The MangaCast team picks the best of this week’s new releases, and Ed Chavez has some additional news in the same post: Due to his new responsibilities (he just signed on as marketing director for Vertical, Inc.), he’s stepping back a bit from the blog and is looking for some new talent. So if you’re an aspiring manga writer, check it out!
Kate Dacey also takes a look at this week’s new manga at The Manga Critic.
David Welsh thumbs through the May Previews to plan his future buying. And he has a request for manga publishers: Please license Witches, by Daisuke Igarashi, creator of Children of the Sea.
Erica Friedman posts the yuri news of the week at Okazu. Also: Win a copy of Yuri Monogatari 6! Erica is also the guest on the latest Anime Today podcast.
Usually Lissa Pattillo finds books that haven’t been announced yet, but in this post, she notes some that aren’t there—possibly cancelled books from Digital Manga. All is speculation until she hears from the publisher, however.
John Jakala polls his readers on what they think of Rumiko Takahashi’s Rin-ne so far, and he also has a Mother’s Day meditation on Ranma 1/2.
Chinese artist Benjamin, best known over here for his work Orange, has drawn the cover for the latest Marvel New Mutants comic.
News from Japan: At MangaCast, Ed posts the weekly manga rankings from Taiyosha and the doujin rankings from Toranoana.
Reviews: At The Manga Critic, Kate Dacey posts brief reviews of two new books from CMX, Genghis Khan and vol. 1 of Venus Capriccio. The Manga Recon team posts five short reviews in their latest Manga Minis feature. A couple of manga-related prose books got reviewed recently as well: At The Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie takes a look at Cathy Yardley’s novel Turning Japanese, about an American woman who wins a manga competition and gets to be an intern for a Japanese publisher, and Japanator’s Brad Rice reviews Schoolgirl Milky Crisis, a book of essays by Jonathan Clements on the anime and manga industry.
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 12 of Air Gear (Kuriousity)
Lissa Pattillo on Angel’s Coffin (Kuriousity)
Lissa Pattillo on Awaken Forest (Kuriousity)
Connie on vol. 10 of Banana Fish (Slightly Biased Manga)
Michelle Smith on vols. 1, 2, and 3 of Beauty Pop (Soliloquy in Blue)
Connie on vol. 20 of Black Cat (Slightly Biased Manga)
Emily on Boku Kara Kimi ga Kienai (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Julie on vol. 36 of Boys Over Flowers (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Michelle Smith on vol. 3 of Case Closed (Soliloquy in Blue)
Steffi MC on vol. 1 of Code Geass: Suzaku of the Counterattack (The Star of Malaysia)
Sarah Boslaugh on The Color of Earth (PLAYBACK:stl)
Julie on The Dawn of Love (Mangacast)
Billy Aguiar on vol. 1 of Dinosaur Hour (Prospero’s Manga)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 1 of Do Whatever You Want (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Susan Carpenter on A Drifting Life (The Los Angeles Times)
Tangognat on vol. 1 of Fire Investigator Nanase (Tangognat)
Connie on vol. 1 of Gestalt (Slightly Biased Manga)
Tangognat on vol. 1 of Honey Hunt (Tangognat)
Connie on vol. 1 of Kyo Kara Maoh (Slightly Biased Manga)
David Welsh on vol. 1 of The Lapis Lazuli Crown (Precocious Curmudgeon)
Julie on Living for Tomorrow (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Connie on vol. 1 of Maid Sama! (Manga Recon)
Lori Henderson on vol. 4 of Mamotte! Lollipop (Manga Xanadu)
Grant Goodman on vol. 1 of Nabari no Ou (Manga Recon)
Oyceter on vols. 16 and 17 of Nana (Japanese version) (Sakura of DOOM)
Sesho on vol. 31 of Naruto (podcast review) (Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews)
Snow Wildsmith on Naughty But Nice (Fujoshi Librarian)
Connie on vol. 11 of Oh My Goddess (Slightly Biased Manga)
Julie on vol. 1 of Orange Planet (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Connie on vol. 12 of Ouran High School Host Club (Slightly Biased Manga)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Stop, Drop, and Read!)
Connie on vol. 3 of Pluto (Slightly Biased Manga)
Emerian Rich on vols. 1 and 2 of Princess Resurrection (dashPunk)
Justin Colussy-Estes on vol. 7 of Puri Puri (Comics Village)
Cathy on vol. 1 of Reborn! (it can’t all be about manga)
Stephen Taylor on vols. 1-6 of Reiko The Zombie Shop (The Daily Yomiuri)
Lori Henderson on vol. 8 of SA (Comics Village)
Connie on vol. 11 of Sgt. Frog (Slightly Biased Manga)
Cynthia on vol. 6 of Totally Captivated (Boys Next Door)
Cynthia on U Don’t Know Me (Boys Next Door)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 2 of Walkin’ Butterfly (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Michelle Smith on vol. 3 of We Were There (Soliloquy in Blue)
J. Caleb Mozzocco on vol. 1 of Wolverine: Prodigal Son (Blog@Newsarama)
Tiamat’s Disciple on issue 5 of Yen Plus magazine (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)