At PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon blog, Kate Dacey retools the Weekly Recon to include the complete release list plus her top picks.
Down at the Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie goes over the manga she’ll be buying from the latest issue of Previews.
Erica Friedman interviews yuri manga translator Anastasia Moreno at Okazu. Also: Yuri news highlights for the past week.
At Kuri-ousity, Lissa Pattillo notes that the Go! Comi folks have posted the covers of 07-Ghost on their DeviantArt site, and she likes what she sees. Also: Free Comic Book Day, manga-style!
In her latest Panelosophy column at ComiPress, Chloe Ferguson thinks it’s time for mainstream reporters to get a clue when writing about manga.
The Broccoli folks have posted a preview of vol. 1 of Nui.
Want to win a copy of Haridama from Del Rey? Deb Aoki at About.com has the scoop.
News from Japan: ANN reports that Arina Tanemura will wind up The Gentlemens Alliance+ and start a new series, Mistress Fortune, in the July issue of Ribon magazine. Also, Ayumi Komura, creator of Mixed Vegetables (to be released here by Viz) has started a new manga, Joō-sama no Tamago (Queen’s Egg), in Margaret magazine. ComiPress has the news that since Peach-Pit shifted Rozen Maiden from Comic BIRZ to Young Jump, Shueisha will re-release the already published volumes under its Young Jump imprint. At the MangaCast, Ed starts his big list of Japanese releases with the ero manga for May.
News from Germany: Manly Manga and More has the new release list for May.
Reviews: David Welsh reviews vol. 1 of Dororo and makes some good points along the way, at Precocious Curmudgeon. Carlo Santos finds much to like about vol. 1 of Hotel Africa at ANN. Julie checks out vol. 6 of Love*Com at the Manga Maniac Cafe. At Kuri-ousity, Lissa Pattillo reads Sensitive Pornograph, vol. 8 of Air Gear, and vol. 6 of Genju no Seiza. Manga Junkie Shizuki has a detailed writeup on vol. 8 of Cat Street, a Japanese title. At Active Anime, Scott Campbell has an advance review of vol. 19 of Whistle, Holly Ellingwood takes a sneak peek at Endless Rain, and Rachel Bentham checks out Better Than a Dream. Dave Ferraro observes Manga Monday with a stack of short reviews at Comics-and-More. Michell reads vols. 30, 31, and 32 of InuYasha at Soliloquy in Blue. Lori Henderson reviews vol. 2 of Phantom and vol. 4 of Genju no Seiza, and daughter Krissy recommends vol. 1 of Kingdom Hearts, at Manga Xanadu. At Anime on DVD, Greg Hackmann reads a light novel, vol. 1 of Missing, and Gary Thompson looks at vol. 9 of Eden. Erica Friedman reviews vol. 3 of Ninin ga Shinobuden at Okazu.
Thanks for all the links! The first one leads to your website though, and I didn’t review anything called Cat Street; though I did review Genju no Seiza volume 6 by Tokyopop, if that’s what you meant?
I read Chloe Ferguson’s write up on mainstream writers yesterday and I definately agree. Though you can’t expect everyone to know a whole lot, the basics such as it’s not all big eyed, big breasted porn would show they’re atleast vaguely up to speed on the genre and culture.
Thanks, Kuri. There was some sort of coding glitch that wiped out part of the sentence in the reviews section. I fixed it and put in the proper link above.
Fans of The Gentleman’s Alliance find it hilarious how late ANN was with the Arina Tanemura news. It was first reported in English at Ribon Waku-Waku (http://community.livejournal.com/ribon_wakuwaku/39964.html) on the 30th of April, and a few hours before that on Arina’s official blog.
Shape up, ANN!
That ‘competition’ from Del Rey is nothing new, it’s what they do for every release they do. Choose 10 entries from a pool and send them a copy for free, on the condition they write a short review.