Tomorrow is the last day to vote for the Rising Stars of Manga People’s Choice Award. Confused by the 24 selections? Manga Jouhou has prepared a handy guide, with quick synopses and opinions. Also: a report on the Otaku Awards.
Thanks to a tip from an alert reader, Ed has the skinny on new titles from Viz at the MangaCast, and he has also posted audio of the NYCC panel with the unfortunate title “Capturing Female Readers.” And don’t miss his essay on titles on hiatus.
Webdoujinshi? CuriousFactory, is offering distribution of non-Japanese works through the web portal DLSite.com. Simon Jones considers the possibilities. (Second link is NSFW.)
ChunHyang brings her usual bounty of links to the latest Manga Minute.
David Welsh takes a field trip to check his preconceptions about manga in bookstores.
One Potato Two asks: Which way does your interrobang go?
Here’s more on the recently announced Yaoi Press titles.
Send in a questionnaire, get an awesome sticker from Broccoli.
An Irish magazine called The Mongrel explains the history of tentacle porn (NSFW, obviously).
At the Star of Malaysia, Tom Baker explores the joys of cosplay in a review of Cosplay: Catgirls and Other Critters, and the staff also post reviews of vol. 1 of Captain Nemo, vol. 2 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles, vol. 1 of O-Parts Hunter, and the novel Scrapped Princess. At the Comic Book Bin, Leroy Douresseaux enjoys Chibi Vampire: The Novel. At the Mangmaniaccafe, Julie reads vol. 1 of Moon Boy and the manga adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Active Anime’s Christopher Seaman adds the police yaoi title Alcohol, Shirt, and Kiss to his rap sheet and goes the alliteration route with reviews of vol. 6 of Guru Guru Pon-Chan and vol. 5 of Sugar Sugar Rune, while Holly Ellingwood checks out vol. 11 of Trigun Maximum: Zero Hour. Tangognat reads Vampire Night and Trinity Blood. Tom Mazanec reviews vol. 1 of Buddha for the Calvin College newspaper, starting out with an arresting comparison of manga fans to a neighbor’s Doberman. At Anime on DVD, Danielle Van Gorder checks out the Princess Ai artbook, Princess Ai: Roses and Tattoos. Slightly Biased Manga reviews vol. 3 of Bride of Deimos and vols. 11, 12, and 13 of Detective Conan.
I will admit that learning the history of tentacle porn wasn’t on my to-do list today, but as long as it’s there, I might as well. I had just been reading about shunga prints courtesy of Frederik Schodt, but I don’t think he specifically mentions that Hokusai invented tentacle porn (of course, I also haven’t gotten to the porn chapter yet). The more you know, as they say.
“Tentacle Porn” would make a real fun band name. Anybody else agree?
Anyway, thanks for the links. D Welsh is fun as always.