In the spirit of Black Friday, Manga Jouhou offers a holiday manga guide.
My husband called me as he was fixing dinner last night to listen to a segment about otaku and another on hikikomori on All Things Considered. In case you missed it, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei has a summary and links for future reading. And then go over to IsShoKenMei for a look at what the hard-core otaku might drive.
Manga returns to the Booklist: volume 10 of Fullmetal Alchemist made this week’s USA Today Top 150.
At Deutsche Mangaka, Elae translates some manga preview pages from Carlsen Comics. I really appreciate Elae’s work, as it makes a big segment of the global manga world more accessible to those of us who don’t speak German.
And at Okazu, Erica is translating the 15th Maria Sama ga Miteru novel (link is to chapter 1), which is also pretty awesome.
Ed at the MangaCast has a podcast review of From Eroica with Love and Trinity Blood and he threw in a curry recipe to help you use up the leftovers. At Anime on DVD, Jarred Pine reviews one of the most talked-about titles of the year, Ohikkoshi. Yaoi Suki takes a look at White Guardian. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie reads Yoki Koto Kiku and decides Koge-Donbo is not for her. Blogcritics reviews Reiko the Zombie Shop. At ANN, Pata reviews Punch! and Melissa “Minai” Harper has a mixed review of The World Exists for Me.
Thanks for the link back! Glad our work doesn’t go unappreciated. ^^
Looks like you put “rhef” instead of “href” in the html, though, so the link doesn’t show up- just thought I’d let you know.
Thanks Elae. I fixed it. (I do that at least once per post, but I usually catch it before I hit “publish.)
This thank you would have come quicker, but I thought I’d actually get some time to read through the otaku & hikkikomori articles before I did so and give a more detailed response. Turns out I didn’t, but I certainly will eventually.
Thank you very much for the linkage, Brigid. ^^ I haven’t had much to say on manga since I’ve lived in Osaka, so I didn’t see this coming, haha.