Katherine Dacey digs deep for this week’s new manga, and she reviews a couple of new titles as well, in her Weekly Recon.
David Welsh has nominated some manga for the YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens list.
Canned Dogs has some lovely art from the 4-koma manga Hitsugi katsugi no Kuro, which Yen Press will be releasing later this year as Shoulder-A Coffin-Kuro.
John Jakala can’t wait for September, when Viz will start reissuing Slam Dunk.
Same Hat! Same Hat! posts the cover art for Kazuo Umezu’s Cat Eyed Boy.
Manga-ka Moyoco Anno, creator of Happy Mania, Sugar Sugar Rune, and Hataraki Man, is taking a break from work due to health problems.
This is sort of interesting: Japan’s latest child-porn legislation specifically exempts anime and manga. Click the link to read the reasoning.
News from Japan: Libre, known for its boys love titles, plans to launch a new “all-genre” manga magazine titled Kurofune ZERO on May 28.
Reviews: Lori Henderson just can’t stop: She read 11 volumes of Naruto (vols. 17-26) in 7 days. Dave Ferraro enjoys vol. 7 of Emma at Comics-and-More. At Anime on DVD, Greg Hackmann finds vol. 1 of Kamen Tantei “unsatisfying” and Ron Quezon posts a brief review of vol. 3 of Cipher. Nick finds vol. 1 of Yozakura Quartet promising, if not top-notch, at Hobotaku. Down at the Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie reads vol. 4 of Yurara and vol. 1 of Seduction More Beautiful Than Love. Erica Friedman reviews Yozora no Ouji to Asayake no Hime at Okazu. Connie checks out vol. 7 of Berserk at Slightly Biased Manga. At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 2 of Ai no Kusabi and vol. 1 of The Third. At Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review, the eponymous Graeme Flory reviews Y Square, vol. 2 of Black God, and vol. 2 of Zombie-Loan.