A good week for manga starting with “N”: On the USA Today best-seller list, vol. 18 of Naruto rises from number 116 to 62, vol. 17 goes from 123 to 93, and vol. 16 goes from 131 to 102, while vol. 15 of Negima debuts at number 132.
The MangaCast crew give their picks from this week’s new comics list, and David Welsh talks about his choices as well.
And in case they missed something, ComiPress rounds up all the weekly manga release lists. Also: A new manga festival in Akibahara and an online manga teaching gaming etiquette.
Christopher Butcher is in Japan, and he’s got photos.
Publisher’s Weekly reports that DC is switching its bookstore distribution from Warner/Hachette to Random House.
Reviews: Lori Henderson reviews vol. 1 of La Corda d’Oro for Manga Life. Christopher Seaman reviews vol. 1 of Translucent and Sandra Scholes checks out vol. 2 of Not So Bad at Active Anime. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie checks out vol. 5 of Oh My Goddess. Julie looks at vol. 2 of Canon at the Manga Maniac Cafe. At PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon blog, new guy Ken Haley reviews vols. 1-6 of Golgo 13. Riseabove77 reviews vol. 1 of Peacemaker at Manganews. About Heroes checks out a slew of new titles, and Anime on DVD posts this week’s Small Bodied Manga Reviews.