The big news this morning is that Viz announced its spring-summer 2011 lineup, and it includes Tenjho Tenge, which will be published in new two-volume omnibus editions that are “100% faithful to the original”—unlike the bowdlerized edition published by CMX back in the day. The series will be published under Viz’s Signature imprint, and ANN catches up with Signature editor-in-chief Leyla Aker for a bit more background. But David Welsh is more excited about another one of Viz’s new titles, Natsume Ono’s La Quinta Camera.
Lori Henderson has some advice for a mom whose teen is reading scanlations online.
Melinda Beasi rounds up the latest Korean-comics news in this week’s Manhwa Monday post at Manga Bookshelf.
At Masters of Manga, Marc Bernabe takes a look at Tokiwa-sō Power!, a collection of manga by the creators who lived in the legendary Tokiwa-sō apartments, which were home to many manga-ka (including Osamu Tezuka) in the 1950s.
The next Manga Moveable Feast will feature One Piece, and if you aren’t reading it already, the prospect of a 55-volume (so far) series can be intimidating. Helpfully, David Welsh suggests some possible jumping-in points at The Manga Curmudgeon.
News from Japan: Japanator reports that the bookstore chain Kinokuniya is opening an electronic bookstore featuring both print volumes and ebooks, with about 30,000 ebooks ready to go when they launch at the end of this year. Perhaps some of those will be manga?
Reviews: Ash Brown looks at a week’s worth of reading at Experiments in Manga.
Erica Friedman on vols. 1 and 2 of Baba Yaga (Okazu)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 2 of Chobits (omnibus edition) (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime & Manga Blog)
Kate Dacey on Dragon Sword and Wind Child, vol. 1 of The Story of Saiunkoku, and vol. 1 of Summoner Girl (The Manga Critic)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 12 of Fairy Tail (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Carlo Santos on vol. 2 of Kingyo Used Books (ANN)
Caddy C. on Ouran High School Host Club (A Feminist Otaku)
Ai Kano on vol. 1 of Seiho Boys’ High School (Animanga Nation)
Kristin on vol. 3 of Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee (Comic Attack)
Great news about Ten Ten. I know some people groan because fans never forgave CMX for censoring their volumes, but that feeling of disgust was real. It would come up at conventions 6 years after they had released the series. They were never forgiven and I think in serious manga reader’s minds, CMX was never to be trusted again. They weren’t taken seriously. And we see where they are today.