The latest New York TImes Graphic Books Bestseller List is up, and Vampire Knight tops the list this week.
It’s license request day at Precocious Curmudgeon, and David Welsh is keeping it simple: More Ai Yazawa, please.
Elizabeth Shupe writes about Mitsukazu Mihara’s early works at Girlamatic.
If you’re not on Twitter, you’re missing the party, but fortunately Gia has summarized the most interesting anime and manga conversations of the past week at Anime Vice.
News from Japan: The government has put its economic growth policy into manga form, with a 16-year-old schoolgirl explaining it all to you.
Reviews
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 13 of Air Gear (Kuriousity)
Danielle Leigh on vol. 1 of Angelic Runes (Comics Should Be Good)
Connie on vol. 14 of From Eroica With Love (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 20 of Fullmetal Alchemist (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate Dacey on vols. 1-3 of Jyu-Oh-Sei (The Manga Critic)
Shojo Flash on vol. 1 of Kimi ni Todoke (Shojo Flash)
Tangognat on Marmalade Boy (Tangognat)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 3 of Mars (i heart manga)
Sam Kusek on issues 1-6 of Midnight Eye: Goku, Private Investigator (Manga Recon)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of Rin-ne (Manga Xanadu)
Emily on Shangri Love (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
asamisgirl on vol. 2 of Ze (The Yaoi Review)
Gia Manry on vol. 1 of Zone-00 (Anime Vice)
Inspired by the NYT list: Am I the only person in the world that is sick of freakin vampires and paranormal chick investigators and so called “urban fantasy”? All you have to do is put the word “vampire” on a book and it will sell. You could probably put “Vampire” on a cigar box of maggots and it would become a hot new commodity! They need to get rid of Oprah Winfrey and her magazine and just get a vampire talk show host (that would be a good idea for a manga!). The ratings would be through the roof! I think the next president of the United States should be a vampire! What is the inherent eroticism in getting bitten by what is essentially a giant tick? What is the source of this necrophilic lust that lies within some guys and girls?
Another idea that is so burned out on in manga and anime: Demon Hunting! UGH.
You definitely aren’t the only one. Vampires this, vampires that. Though it would be nice to cash in on this craze… No wait, I’m making it worse.