Vice, Viz, and badass Santa

The MangaCast crew makes their picks from this week’s new releases.

Gia and Maxwell of Anime Vice get a guided tour of the Viz offices. Also from AV: Gia reports that Amazon.jp will stop carrying lolicon and other potentially controversial manga and wonders how far that could go.

Kristy Valenti gets into the holiday mood with a look at Manga Claus at comiXology.

Broccoli Books is having its final warehouse sale this Friday. If you’re in the Los Angeles area and want to check it out, details are here and here.

Jonathan has the list of new German licenses at Manly Manga and More.

News from Japan: Koge-Donbo has a new manga in the works.

Reviews: Congratulations to Prospero’s Manga bloggers Ferdinand and Miranda, who have reached a significant milestone: Cowa! is the 500th book to be reviewed on their site. Lissa Pattillo reviews Sighing Kiss at Kuriousity. Connie checks out vol. 4 of Sand Chronicles and Heaven’s Will at Slightly Biased Manga. Isaac Hale takes the long view in his review of vols. 24 and 25 of Bleach at Manga Recon. John Thomas takes a look at a classic, vol. 1 of Lone Wolf and Cub, at Comics Village. Deb Aoki reviews the print version of Wendy Pini’s webcomic, vol. 1 of Masque of the Red Death, at About.com. Michelle Smith reads vol. 1 of Blade of the Immortal at Soliloquy in Blue. New at Manga Life: Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 15 of Skip Beat! and vol. 3 of Fairy Cube, and Park Cooper on vol. 2 of Real. Julie enjoys vol. 33 of Boys Over Flowers at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 6 of Le Chevalier d’Eon and Davey C. Jones reads vol. 25 of Bleach at Active Anime.

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Comments

  1. We’ve got another video coming up later this week I think you might be interested in, so keep an eye out! :D

  2. Hi, Brigid –

    The link to Julie’s Boys Over Flowers review seems to be the Real, Vol. 2 one again.

  3. Jun: I was just testing you! -_^ It’s fixed—Thanks!

    Gia: I can’t wait!

  4. Gia,

    I too will be on the look out for the video. :)

  5. NNGAAARGH!

    Why do I keep looking at what manga is licensed in Germany? It just makes me depressed! Why do they get creepy weird interesting manga and we don’t? Mizushiro’s BL? Watase’s BL?* Kasane Katsumoto’s josei smut? Dammit, Germany! Share! Is it because we can’t handle it over here? I’m sure that’s the reason Mayu Shinjo’s English-language releases ended at Sensual Phrase but Germany is flooded with her titles.

    *Though admittedly, Watase’s BL is terrible.