Good morning, and happy new year!
At Kuriousity, Lissa Pattillo lists her favorite manga of 2010—and the ones that didn’t thrill her so much. Melinda Beasi picks her favorites at Manga Bookshelf, and Kris posts her list at Manic About Manga.
Matt Blind posts the list of new manga due out this week, as well as last week’s releases, at Rocket Bomber, where he has also been catching up on his online sales charts for the past few months.
Tokyopop shared some cover art from an upcoming issue of Priest: Purgatory, which bridges the gap between the Priest manhwa and the movie, at Robot 6.
Manga Bookshelf is now three times as awesome, as Kate Dacey (The Manga Critic) and David Welsh (The Manga Curmudgeon) join Melinda Beasi on the same page. You can still find them both at their own blogs as well, where Kate extols Gun Blaze West as “the best manga you’re not reading.”
GAR GAR Stegosaurus has an interesting post on the failure of light novels to get any traction in the U.S.
Also, these are off topic, but at Robot 6 I posted my best graphic novels of the year list and did a survey of the year in digital comics, and at my personal blog, I wrote reminiscences of books that made me laugh and shiver in terror when I was a kid.
News from Japan: Full Metal Panic! manga-ka Shoji Gatoh has several new projects in the works, and Silent Möbius creator Kia Asamiya has a new manga, Himegami Gadget, running on the Flex Comic Next website.
Reviews: Michelle Smith takes a look at a healthy handful of sports manga at Soliloquy in Blue.
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 1 of AX: Alternative Manga (Comics Worth Reading)
Animemiz on vols. 1 and 2 of Bakuman (Anime Diet)
Alex Hoffman on vols. 1 and 2 of Bakuman (Comics Village)
Todd Douglass on vol. 7 of Bamboo Blade (Anime Maki)
Ai Kano on vol. 2 of Gente (Animanga Nation)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 2 of Hetalia: Axis Powers (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Hana Lee on vol. 2 of Joseon Female Detective Damo (Manga Bookshelf)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 11 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Comics Worth Reading)
Anna on episode 1 of Mizuki (Manga Report)
Ash Brown on Oishinbo A La Carte (Japanese Cuisine) (Experiments in Manga)
Emily Kazanecki on vol. 4 of Rin-ne (Manga Life)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of The Secret Notes of Lady Kanoko (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 11 of Vampire Knight (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of Vanilla (I Reads You)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 11 of V.B. Rose (A Case Suitable for Treatment)