Lissa Pattillo takes a look at this week’s new releases in her latest On the Shelf column at Otaku USA, and back at Kuriousity she comments on a weird discrepancy that bedevils those of us who do new-release posts: The dates given by Previews and ComicList often don’t match the release dates on the publishers’ websites. My own attitude toward this is pragmatic: The release date is the date you can get it in any channel. If Sailor Moon is out in bookstores or available online, I’m not going to wait two weeks to buy it in a comics store.
Meanwhile, Sean Gaffney is looking at next week’s new manga.
The Manga Moveable Feast continues this week with more posts on Natsume Ono, and Alex Hoffman gathers them up on the MMF archive page at Manga Widget.
Reviews
Anna on vols. 7 and 8 of Arata: The Legend (Manga Report)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 5 of Cross Game (The Comic Book Bin)
Ash Brown on vol. 1 of House of Five Leaves (Experiments in Manga)
Lori Henderson on vols. 1 and 2 of House of Five Leaves (Manga Xanadu)
David Welsh on not simple (The Manga Curmudgeon)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 8 of Seiho Boys’ High School (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Dave Ferraro on Stargazing Dog (Comics-and-More)