I took a look at the past week’s new releases at MTV Geek, and Lissa Pattillo covered them in her On the Shelf column for Otaku USA as well. Meanwhile, Sean Gaffney looks forward to this week’s new manga.
Erica Friedman has another installment of Yuri Network News at Okazu.
Jocelyne Allen celebrated yaoi day (8/01) by running a 2010 interview with est em, the creator of Seduce Me After the Show and Red Blinds the Foolish. And she follows that up with a review of Gad Sfortunato, a yaoi title by Natsume Ono (writing under her pen name, basso) that has yet to make it into English.
And as a service to her fujoshi readers, Kimi-Chan posts a list of free BL manga and webcomics. Khursten Santos also runs a list of recommended yaoi webcomics, and she shines the spotlight on est em as well.
At Heart of Manga, Laura posts the list of new shoujo titles for August.
Matt Blind’s best-seller lists are gaining on us: His latest is the best-selling manga (online sales) for the week ending July 15.
Takamasa Sakurai noticed more Japanese people than ever at the most recent Japan Expo in Paris, which is a good thing:
Meanwhile, overseas events provide Japanese guests with an opportunity to communicate with each other. In Japan, they part as soon as they finish work. But overseas, they have plenty of time to speak to each other. They can meet for dinner or go out together after events. It’s rare in Japan for artists and staff from various genres to get together, but outside Japan, they’re “Team Japan.” By sharing similar experiences, they can build friendships.
News from Japan: Crunchyroll has some photos of the National High School Manga Championship. You knew there had to be one.
Reviews
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of Awkward Silence (I Reads You)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vols. 11 and 12 of Bakuman (Comics Worth Reading)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Cactus’s Secret (Blogcritics)
Connie on Cigarette Kisses (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate Dacey on vols. 3-5 of Dawn of the Arcana (The Manga Critic)
Connie on vol. 1 of Dousei Ai (Slightly Biased Manga)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 19 of Fairy Tail (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Jiu Jiu (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Connie on est em’s Kine In! (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kimi-Chan on Love Soul (The Kimi-Chan Experience)
Erica Friedman on vol. 8 of Lucky Star (Okazu)
Connie on vol. 2 of Scent of Apple Blossoms (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 23 of Slam Dunk (I Reads You)