The culture wars continue, sort of, at Comicsnob, where non-manga-reader Bob Holt reaches out and discusses what manga does well. Meanwhile, at Shuchaku East, Chloe gives her take:
Evidently, American comics never really felt compelled to take an interest my readership; it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise when I return the favor.
Also at Comicsnob: Matt Blind takes a shot at compiling a weekly manga watch list.
At Yaoi911, Alex is showing how he creates a yaoi manga step by step. The latest post is the inked version. The webcomic interface is pretty cool too, although the page is a little bigger than my puny iBook G4 screen can handle.
ChunHyang72 posts another manga minute, guiding readers to all the good stuff on Tokyopop—which, I must say, has improved a lot over the early days.
At the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wilma Jandoc and Jason Yadao look over five different manga series, including one they are glad ADV dropped.
Reviews: Hung at the BasuGasuBakuhatsu Anime Blog thinks vol. 5 of Kamui is the best so far and prefers vol. 1 of Welcome to the NHK to the anime. At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 7 of Hana-Kimi and vol. 2 of Black Knight. Down at the Mangamaniaccafe, Julie gives a gentlemen’s C to vol. 1 of Lovely Sick but gives a better grade to vol. 2 of Night of the Beasts. At Comicsnob, Matt Blind reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Angel Cup. PopCultureShock’s Katherine Dacey-Tsuei enjoys vol. 1 of Shaman Warrior. Precocious Curmudgeon David Welsh reviews three titles from CMX, Canon, Go Go Heaven!! and Oyayubihime Infinity. And there’s a weekend flurry of activity at Slightly Biased Manga, where Connie posts reviews of vol. 1 of Let’s Be Perverts, vols. 4 and 5 of Revolutionary Girl Utena, IC in a Sunflower, vol. 1 of Gerard & Jacques, and vol. 10 of Detective Conan.
Yeah, I couldn’t make it past the first 10 pages of ADV’s Desert Coral. Not only did it not make a bit of sense, but the lettering made it worse.