First, a quick note: Someone is copying this blog and reposting it without my permission, so if you are not reading this at www.mangablog.net, please click over there and stop giving this copyright infringer the web traffic.
Sean Gaffney takes a look at next week’s new manga, a list that seems to be dominated by Viz. Lori Henderson has the list of this week’s all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids.
Here’s something different: At comiXology, Jason Thompson looks at ComicLoud, an indy manga anthology magazine available on Kindle. It’s a very mixed bag, as anthologies tend to be, ranging from a decent auto-racing manga to bad sexy romantic comedy, with a bit of Shintaro Kago thrown in for good measure.
Meanwhile, at ANN, Jason returns to writing about comics on paper with a look at the vintage series Crying Freeman for his latest House of 1000 Manga column.
At the Tokyopop site, TPHenshu discusses the business side of manga and why series go on hiatus. There are some interesting nuggets there, including the fact that online retailers account for only a fraction of manga sales. (Via All About Manga, which has a new online home—reset your bookmarks and RSS feeds!)
Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss Osamu Tezuka’s Ayako in their latest Off the Shelf column. And Melinda looks at three of her favorite Kodansha series that are published by Vertical.
David Welsh’s latest license request is Rough, from the creator of Cross Game.
News from Japan: New Emissary has an short article on Thai artist Wisut Ponnimit, one of the few non-Japanese artists to succeed in the Japanese manga industry.
Reviews
Omar on vols. 1 and 2 of AiON, vol. 13 of Black Jack, and vol. 1 of Lives (About Heroes)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Blue Friend (Okazu)
Richard Bruton on Dragon Heir Reborn (The Forbidden Planet Blog)
Kristin on vol. 1 of Gunslinger Girl (omnibus edition) (Comic Attack)
Sean Gaffney on vols. 5 and 6 of Higurashi: When They Cry (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Emily Kazanecki on vol. 7 of Kimi ni Todoke (Manga Life)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 4 of Library Wars (The Comic Book Bin)
Snow Wildsmith on Panda Man to the Rescue and Panda Man and the Treasure Hunt (Good Comics for Kids)
Shannon Fay on vol. 2 of Right Here, Right Now (Kuriousity)
Ash Brown on vol. 1 of Saturn Apartments (Experiments in Manga)
Lori Henderson on the March issue of Shonen Jump (Manga Xanadu)
Anna on vol. 1 of X-Men: Misfits (Manga Report)
Wow, I’m sorry to hear someone is doing the copy and paste dance with you. We’ve had similar problems with our site and it’s a bunch of BS. I hope it gets rectified for you soon.
Anyway, thanks for all the mentions!
I think it is a bot doing the grab and post because the evil stealer in question leaves your warning intact.
I too have had some problems with these kinds of automated article grabbing blogs in the past. Two of mine were with Blogger and they got shut down. One was on some porn-filled site, I guess because the taken article was about the Japanese artificial women.