Deb Aoki interviews the publishers of ComicLoud, a new bilingual Japanese/English manga magazine that is being published on the Kindle.
Sean Gaffney previews next week’s new manga.
Lori Henderson has the list of this week’s new all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids.
Interesting and obscure old manga is kind of becoming a thing, isn’t it? Kate Dacey writes about Magical Mates, a little-known series from Antarctic, while Jason Thompson looks at Maniac Road, one more entry in the all-about-otaku genre.
Melinda Beasi leads a roundtable on vols. 7 and 8 of Banana Fish at Manga Bookshelf.
Reviews: Wow, Noah Berlatsky really doesn’t like Moto Hagio’s A Drunken Dream and Other Stories! Other reviews of note:
Serdar Yegulalp on vol. 1 of 7 Billion Needles (Genji Press)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 3 of Arata: The Legend (ANN)
Kristin on vol. 6 of Black Bird (Comic Attack)
Julie Opipari on Daniel and Daughter (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Tangognat on vols. 1 and 2 of Demon Sacred (Tangognat)
A Library Girl on vol. 1 of Gravitation (A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)
Charles Webb on vol. 3 of Jack Frost (Manga Life)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 2 of Library Wars (Kuriousity)
Zack Davisson on vol. 6 of Maid Sama (Japan Reviewed)
Ed Sizemore on vol. 2 of Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture (Comics Worth Reading)
Mely on vols. 1-3 of Natsume’s Book of Friends (coffeeandink)
Shaenon Garrity on vol. 1 of The Qwaser of Stigmata (About.com)
Animemiz on Record of a Fallen Vampire (Anime Diet)
Erica Friedman on vol. 21 of Yuri Hime (part 2) (Okazu)
You’ve got some coding issues going on with the title of a drunken dream, brigid.
Also…I only didn’t like the first few stories! Hoping to enjoy the rest more….