Crunchyroll and kid stuff

The Manga Moveable Feast continues with its focus on kids’ manga; at the host site, Good Comics for Kids, Snow Wildsmith interviews VIZ Kids editor Traci Todd about the challenges of choosing and editing manga for kids. Tangognat writes about how she finds Yotsuba&! to be a little creepy when she takes the original context into consideration, and at All About Comics, Daniella Orihuela-Gruber posts a double review of Yotsuba&! and Chi’s Sweet Home.

Deb Aoki talks to Crunchyroll CEO Kun Gao about their plans to develop a platform that manga publishers can use to put their work online.

Kate Dacey, Brad Rice, and David Welsh look at this week’s new manga, and Melinda Beasi makes her pick of the week: vol. 3 of Twin Spica.

Ed Chavez posts the list of manga from the latest Previews.

News from Japan: 13 years after the last episode ran in Shueisha’s Super Jump, the comedy manga Golden Boy is returning, this time to Business Jump. At MangaCast, Ed has the weekly sales rankings from Taiyosha. And Canned Dogs translates a Tweet that reveals that Eiichiro Oda is already back at work on One Piece, after a one-week break.

Reviews

Sean Kleefeld on vol. 1 of Bakuman (Kleefeld on Comics)
Kate Dacey on Calling, Gorgeous Carat Galaxy, and Scarlet (The Manga Critic)
Erica Friedman on vol. 5 of Lucky Star (Okazu)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Seiho Boys’ High School (ANN)

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