Tuesday quick links

It’s time for one of my favorite features of the internet, the Overlooked Manga Festival! This week Shaenon Garrity jumps on the Fantagraphics bandwagon with a look at their sole non-porn manga title, Anywhere But Here.

Simon Jones comments (NSFW) on the recent news of declining manga sales in Japan, noting that the decline applies to print only; manga is not going away, he concludes, but the delivery method (and possibly the look) may change.

Read Express has an interview with My Dead Girlfriend creator Eric Wight. (Via Manganews.)

Are you running out of things to read? David Welsh has ten series to check out in his latest Flipped column, and he muses on his own recent reading at Precocious Curmudgeon. But is his stack as big as this?

At Sporadic Sequential, John Jakala weighs in on cancelled series, manga in bookstores, and David Welsh’s choices.

ChunHyang72 rounds up the latest happenings in TokyopopSpace.

ICv2 has the latest on Tokyopop’s kids’ books.

A new member at Manganews is looking for opinions about the educational value of manga.

Reviews: Pata reviews vol. 1 of Mamotte! Lollipop, a new Del Rey title, at ANN. The Del Rey folks were handing out lollipops like, well, candy at NYCC to promote this one, which looks like a lot of fun. The BasuGasuBakuhatsu Anime Blog checks out vol. 1 of VS Versus and vol. 1 of Stray Little Devil. At Anime on DVD, Danielle Van Gorder reviews vol. 1 of Gentleman’s Alliance. At the Mangamaniaccafe, Julie reads vol. 1 of Cipher. Erica Friedman reviews the 100% yuri manga Shoujo Bigaku at Okazu. Holly Ellingwood checks out vol. 7 of Kizuna: Bonds of Love and vol. 2 of My-Hime at Active Anime, while Christopher Seaman reads vol. 7 of Guru Guru Pon-Chan. Yesterday was Manga Monday at Comics-and-More, with reviews of vol. 4 of The Drifting Classroom and vol. 10 of Death Note. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie looks at vols. 6 and 7 of Trigun Maximum.

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Comments

  1. On the TP kids books, I’d love to see more manga geared towards younger readers show up over here. Akira Toriyama’s Cowa would be a good one to license. Even though the KH manga isn’t a very coherent read, I still pick it up because it scratches an itch.

  2. My stack got even bigger if that’s possible! Like I got my ADV stuff from RightStuf, and then I got some stuff today from Viz and CPM!!!

    Not that I’m complaining, but I probably won’t have a life for a while.