Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow, and ANN takes a look at the manga-related titles on offer, while Dorian runs through all the titles at Postmodern Barney.
The MangaCast team critiques this week’s new manga. Also: manga mavens Ed Chavez, Jason Thompson, and Rob Tokar cross over to endorse the Japanese magazine Morning Two, and Ed spots some new titles from Deux and Aurora.
Christopher Butcher preps for Anime North by asking his readers: What is the hot manga that everyone will be wanting but is currently not on my radar?
Almost everybody just loves Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, so it’s interesting to read Oyceter’s more nuanced view, as well as the ensuing discussion in comments. (Via When Fangirls Attack, as are a number of the other links in this post.)
Design student SZE discusses manga genres, with examples.
du9 takes a look at the French comics market in 2007.
David Welsh looks at the Viz website and thinks about what is not there as well as what is.
At I Am A Tree, Michelle wonders where the feminist anime and manga bloggers are.
Attention artists: Animation Kobe is accepting submissions for logos and mascots.
Takeshi Obata, artist of Death Note and Hikaru no Go, will appear at the Japan Expo in Paris, which runs from July 3-6.
Reviews: Oyceter finds vols. 3 and 4 of Kotobuki Tarako (Love Pistols) weirdly fascinating. Elizabeth Schweitzer reviews vols. 1-4 of Mamotte! Lollipop at PLAYBACK:stl. At About.com, Deb Aoki checks out vols. 1 and 2 of Dororo. EvilOmar posts some brief manga reviews at About Heroes. Ken Haley takes a look at the VIZBIG omnibus vol. 1 of Rurouni Kenshin at Manga Recon. At Okazu, Erica Friedman critiques vol. 3 of Ninin ga Shinobuden. Holly Ellingwood reads vol. 12 of Hikaru no Go and vol. 25 of The Prince of Tennis, and Rachel Bentham checks out vol. 6 of Love*Com, at Active Anime. Tiamat’s Disciple reviews two light novels, vol. 1 of Scrapped Princess and vol. 1 of Kino No Tabi. Lissa Pattillo checks out vol. 1 of The Moon and Sandals at Kuri-ousity. Julie takes a look at vol. 4 of Muhyo and Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural investigation at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Ben Leary reviews vol. 1 of Dragon Sister and Sakura Eries reads vol. 2 of Bride of the Water God at Anime on DVD.
Rachel’s review actually appears to be for volume 6 of Love*Com, which I thankfully realized before getting spoiled too much. :)
You’re right! Thanks, Jun.
That Michelle rejected my comment. Stuff like that annoys me, damn comment pre-approval.
Thank you for the link, Brigid! Hope you had a lovely FCBD.
And Dear Anonymous, *trolling* annoys this Michelle. I do appreciate your effort though. You were my very first not-automated troll!
I went too late and all the manga-related titles were gone at my local Free-Comic-Book-Day!
(If it was free, how did I end up spending 20 bucks?)
Overall…fun time by the whole family!
Expressing one’s opinion =/= trolling