Monday news roundup

As I noted at Robot 6, it looks like Manga Fox is back to its old tricks, posting scanlations of Naruto, Bleach, and other licensed manga after publicly proclaiming it would no longer do so last summer.

Erica Friedman brings us up to date on all things yuri in the latest edition of Yuri Network News at Okazu.

The Comics Village team picks the best of the past week’s new manga.

Kate Dacey gets into the Halloween spirit with a look at her favorite spooky manga at The Manga Critic.

In his latest short video, Masters of Manga blogger Marc Bernabe talks to Kimagure Orange Road creator Izumi Matsumoto about his early experiment with digital manga.

Tina Anderson shows off two new global BL anthologies that will be available at Yaoicon. (Via The Yaoi Review, which is celebrating its second blogiversary—congratulations!)

David Welsh has two license requests this week, and he also asks his readers to name their favorite manga featuring motherless characters.

Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss wordless communication in manga, with plenty of examples, in their latest Let’s Get Visual column at Soliloquy in Blue.

Ed Sizemore, Sean Gaffney, Ron Lopes, and Johanna Draper Carlson discuss New York Anime Fest in the latest Manga Out Loud podcast. Ash Brown has some thoughts on the NYAF panel Gay for You: Yaoi and Yuri Manga for GLBTQ Readers at Experiments in Manga.

Job Board: Viz is hiring in their anime and magazine divisions.

Reviews: Ash Brown posts short takes on recent manga at Experiments in Manga.

Julie Opipari on vol. 1 of Arisa (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Cardcaptor Sakura (omnibus edition) (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 2 of Code:Breaker (The Comic Book Bin)
Alexander Hoffman on Darker Than Black (Manga Widget)
Danica Davidson on The Dreaming: The Collection (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Greg McElhatton on A Drunken Dream and Other Stories (Read About Comics)
Kelakagandy on vols. 1-3 of Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden (kelakagandy’s ramblings)
Danica Davidson on Himeyuka & Rozione’s Story (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Hirari (Okazu)
Sophie Stevens on vol. 5 of Kimi ni Todoke (Animanga Nation)
Erica Friedman on Nobara no Mori no Otome-tachi (Okazu)
Sesho on vol. 1 of Omamori Himari (Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews)
Connie on vols. 6 and 7 of Pet Shop of Horrors (Slightly Biased Manga)
Shannon Fay on Pet Shop of Horrors (Kuriousity)
animemiz on Project X: Challengers: 7-11 (Anime Diet)
Connie on vol. 1 of Rampage (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 5 of Rasetsu (I Reads You)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 4 of Rin-ne (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Oyceter on vols. 6-9 of Sand Chronicles (Sakura of DOOM)
Carlo Santos on vol. 27 of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (ANN)
Kristin on The Vampire Knight Official Fanbook (Comic Attack)
Connie on vol. 6 of With the Light (Slightly Biased Manga)
Snow Wildsmith on Works (Graphic Novel Reporter)

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Comments

  1. First time here, and I can only say that I reeeally like your posts! Thanks for the info!

  2. Thank you! ^_^ I feel so old. ;_; Wait… I am. XD

  3. That’s OK—I bet you’re not as old as me! :)