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At Newsarama, Chris Arrant interviews Fred Schodt, author of The Astro Boy Essays. (H/T: Charles Tan.)

ComiPress continues their Manga Zombie excerpts with a chapter on obscure gekiga manga artist Suzuki Ryosei. (Images are NSFW).

Also not entirely safe for work, but a good read nonetheless: Christopher Butcher has a beginner’s guide to yaoi for gay men. (Via Blog@Newsarama.)

John Jakala revisits Tintin Pantoja’s re-imagination of Wonder Woman.

Carlo Santos has another Right Turn Only!! column up at ANN, with some brief reviews and a fairly hard slam at Vampire Knight.

It was a noble experiment, but Digma, the first free manga magazine in Japan, has folded after less than a year.

After a student in Kyoto Seika University’s Department of Manga was stabbed to death, the faculty and students made a manga about him, partly to memorialize the student, partly to help solve the crime.

Reviews: At Blogcritics, Katie McNeill reviews Asian Beat. Jordan Marks reviews Camera Camera Camera at Yaoi Suki. Connie has posted a ton of reviews at Slightly Biased Manga since I last checked in: Japan As Viewed by 17 Creators, vol. 2 of Skip Beat, Truly Kindly, vols. 1 and 2 of Princess Princess, vol. 3 of Hoshin Engi, vol. 4 of After School Nightmare, vol. 4 of Click, and vol. 16 of Eyeshield 21. At the Sunny Side Up Anime Blog, huamulan03 reviews That Guy Was Splendid. At Anime on DVD, the staff contributes their Small Bodied Manga Reviews and Ed Chavez critiques the Welcome to the NHK novel. Jog reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Octopus Girl. Mely reviews Nabi: The Prototype at Coffeeandink.

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Comments

  1. Ya know, I don’t think anyone reads Vampire Knight due to its nuanced story and complex characters. It’s always been a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, and I think that’s what so many people enjoy about it— it’s an unabashedly trashy high school soap opera. With vampires.