserve, so this piece in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (found via MangaBlog) was much appreciated. I like this introductory analogy, too: “But it’s a bit like wine in [...]
Connie makes Fruits Basket sound so awesome after volume 4.. I really don’t know if I should invest more money in Fullmetal Alchemist now.
[...] The Mainichi Shumbun’s Hideyuki Kakinuma presents a short profile of Barefoot Gen creator Keiji Nakazawa. You might also be interested in this excerpt from Alan Gleason’s interview with Nakazawa for The Comics Journal #256. (Above: sequence from the first volume of Barefoot Gen’s first English release, by New Society Publishers; ©1987 Keiji Nakazawa, translation by Project Gen. Link via Brigid Alverson.) [...]