Squeezed in between Pi Day, the Ides of March, and St. Patrick’s Day is… March 16. A little break from all the festivity.
At PopCultureShock, Erin provides the Definitive Guide to the End of Kare Kano. Check it out even if you haven’t read the manga; her comic alone makes it worthwhile. (Her complaint about the freetalk sections would apply to pretty much every manga ever written.)
While everyone else is complaining about publishers dropping series before they are done, John Jakala takes the positive approach and compiles a list of completed series worth reading.
Ed takes a look at uniform manga at the MangaCast.
Manganews translates an article about the growing success of doujinshi. They also report (on the main page, no permalink) that Kodansha has forbidden secondary uses of their characters.
ICv2 has a little more info on Viz’s new shoujo titles, Fall in Love Like a Comic (Manga Mitaina Koi Shitai) and Sand Chronicles (Suna Dokei).
Tangognat’s manga giveaway is still going on, and she’s throwing in some bonus items.
Over in Japan, Kekkaishi has won the Shogakukan manga award.
Reviews: At the BasuGasuBakuhatsu Anime Blog, Hung checks out vol. 3 of Death Note. Connie at Slightly Biased Manga enjoys vol. 6 of Astro Boy more than the previous volumes. At Shuchaku East, Chloe discovers a useful relic from the 1980s, Japan Inc. Scott Campbell reviews vol. 4 of D. Gray-Man for Active Anime. Vol. 3 of Beauty Pop is on the menu at the Mangamaniaccafe. At Okazu, Erica reviews a Japanese yuri anthology, vol. 1 of Gokigenyou. AoD’s Danielle van Gorder checks out a one-shot from DMP, Fumi Yoshinaga’s Moon and Sandals. Prospero’s Manga reviewer Miranda really likes vol. 2 of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and Ferdinand turns in brief reviews of vols. 1 and 2 of Genshiken and vols. 4 and 5 of Pastel. Jessica Severs reviews vol. 1 of Wild Adapter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. At Eye on Comics, Don MacPherson reviews Red String.
It’s prepare to get Crunk day! Yay!
>> They also report (on the main page, no permalink) that Kodansha has forbidden secondary uses of their characters.
Here’s the permalink if you want to add to it.
Heh, was I silly enough to forget to give you the link?
http://www.manganews.net/news.php?article=704
Thanks, FS! I didn’t realize the news items on your front page had permalinks!
By the way, my headline was inspired by some scanner software I had years ago that was called TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name).
Today was the day the My-Lai Massacre happened I believe.
Hey! I’ve had TWAIN for a long time too, I didn’t know it stands for Technology Without An Interesting Name….
Interesting.
“Kekkaishi” won the Shogakukan award? They must be running out of good series, if they had to award it to Kekkaishi. :P My 2 cents.
I’ve had TWAIN for a long time too, I didn’t know it stands for Technology Without An Interesting Name….
Actually, it didn’t acquire that name until later. If you Wiki it, it’s originally from “The Ballad of East and West” which the creators used as a metaphor in explaining the difficulty of connecting scanners with personal computers. Still an odd, random name that has nothing to do with the software itself. -_-;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWAIN
Wikipedia is love. :D
Hey! “The Ballad of East and West” makes for a good name for a program that connects external hardwares to PC! They should have kept it!
Oh now, speaking of which, Rivkah… I am supposed to be reviewing Mangaka America (god that book is sooo gorgeous.. T_T). Though, because that book is so awesome, I don’t want to take the review lightly… *slowly going through all the tutorials*…. Your digital inking tutorial is great, I always wonder how digital inking is done… but I don’t have a PC nor Comicswork! *snuggles her mac*