Incoming!!

Deb Aoki peers into her crystal ball to find the most noteworthy new manga of the coming year.

David Welsh looks at this week’s new manga and lets the readers vote on which of three uninspiring manga he should choose from the latest Previews. And the newly enlarged Manga Bookshelf crowd make their picks of the week.

Melinda Beasi brings us up to date on all things Korean in her latest Manhwa Monday post at Manga Bookshelf.

Skip the marketing surveys: David Hampton explains how he chooses and reads manga at All About Manga, and it’s an interesting and witty read—be sure to check out his chart showing the manga consumption of different types of readers.

What do manga creator Queenie Chan (The Dreaming, Odd Thomas) and Wikileaks founder Julien Assange? Both made the Queensland, Australia, Courier-Mail’s list of people to watch out for in 2011.

Brent Newhall gives Toriko the full-on treatment in this video parodying manga analyses.

Viz has redesigned their website! Unfortunately, when I checked it this morning, virtually all the page links were broken. Lissa Pattillo noticed this too, and she critiques the design and workability of the new site at Kuriousity.

News from Japan: Ken Akamatsu says he is working with Google to develop a comics reader for his free manga website J-Comi; the reader would allow advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on the user’s location and interests.

Reviews: Ash Brown looks back at a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Aion and vol. 1 of Itsuwaribito (The Manga Critic)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 6 of Happy Cafe (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kiss (Stop, Drop, and Read)
Bill Sherman on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kiss (Seattle PI)
Zack Davisson on vol. 2 of Neko Ramen (Manga Life)
Kristin on vol. 15 of Ouran High School Host Club and vol. 5 of Natsume’s Book of Friends (Comic Attack)
Connie on vol. 9 of Real (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 1 of Real Lies (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 13 of Slam Dunk (The Comic Book Bin)
Todd Douglass on vol. 13 of Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning (Anime Maki)
Emily on Tsuuugaku Densha (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Blog)