At MangaCast, Ed Chavez looks at the BookScan’s top-selling manga for the past week and sorts them according to publisher and demographic.
In his latest trip to the grandma’s attic of manga, Jason Thompson unearths another horror classic, Demon City Hunter.
In a more modern vein, ANN has a roundup of new manga on handheld devices. This month, Animate is launching five yaoi titles, including an exclusive by Youka Nitta, on Kindle; a Japanese company, Recruit, has a new iPhone app that displays manga in English; and NTT Solmare has announced several titles, including Appleseed and Cyborg 009, will be released through the Nokia Ovi store this month.
Reviews
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 3 of Akira (I Reads You)
Kate Dacey on vols. 1 and 2 of Apollo’s Song (The Manga Critic)
Christopher Butcher on vol. 1 of Bakuman (About.com)
Bill Sherman on Chibi Vampire: Airmail (Blogcritics)
Briana Lawrence on Finder, vol. 1: Target in the Viewfinder (Mania.com)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 4 of Karakuri Odette (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 8 of Kitchen Princess (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Penny Kenny on vol. 21 of Nana (Manga Life)
Kiki Van De Camp on vol. 8 of Sand Chronicles (Animanga Nation)
The link to the Karakuri Odette review is missing (along with the blog/website name). ^_^;
The review is here: http://suitablefortreatment.blogspot.com/2010/09/karakuri-odette-volume-4.html at A Case Suitable for Treatment. I’m sure it was just a typo!
Thanks! I got distracted yesterday and thought I had finished it. I fixed the link now.
Someone should let Briana know that she misspelled “Libre” in her Finder review (twice), and only sort of got the history right (I’d do it, but I am not a Mania member and don’t feel like creating an account for one comment). Libre didn’t buy out Biblos, they bought the bulk of their BL catalog. Biblos went bankrupt themselves. A number of their titles reverted back to the original authors and were republished by other companies (like Makoto Tateno’s Yellow, which was picked up by Enterbrain, who created those beautiful omnibuses that DMP rereleased earlier this year). And CPM was an anime company first, then a manga company, and their downfall was more closely related to the Musicland bankruptcy that became the sounding bell for the anime bubble burst a few years back (the liquidation was only finalized last year, it was evident by 2007).