The Manga Villagers peruse the best of the past week’s new manga.
David Welsh takes a look at the winners of this year’s Shogakukan Manga Awards; only Ooku: The Inner Chamber has been licensed in the U.S., but several of the creators may be familiar to English-language readers. At Manga Widget, Alex Hoffman looks at another award-winning manga, Un Chocolatier de l’Amour Perdu, which won the Manga Taishou award recently.
Erica Friedman keeps us up to date with the latest edition of Yuri Network News at Okazu.
With a slow week coming up, Melinda Beasi devotes her Manhwa Monday post to a look at the books she’s most looking forward to.
Vom Marlowe looks at the inking style of Loveless at The Hooded Utilitarian.
At Otaku, No Video, Brent Newhall has a very interesting post about the effect that the format of manga has on its style. And he points us to the source of that discussion, asiascape vistas, which he describes as “a collective blog made by otaku in academia.”
If you don’t read Japanese but you do read French, and you’re a Shintaro Kago fan, Ryan at Same Hat has some good news for you.
Paul Gravett’s book Manga: The First Sixty Years has been banned again—this time in Malta. The book was pulled from the San Bernardino County Public Library system in 2006 after a politician saw the opportunity to burnish his credentials a bit by making a big deal of some of the illustrations.
Animemiz compares the anime and manga of Kimi ni Todoke at Anime Diet.
Alex Hoffman asks: Why do you like Fumi Yoshinaga?
Reviews: Ash Brown looks back at a week’s worth of reading at Experiments in Manga.
David Welsh on vol. 1 of Arisa (The Manga Curmudgeon)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 2 of Cat Paradise (Panel Patter)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of La Corda d’Oro (Manga Xanadu)
Kate Dacey on vol. 2 of Dragon Girl and Mistress Fortune (The Manga Critic)
Emily Kazanecki on vol. 4 of Itazura Na Kiss (Manga Life)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of Itsuwaribito (Comics-and-More)
Alex Hoffman on vol. 1 of Itsuwaribito (Comics Village)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kiss (Comics Worth Reading)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 1 of Karakuri Odette (Panel Patter)
Todd Douglass on vol. 1 of Lives (Anime Maki)
Anna on Not Love But Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy (Manga Report)
Kristin on vol. 1 of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Comic Attack)
Rob McMonigal on vols. 2 and 3 of One Piece (Panel Patter)
Erica Friedman on vol. 3 of Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari (Okazu)
Lori Henderson on the February issue of Shonen Jump (Manga Xanadu)
James Fleenor on vol. 1 of Summoner Girl (Anime Sentinel)
Lori Henderson on vol. 3 of Tena on S-String (Manga Xanadu)
Erica Friedman on vol. 9 of Tsubomi (Okazu)
Greg McElhatton on vol. 5 of Twin Spica (Read About Comics)
Julie Opipari on vol. 11 of Vampire Knight (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Brett Newhall on vols. 1 and 2 of Whistle! (Otaku, No Video)
Yeah, and that genius from San Bernadino County (my home county sadly), he’s been thrown out and is up on charges of grand theft and misappropriation of funds. Yeah, we’ve got some real winners out here.