Lots of great stuff this Friday!
New York Magazine runs an entire short story, 99 Roses, from Jo Chen’s The Other Side of the Mirror. It starts out with some lovely, if generic, art and then switches tones in the middle for a suprise ending. Quick and satisfying!
Shaenon Garrity presents a special guest edition of the Overlooked Manga Festival, in which Abby L. (The Green Avenger) shows and tells what’s good about Firefighter Daigo of Fire Company M.
Tokyopop is putting a volume of Loveless up every day to celebrate Valentine’s Day, with a special bonus on the 14th! Unfortunately, the very first chapter doesn’t seem to be up, which makes it a bit tough for new readers. Also, the Tpop website is a touch hard to navigate, so here’s what you do: Click on the chapter you want under “online manga,” then click on “portfolio” for links to the individual chapters. Loveless is a little strange; check out this older review at Sleep Is For the Weak for a taste of what it’s about. Or check out the update on vols. 4-7, with links to older reviews, at Prospero’s Manga.
Speaking of Prospero’s Manga, congrats to blogger Ferdinand (Billy Aguiar IRL), who has signed on to do a pilot manga with Tokyopop. What’s a “pilot manga”? We’ll have to wait and see…
Sakura Kiss looks forward to the new yaoi titles for February at The Yaoi Review.
Yamila Abraham updates us with the news that RightStuf will be distributing Yaoi Press titles, and the newest of those titles is Happy Yaoi Yum Yum, which she describes thusly:
Though Yaoi Press will start to publish other ‘Adult Only’ titles, Happy Yaoi Yum Yum will follow in the tradition of Yaoi Hentai as being the most smutty and pointless. It’s main difference from the Yaoi Hentai series is that *all* stories will be comedic. Our market research (me watching people read books at conventions) showed that women are less embarrassed to buy porn when it’s funny.
Shueisha plans to release a perfect edition of Shaman King with the never-before-seen “true ending.”
Reviews: Bad Jew posts a nice review of Love Roma at Sleep Is For The Weak. Erin Finnegan, Katherine Dacey, and Ken Haley have a literary moment at Manga Recon, where they review four novels for The Otaku Bookshelf. I’m a few days late with this, but here are the Monday Manga Reviews at About Heroes. And Comics and More devoted Manga Monday to vol. 1 of Sand Chronicles. Tiamat’s Disciple enjoys vol. 1 of The World of Quest. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie checks out vols. 8 and 9 of Ouran High School Host Club, vol. 7 of Crossroad, Baku, vol. 4 of Warriors of Tao, vol. 4 of Queens, and vol. 1 of Shinsoku Kiss. Lissa Pattillo reviews Virtuoso di Amore, Ohikkoshi, and vol. 2 of Kat and Mouse at Kuriousity. Kethylia, who is a tough grader, gives high marks to Laugh Under the Sun. Tangognat enjoys an “old fashioned tear jerker,” the one-shot Be With You. At Prospero’s Manga, Ferdinand reviews vol. 1 of I Wish… Erica Friedman finishes her critique of the massive tome vol. 11 of Yuri Hime at Okazu. Julie likes vol. 1 of A.I. Revolution at the Manga Maniac Cafe.
Wow! Two links for us today! Sweet.
Hate to nitpick, but Bad Jew was the one who wrote our Love Roma review; NotHayama just wrote the additional review at the bottom, which in this case was just a joke. Maybe I should redesign the review page so the author is clearer.
Oops! Sorry! I fixed it. I thought it was Bad Jew, but then I checked it by looking at the very bottom.
An update about Maximum Ride from Yen Press. They will be releasing the first “volume” on May 3rd FOR FREE on Free Comic Book Day.
http://www.freecomicbookday.com
Check under “Comics”, then “Silver Sponsors”, then scroll to the very bottom.
“What’s a “pilot manga”? We’ll have to wait and see…”
Think TV pilot season, but with online manga~
Yaoi Press creators Dany&Dany are part of that Tokyopop pilot program as well.