Thinking ahead to Wednesday? TheOtaku and Manga Recon have this week’s new manga lists up, and Manga Recon adds some reviews of recent titles. As a special bonus, blogger Katherine Dacey-Tsuei takes an early look at vol. 1 of Jim Henson’s Legends of the Dark Crystal: The Garthim Wars.
Meanwhile, Comicsnob posts the online sales rankings for this past week.
Same Hat! Same Hat!! hosts another short scanlation, this one of Shintaro Kago’s The Memories of Others.
Shaenon Garrity has an Overlooked Manga Festival Special Event: The top ten lines from Excel Saga.
David Welsh looks at online manga in last week’s Flipped column. (Yes, I’m late noting this, but it’s well worth a look.)
Animetique comments on that WSJ article criticizing Japan for using manga to enhance cultural ties.
Over at Blogcritics, Bill Sherman takes a look at the Naruto Nation blitz.
New titles watch: Yaoi Suki notes a possible new license for Deux, the yaoi imprint of new publisher Aurora. At the MangaCast, Ed has the cover plus another possible title. He also posts covers and info on four possible new titles from Netcomics; the newly announced Dororo, from Vertical; the global title Undertown, from Tokyopop; two new titles from Icarus (NSFW); and the latest volume of Lunar Legend Tsukihime. And he throws in some previews to get your week off to a good start.
Blogger Daelite shares some pages of the classic manga The Tale of Genji.
The museum show Shojo Manga! Girl Power! is coming to British Columbia.
The New York Times pays a visit to the New York outpost of Japanese used-book store chain Book-Off.
Reviews: At Muttblog, Muttpop Bob reviews Lady Snowblood. I somehow missed out on last week’s batch of reviews from The Star of Malaysia, so here they are: vol. 2 of 100% Perfect Girl, vol. 1 of Togari, and vol. 1 of Kon Kon Kokon. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie reviews vol. 4 of Adolf. Erica Friedman looks at a yuri manga in Japanese, Kawaii Anata, at Okazu. At Prospero’s Manga, Ferdinand enjoys the art in vol. 1 of Demon Flowers. Julie Rosato checks out the one-shot Spell at Anime on DVD. At Manga Life, Robert Murray reviews vol. 1 of Poison Candy, Dan Polley reviews vol. 14 of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle and vol. 3 of Kitchen Princess, Steven Mortiboy checks out vol. 1 of Black Metal, and Lori Henderson takes a look at vol. 1 of Samurai Commando: Mission 1549. Mangamaniac Julie reviews vol. 2 of Love Pistols at MangaCast. Back at the Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie checks out vol. 18 of Kare Kano and vol. 1 of The Devil Within. The weekend brings a flurry of activity at Manganews, where Cornerofmadness reviews Othello and vol. 5 of Kurogane, and Anne looks at Let’s Draw Manga: Yaoi.
Thanks for linking to my blog! I hope people are able to enjoy my images from The Tale of Genji manga- they’re hard to find outside of Japan :)