Podcasts, Pluto, and Previews

The real reason I went to Anime Boston is that Ed Chavez asked me to be part of his manga bloggers’ panel, which also included Erin Finnegan, Vertical former intern Ko Ransom, AICN‘s Scott Green, Anime World Order‘s Clarissa Graffeo, and Anime Jump‘s Michael Toole. If you’re curious, or just have some time to kill, listen in on Erin’s podcast as Ed peppers us with questions and we totally muff them. A good time was had by all!

Also, check out my roundup of spring graphic novels at SLJTeen; several manga made the cut.

Kristin looks at manga in the April Previews in her Bento Bako Lite column at Comic Attack.

David Uzumeri has an interesting piece comparing Urasawa’s adaptation of Astro Boy (Pluto) with Grant Morrison’s re-imagining of Superman at Comics Alliance.

TCJ has the audio of Jason Thompson’s Sakura Con panel, The Secret History of Manga. (Link goes directly to audio.)

Matt Thorn has a lovely remembrance of manga-ka Shio Satoh, who died this week.

Dan Kois celebrates Pluto Day at The Awl, and he thinks you should, too.

Dan Kanemitsu states the case against expanding the definition of child pornography to include fictional images. (Via Simon Jones.)

At Same Hat!, Ryan continues his historical posts on manga with a piece on early colorists and a reprint of an essay by Fred Patten from an early edition of Mai the Psychic Girl.

Alethea and Athena Nibley write about the art and science of translation at Manga Life.

Amy Forsyth, who translated manga, including Azumanga Daioh, Kare Kano, and Yotsuba&!, for ADV, Tokyopop, and Yen Press, has died.

Tell Kate Dacey your favorite Tezuka character and you might win a copy of Ode to Kirihito. Also, David Welsh is giving away two Natsume Ono manga, not simple and Ristorante Paradiso, to readers who have mixed reactions to a given creator.

Also, David’s Shoujo-Shonen alphabet reaches the letter Y, where the offerings are getting pretty sparse.

If you’re going to be in San Francisco on Friday, check out Mecha Mania: Four Decades of Slam-Bang Sci-Fi Robot Anime, hosted by Otaku USA editor in chief Patrick Macias.

Reviews

Andre on vol. 3 of Bamboo Blade (Kuriousity)
Snow Wildsmith on vols. 1-5 of Bride of the Water God (Good Comics for Kids)
Michelle Smith on vols. 14 and 15 of Cheeky Angel (Soliloquy in Blue)
Todd Douglass on vol. 5 of Cirque du Freak (Anime Maki)
Connie on vol. 2 of Crown of Love (Slightly Biased Manga)
Julie Opipari on vol. 6 of Dance in the Vampire Bund (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Noah Berlatsky on vol. 1 of Dorohedoro (The Comics Journal)
Connie on vol. 1 of Dorohedoro (Slightly Biased Manga)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 10 of Fairy Tail (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of Flat & Flow (Okazu)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 9 of Honey and Clover (i heart manga)
Susan S. on The Lonely Egotist (Manga Jouhou)
Kae Dacey on vols. 1 and 2 of Ode to Kirihito (The Manga Critic)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 39 of One Piece (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 8 of Pluto (The Comic Book Bin)
Lori Henderson on Prisoner of the Tower (Manga Xanadu)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Rosario + Vampire (Stop, Drop, and Read!)
Connie on vol. 1 of Seimaden (Slightly Biased Manga)
Emily on Seiyuu Ka-! (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Connie on vol. 1 of The Summit (Slightly Biased Manga)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 8 of We Were There (Manga Life)
Barb Lien-Cooper on vol. 7 of Yotsuba&! (Manga Life)

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Comments

  1. Hi, Brigid! Glad to hear the Anime Boston panel was a success! Just a quick note: there’s no link to my review of “Ode to Kirihito,” just a mention. Here’s the link: http://mangacritic.com/?p=4023. Thanks!

  2. Sorry, Kate! It’s fixed now.