Deb Aoki polls her readers to compile a list of 50 manga every library should own, and real-life librarian Robin Brenner explains why the selections are shelf-worthy.
John Thomas went to the Dark Horse panel at Kumoricon and got a scoop: Both Eden: It’s an Endless World and MPD-Psycho are coming off hiatus.
Gottsu-Iiyan presents part four of his translation of a conversation between Takehiko Inoue and Eiichiro Oda at The Eastern Edge.
Both One Piece and Naruto were inspired by Dragon Ball, Lori Henderson points out, and she examines why One Piece is burning up the charts in Japan while Naruto isn’t.
The Comics Village team looks at the best options from the past week’s new releases.
Sean Gaffney counts down his top ten favorite moments in Negima.
Johanna Draper Carlson looks at the most promising manga due out in November.
Caddy C. posts another interesting essay at A Feminist Otaku, this one about class issues in Skip Beat!
Young Jump magazine is running a two-part history of the Ig Nobel prizes. Check out these sample pages (warning: cleavage!) which are in Japanese but kind of fun nonetheless (theres an explanation in the text). (Via Neatorama.)
Reviews
Kate Dacey on The Art of Osamu Tezuka and Korea as Viewed by 12 Creators (The Manga Critic)
Michelle Smith on vols. 7 and 8 of Banana Fish (Soliloquy in Blue)
Billy Aguiar on vol. 1 of Children of the Sea (Prospero’s Manga)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of Dengeki Daisy (Comics-and-More)
Bill Sherman on vol. 1 of Happy Boys (Blogcritics)
Katherine Farmar on vol. 1 of Ichigenme… The First Class Is Civil Law (Comics Village)
Cynthia on vol. 12 of Junjo Romantica (Boys Next Door)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 9 of Kitchen Princess (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Cynthia on vol. 4 of ZE (Boys Next Door)