Let’s lead with some news from Japan this morning: Hello Kitty will spread her message of enlightenment to the world via a new manga serial in Ribon magazine, Hello Kitty Peace!! No doubt leaders all over the world will be laying down their arms and leaving their war rooms to follow the Mouthless One. The manga will be drawn by Anzu Momoyama. (Image swiped from ANN.)
In his latest Flipped column, David Welsh starts a series on Eisner-nominated manga and manga creators with a look at Fumi Yoshinaga, Takeshi Obata, and Naoki Urasawa’s Monster.
Tiamat’s Disciple joins the discussion about whether reviewers should cover older titles and mentions a factor that had occurred to me: Many of the older volumes are out of print.
Same Hat! Same Hat! hosts a scanlation of Tokunan Seiichiro’s The Human Clock.
ICv2 has a short article on Dark Horse’s Clover omnibus.
Gia picks up on a teaser about a possible new license on the 801 forums. (Lissa spotted it as well.)
At the MangaCast, Ed lists the Japanese BL releases for May.
Reviews: New reviews up at Comics Village: Dan Polley on vol. 7 of Suzuka, Charles Tan on vol. 8 of D. Gray-Man, John Thomas on vol. 1 of Reiko, The Zombie Shop, and Lori Henderson on vol. 2 of Wild Ones. Jason Green reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Fairy Tail at PLAYBACK:stl. Stephen Taylor has an enthusiastic review of vols. 1-6 of Gatcha Gacha at the Daily Yomiuri. Faith McAdams takes a long look at vol. 2 of High School Debut and Sophie Stevens checks out vol. 1 of Honey and Clover at Animanga Nation. At the Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie is severely unimpressed by vol. 1 of I-Doll. A.E. Sparrow reads vol. 12 of Phoenix and vol. 1 of Yozakura Quartet at IGN. Lissa Pattillo reads vol. 14 of Black Cat at Kuri-ousity. Julie Rosato climbs aboard All Nippon Air Lines and Sakura Eries checks out vol. 2 of A.I. Revolution at Anime on DVD. Tiamat’s Disciple has some thoughts and impressions on vol. 1 of Moon Phase and the light novel vol. 2 of Scrapped Princess. Dan Grendell pulls on the Manga Zubon at Comic Pants, with a set of brief manga reviews. At Manga Jouhou, Snow Wildsmith reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Camera Camera Camera and D.M. Evans checks out vol. 4 of Wild Adapter. Connie checks in with her take on vol. 1 of Oyayubihime Infinity, vol. 9 of Cantarella, vol. 2 of Bride of the Water God, vol. 12 of Phoenix, vol. 17 of One Piece, and vol. 6 of Hoshin Engi at Slightly Biased Manga.
It’s Gatcha Gacha (not “T” on the second word there, but it doesn’t help DEL REY puts out a manga with a title almost identical to this one) and I agree this is probably the best shojo manga title I read that no one knows about it. So glad to see it get some much needed press / love!
Arrgh! Thanks, Danielle! I actually thought when I was reading that that I would have to be careful about the name. My daughter loves this manga, although I almost wouldn’t let her read it because I confused it with the Del Rey one.
It’s like E’S and ES…