Molly McIsaac starts us off with the first Best Manga of the Year list of the year (at least, it’s the first I have seen) at iFanboy.com. (Via The Manga Critic.) Meanwhile, the Manga Village crowd pick the best of the past week’s new releases. At Good Comics for Kids, Lori Henderson posts this week’s all-ages comics and manga.
Lori Henderson gives us the week’s manga news in one handy post at Manga Xanadu, and Erica Friedman does the same for the world of yuri in her latest Yuri Network News at Okazu.
Sean Gaffney’s latest license request is Medaka Box, a Weekly Shonen Jump series that is written by NisiOisiN. Sean explains why that’s important:
NisiOisiN is a pen name for one of the more famous young Japanese novel writers at the moment, creator of several series such as Bakemonogatori (which spawned an anime) and Zaregoto (which Del Rey released two volumes of). He is very famous for, pardon the expression, screwing with his reader’s heads, as well as his character and plot twists, where you feel the immediate urge to go back and re-read everything with your newly gained perspective.
Melinda Beasi lists four of her favorite reviewers in her Follow Friday column at Manga Bookshelf.
Daniella Orihuela-Gruber thinks the manga industry could do a better job of marketing to the casual fans, the ones who don’t spend all their time on blogs like this one; more in-book ads would be a good start, she says.
David Welsh asks, the readers answer: Which manga and graphic novels do you feel guilty about not reading? Also: What would you like to see the Japanese publishers do with their new web portal?
Erica Friedman writes about the Japanese manga magazine Monthly Shounen Ace, home of Haruhi, Deadman Wonderland, and Neon Genesis Evangelion, at MangaCast.
Astrange takes a look at a textbook doujinshi at welcome datacomp.
Reviews: Deb Aoki takes us through this week’s reading with 10 mini manga reviews at About.com.
Greg McElhatton on vol. 1 of Ax (Read About Comics)
Michelle Smith on vols. 1-10 of Blame! (Soliloquy in Blue)
Katherine Farmar on The Dawn of Love (Comics Village)
Connie on vol. 6 of Future Diary (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 1 of Genkaku Picasso (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douressaux on vol. 1 of Genkaku Picasso (The Comic Book Bin)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Hayate x Blade (omnibus edition) (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vols. 7-9 of Hell Girl (omnibus edition) (I Reads You)
Shannon Fay on vol. 21 of Hikaru No Go (Kuriousity)
Johanna Draper Carlson on How to Draw Shoujo Manga (Comics Worth Reading)
Todd Douglass on vol. 3 of Ichiroh! (Anime Maki)
Victoria Martin on vol. 1 of March Story (Manga Life)
Oyceter on vols. 7 and 8 of Pluto (Sakura of DOOM)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 9 of Real (The Comic Book Bin)
Erica Friedman on Sukoyaka Paradigm Shift (Okazu)
Ash Brown on Tenken (Experiments in Manga)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 4 of Twin Spica (Comics Worth Reading)
Anna on vols. 8-10 of V.B. Rose (Manga Report)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 16 of XXXHolic (Kuriousity)
Erica Friedman on vols. 8-10 of Zombie-Loan (Okazu)
Hi Brigid! Thanks for the link as always. I don’t really want MORE in-book ads, but BETTER in-book ads. They could definitely be more effective than they are now.