Makoto Tateno interviewed; One Piece becomes ubiquitous

hesheitaquaDavid Welsh highlights the manga selections at France’s Angoulême comics festival and unleashes a barrage of license requests for books honored at Angoulême and the Japan Media Arts Festival.

Snow Wildsmith interviews Makoto Tateno at Graphic Novel Reporter.

Lori Henderson posts her digest of the week’s manga news at Manga Xanadu, and Erica Friedman brings us up to speed on all things yuri at Okazu. Melinda Beasi rounds up recent manhwa news and reviews in her latest Manhwa Monday feature at Manga Bookshelf.

Nightschool and Dramacon creator Svetlana Chmakova is resuming work on her webcomic Chasing Rainbows, which is hosted at the Girlamatic. Watch for a podcast interview on the site soon.

The Manga Village writers reveal their picks from the past week’s manga releases.

The New York Times “graphic books” best-seller list is up, and the YA global manga Warriors tops the manga list.

In case you missed it, we announced the winners of our Color of Earth trilogy giveaway at Good Comics for Kids.

ANN’s Evan Miller talks to artist Hanjun Ni.

MonkeyDLuffyNews from Japan: ANN has Oricon’s list of the top-selling manga series for the year 2009, and the list should look familiar to American readers: One Piece, Naruto, Bleach… It’s an interesting list and worth a look. They also post individual volume rankings (top 25, next 25) Meanwhile, One Piece is all over, popping up in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and the fashion magazine Men’s Non-No, where Monkey D. Luffy is the cover model for Januar. The late writer Kaoru Kurimoto, who wrote the Guin Saga novels and manga, has been given a posthumous Nihon SF Taishō award. Fed up with manga, Zenki creator Yoshihiro Kuroiwa is selling his manuscripts from earlier Shonen Jump series. And Takashi Takeuchi (Type-moon) and Jin Kobayashi (School Rumble) are teaming up to make their own doujinshi.

6a00d8341bfb8d53ef0120a70a51a9970b-800wiPatrick Macias has one more look at the gekiga Jaws.

And if you’re in the mood for a bit of swordfighting (hey, Monday does that to me), check out these pages from Blade of the Immortal at Jog’s blog.

Reviews: The Manga Recon team greets the new week with a new set of Manga Minis. At Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie reviews two of Digital’s Harlequin e-manga, Prisoner of the Tower and Sale or Return Bride. And I’m posting Scott VonSchilling’s review of vol. 2 of Yokaiden with some reservations. Scott didn’t read vol. 1 and complains that he couldnt pick up on the story; I think that’s the fault of the reviewer, not the book. While Scott argues that regular recaps are a feature of Japanese manga, Yokaiden was not serialized in a monthly magazine and shouldn’t be expected to follow that format. Scott has some other comments as well, so read it and judge for yourself; feel free to post your take in comments.

Connie on Apothecarius Argentum (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 8 of Arm of Kannon (Slightly Biased Manga)
D.M. Evans on vol. 3 of B.Ichi (Manga Jouhou)
Sophie Stevens on vol. 1 of Black Bird (Animanga Nation)
Connie on vol. 1 of Breath (Slightly Biased Manga)
51yGXtYWPLLMelinda Beasi on vol. 1 of Butterflies, Flowers (Manga Bookshelf)
Connie on vol. 1 of Butterflies, Flowers (Slightly Biased Manga)
Erin Jameson on vol. 1 of Butterflies, Flowers (PLAYBACK:stl)
Nick Smith on vol. 1 of Butterflies, Flowers (ICv2)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 8 of Comic (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 1 of Deka Kyoshi (MangaCast)
Ken Haley on .hack//Alcor (Manga Recon)
Tangognat on .hack//Legend of the Twilight (complete collection) (Tangognat)
Erica Friedman on vol. 3 of Hanayashiki no Junin-tachi (Okazu)
Michelle Smith on vol. 7 of Honey and Clover (Soliloquy in Blue)
Tangognat on vol. 3 of Honey Hunt (Tangognat)
Carlo Santos on vol. 3 of Ikigami (ANN)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Itazura Na Kiss (The Manga Critic)
L. on vol. 1 of Mad Love Chase (The Book Bark)
Zaki Zakaria on vol. 1 of The Manzai Comics (The Star of Malaysia)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 7 of Moon Boy (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Rob on vol. 1 of Nana (Panel Patter)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Nightschool (Stop, Drop, and Read)
Connie on vol. 26 of One Piece (Slightly Biased Manga)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 1 of Raiders (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 13 of School Rumble (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Laura on vol. 1 of Shinobi Life (Heart of Manga)
Lori Henderson on the January issue of Shonen Jump (Manga Xanadu)
Rob on vol. 1 of Tanpenshu (Panel Patter)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 24 of Tsubasa (Kuriousity)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 2 of Two Flowers for the Dragon (i heart manga)
Lori Henderson on vol. 3 of Vampire Hunter D (Comics Village)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 7 of Yotsuba&! (Kuriousity)

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Comments

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    I read this article.
    I saw the photograph of ONE PIECE and became glad.
    I love ONE PIECE!!!