Jason Thompson’s trip through the world of obscure manga continues with a look at Devilman, a Go Nagai manga that has been through several incarnations but had the misfortune of being published in the U.S. just before the manga boom.
Sean Gaffney checks out this week’s new manga. David Welsh finds the solicitation for Moto Hagio’s A Drunken Dream in the new Previews.
Lori Henderson rounds up the week’s manga news at Manga Xanadu, and Erica Friedman posts the latest Yuri Network News at Okazu.
Vertical, Inc., marketing director Ed Chavez is asking fans what manga they would like to see the company license next, and former intern Ko Ransom compiles the Twitter conversation into a single page for your reading convenience.
Animate braves the Cigarette Kisses curse (the last two companies to license it both went under) and brings that and three other yaoi titles to the Kindle, and Media Factory has published an iPad version of My Darling is a Foreigner.
Negima tops the latest New York Times manga best-seller list, and both volumes of Black Butler are still there; Seven Seas makes an appearance in the number 7 slot with vol. 7 of Dance in the Vampire Bund.
At Manga Desu, Andrew considers two possibilities for a series: Sales can drop off once the last volume is published, or it can become a classic and continue to remain available and visible. (Death Note, for instance, continues to place in BookScan’s top 750 sellers each year although it wrapped up a couple of years ago.) He thinks the fans have a lot of influence over this, and he specifically suggests, in the comments, that Amazon reviews can help.
Sesho devotes his latest podcast to scan sites and bloggers who blame them for everything.
Tim Maughan reports in from the London Expo, with plenty of pictures.
An exhibit in Japan shows that we are getting closer to achieving the technology of Doraemon.
Reviews: EvilOmar turns his hand to some short reviews at About Heroes.
Melinda Beasi on vols. 1 and 2 of Arata: The Legend (Manga Bookshelf)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 31 of Bleach (The Comic Book Bin)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 3 of Butterflies, Flowers (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
D.M. Evans on vol. 3 of Cat Paradise (Manga Jouhou)
Connie on vol. 3 of Children of the Sea (Slightly Biased Manga)
Eduardo Zacarias on vol. 5 of Detroit Metal City (Animanga Nation)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Flower in a Storm and vol. 3 of Rin-ne (The Manga Critic)
Michelle Smith on vols. 1 and 2 of Fullmetal Alchemist (Soliloquy in Blue)
Connie on vol. 7 of Gentlemen’s Alliance+ (Slightly Biased Manga)
Greg McElhatton on vol. 5 of Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (Read About Comics)
Kristin on vol. 2 of Itazura Na Kiss (Comic Attack)
Liz McKinney on vol. 5 of Maid Sama (Manga Life)
Shaenon Garrity on Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby (About.com)
Kate Dacey on Mugen Spiral (omnibus edition) (Good Comics for Kids)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 8 of Nana (Panel Patter)
Sean Gaffney on vols. 49 and 50 of One Piece (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Wilma Jandoc on Phoenix Wright Official Casebook Vol. 2: The Miles Edgeworth Files (Otaku Ohana)
Connie on vol. 7 of Sand Chronicles (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 7 of St. Dragon Girl (Slightly Biased Manga)
Zack Davisson on vol. 1 of Toriko (Japan Reviewed)
Erica Friedman on vol. 6 of Tsubomi (Okazu)
Connie on vol. 8 of V.B. Rose (Slightly Biased Manga)
Hi Brigid—thanks for the link, but I just wanted to let you know that despite my first name in romanized Japanese being Kou, it’s just Ko when written in English. Sorry for any confusion.
Whoops! As someone whose name is frequently misspelled myself, you have my sincerest apologies! I’ll fix it forthwith.
Thanks for the mention! The link to the post is http://manga.higevsotaku.com/?p=19 :3