Hop on the omnibus, Gus: David Welsh writes about those big, beautiful volumes in his latest Flipped column.
Tiamat’s Disciple interviews Kurt Hassler and George Walkey of Yen Press about their titles, the grey market, and more!
There’s quite the discussion going on about vols. 12-14 of Angel Sanctuary at Rachel Manija Brown’s LJ. Beware of spoilers! (Via coffeeandink.)
Christopher Butcher has pictures of his visit to the Kinokuniya bookstore in Shinjuku, which is what my mother would call a busman’s holiday. Also: Only five copies of Tekkonkinkreet left at The Beguiling!
It’s time for publishers to submit their work for the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation’s annual awards. (Via ComiPress.)
Chloe writes about what translations can’t convey at Shuchaku East.
ANN reports that Yuusuke Murata, the artist of Eyeshield 21, will be doing a one-shot manga for Jump Square magazine. And Angel Sanctuary‘s Kaori Yuki will do a 92-page one-shot for Bessatsu Hana to Yume.
It sounds like the folks at June manga had a good time writing the press release for All Nippon Air Lines (check out the acronym—yeah, it’s yaoi), but the ComiPress bloggers who ran it put on the finishing touch with their headline. And you can see their two dust jackets—the one you can bring to work and the one you can’t—at the June blog.
In other yaoi news, global yaoi manga creators Dany&Dany will be guests of honor at Anime Central.
The Broccoli blog posts the cover of vol. 1 of Nui. So cute!
Blogroll update: This is totally OT, but I bet some of you will find it interesting: My clever and talented sister-in-law, Jennifer Waits, has just started Spinning Indie, a blog on college radio and independent music. Check it out! Also, new to the blogroll is Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews, which is just what it sounds like, except he forgot to mention that they are podcasts.
Reviews: Michelle Ramonetti reviews vol. 1 of Platinum Garden at Anime on DVD. At Comics-and-more, Dave Ferraro finds vol. 1 of Ral Ω Grad flawed but promising. Connie checks out vols. 6, 7, and 8 of Skip Beat, vol. 3 of Heroes are Extinct, vol. 5 of Moon Child, and vol. 1 of Sand Chronicles at Slightly Biased Manga. Lissa Pattillo is reviewing her manga and then letting it go; the latest volume to be purged is vol. 1 of Level C. EvilOmar posts some short Monday Manga Reviews at About Heroes. At Prospero’s Manga, Ferdinand is not too impressed with vol. 1 of Love Master A. Julie reads vol. 1 of Hell Girl and Youn In-Wan’s Deja-Vu Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter at the Manga Maniac Cafe. “I adore evil, psychotic lesbians,” says Erica Friedman, as she dives into vol. 4 of Gunsmith Cats Burst. ‘Nuff said! Tiamat’s Disciple takes a first look at vol. 1 of Sundome. Johanna Draper Carlson checks out vol. 8 of Kagetora at Comics Worth Reading. Leroy Douresseaux likens I’ll Be Your Slave to a Hollywood romantic comedy at The Comic Book Bin. At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 2 of Cherry Juice and Sandra Scholes reads vol. 1 of Legends of the Dark Crystal: The Garthim Wars. Jason Punda checks out vol. 1 of Dragon Eye at Manga Jouhou.
I do mostly podcasts, but I also do written reviews as well. Basically, if an entry has Episode in the title, it’s a podcast. If it doesn’t then it’s a written text review. Thanks for adding me to the blogroll Brigid. I really enjoy your site.