Deb Aoki has a roundup of Thursday at Comic-Con that is so thorough, your feet will hurt when you’re done reading it. Anime Diet’s Mike liveblogged the Best and Worst Manga, Yen Press, and Tokyopop panels. Lori Henderson sat out Comic-Con this year and she has some thoughts on what she missed (and what she didn’t) at Manga Xanadu.
The Manga Moveable Feast continues with an Off the Shelf discussion of Paradise Kiss between Melinda Beasi and host Michelle Smith at Manga Bookshelf
Helen McCarthy treats us to another thorough account of a manga-ka who is relatively unknown in English: the pioneer manga-ka Fukujiro Yokoi, who influenced the work of Osamu Tezuka, among others.
I’m a bit late with these links, but I wanted to read them first: Matt Blind speaks some harsh truths to the users of Onemanga.com and other scan sites (although he has a rather rosy view of Communism) and demolishes the argument scan fans keep making that publishers are somehow missing the boat by not simply hiring scanlators and putting their books online for free.
At Okazu, Erica Friedman posts some excellent advice on how to read a review.
News from Japan: Tokyo District Court has ordered the publisher Kodansha to pay a 550,000-yen fine to the man on whom Atsushi Kase modeled a character in the manga Zero-sen. Manga-ka Tsukasa Hojo has told his fans that he will continue his manga Angel Heart even though the magazine that carries it, Comic Bunch, is folding. And ANN has the most recent Japanese comics rankings.
Reviews
Sean Gaffney on Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime (novel) (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Kris on vols. 2 and 3 of Il Gatto Sul G (Manic About Manga)
Zack Davisson on vol. 1 of .hack//LINK (Japan Reviewed)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Hyde & Closer(The Manga Critic)
Connie on vol. 4 of Manga Sutra (Comics Village)
Andre on vol. 5 of St. Dragon Girl (Kuriousity)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Silent Mobius (Okazu)
Maison on vols. 1 and 2 of Wolf’s Rain (Manga Jouhou)