CMX chat, more real girls, and Jason Thompson's manga cameo

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit down before you start reading the Manga Recon roundtable on CMX. It’s an in-depth look at their manga line and marketing by a group of mangaholics with widely varying tastes. CMX isn’t as well known as the big boys, but they publish a very nice line of solid shoujo, horror, and kids’ titles. In fact, the book on my nightstand right now is their Astral Project, and I’m really enjoying it.

David Welsh has some love for CMX as well in his second Flipped column about real girls in manga, and he also points to some heroines worth checking out from Viz and Del Rey.

Japanator lists this week’s new manga and anime releases, and Manga Recon lists fresh manga as well. And at The Yaoi Review, Sakura Kiss looks at some October yaoi releases.

The reporter becomes part of the story: Jason Thompson makes a cameo appearance in Fairy Tail.

ANN notes that vol. 31 of Naruto is at numer 65 on the USA Today Booklist.

At Rocket Bomber, Matt Blind reminds us that September is over and Kodansha hasn’t set up their U.S. manga imprint yet.

Yamila Abraham of Yaoi Press will be at SitaCon this weekend.

The Viz folks remind us that Halloween is on the way by highlighting some of their spookier titles.

News from Japan: Young Champion magazine will feature not one but two spinoffs of the manga Crows.

Reviews: Ferdinand admits it’s hard to review Tezuka’s work, but he still takes a stab at reviewing vol. 1 of Dororo at Prospero’s Manga. Tiamat’s Disciple reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Freak: Legend of the NonBlonds. Michelle Smith is finally won over by vol. 3 of Fairy Tail at Soliloquy in Blue. On the other hand, Julie is somewhat underwhelmed by vol. 1 of Fate/Stay Night, despite a strong opening, at the Manga Maniac Cafe. At Kuri-ousity, Lissa Pattillo enjoys vol. 16 of Black Cat, showing that a long-running series can keep its mojo. Sesho podcasts his thoughts on vol. 1 of Tsubasa at Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews. Avi Weinryb reviews vol. 4 of Mushishi for The Comic Book Bin. Michelle Smith falls hook, line, and sinker for Seduce Me After the Show at Manga Recon. Charles Tan checks out vol. 3 of the VIZBIG edition of Rurouni Kenshin at Comics Village. At Comic Pants, Dan Grendell posts some short manga reviews in this month’s Manga Zubon column. Erica Friedman wraps up her review of vol. 6 of Yuri Hime S at Okazu. Lori Henderson catches up on her back issues of Shonen Jump at Manga Xanadu.

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  1. i went to go buy a lot of cmx titles from deepdiscount.com. not sure if you’ve heard of the place, but it’s awesome. i was looking for Swan, King of Cards, Tears of a Lamb and From Eroica with Love…..it said that all of the volumes of these mangas were no longer available. Even ones like Swan 13 that came out in July. this has me very nervous, ofcourse i just went and found them on Amazon…but if places are just deciding to no longer carry their books, that would be bad for them, right? or if these titles really are no longer available…that’s not good either. either way i’m very worried.