Today is Pi Day (3.14), and 1:59 will be Pi Moment. My mathematician sister has helpfully provided a link to a pi sudoku for those who want to observe the day in true geek style.
On to the manga news. Your must-read post for the day is Kate Dacey and Erin F.’s guide to Fumi Yoshinaga, with brief reviews of many of her manga, plus a bonus cartoon story by Erin. This inspires David Welsh to rank Yoshinaga’s manga according to how much he likes it. Your results may vary.
Simon (NSFW) Jones takes a look at Infinity’s digital manga (actually a PDF on a CD) and is not impressed.
John T reports on a talk by Dark Horse editor and uber-otaku Carl Horn in Portland, Oregon. Gia was there too.
Tokyopop plans to publish the novel Goth, by Otsu-ichi, and a one-volume manga adaptation by Kendi Ohishi, creator of the manga version of Welcome to the NHK.
Aspiring yuri manga creators: Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting work for vol. 6 of Yuri Monogatari.
News from Japan: ANN pulls a number of stories into a single post, including the news that Satoshi Urushihara will draw a one-shot manga for the March 27 Comic Valkyrie and Ami Shibata will do an encore one-shot of the recently concluded Papuwa for Monthly Shonen Gangan.
Reviews: Carlo Santos pans vol. 1 of Shin Megami Tensei: Kahn at ANN. James Fleenor shares his impressions of vols. 18-19 of Hunter x Hunter at Anime Sentinel. Michelle is hooked by vol. 3 of Love*Com at Soliloquy in Blue. Connie lets loose a volley of reviews at Slightly Biased Manga, giving her take on vols. 9, 10, and 11 of Berserk, Secret Comics Japan, vol. 32 of Dragon Ball, and vol. 3 of Let Dai. Snow Wildsmith checks out Everlasting Love at Manga Jouhou. Greg McElhatton can’t get enough of vol. 1 of Aqua at Read About Comics. Nick enjoys vol. 1 of Mushishi at Hobotaku. Julie gives thumbs up to vol. 1 of Your & My Secret at the Manga Maniac Cafe. At Blog@Newsarama, Chris Mautner reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Fairy Tail and Michael May explains why he didn’t finish vol. 1 of Hell Girl.
Ah, I have a Fumi Yoshinaga collection at home. The oversized DMP/June books look especially nice shelved together. I hope Ohoku makes its way to the US.
PDF manga on a CD is so… awkward.
Hey, I can get into this math thing. Henceforth, Friday the 13 will now be known as Friday the sqare root of 169.