Bishonen and ANTI-BISHONEN

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

Sean Gaffney looks over next week’s bumper crop of new manga.

Also, ANN has the list of new additions to JManga for the next week or so, including some more one-volume romance manga.

Jason Thompson calls Path of the Assassin “the anti-bishonen manga.” Actually, he calls it “THE ANTI-BISHONEN MANGA.” Find out why in his latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

Molly McIsaac counts down the top ten gay manga at iFanboy. Whatever you may think of her list, it seems odd that so many people bothered to comment that they don’t like manga. Guys, that’s so 2004!

At Blog of the North Star, Milo is really enjoying Toriko, all the more so because he’s getting it for $3.99 a volume during Viz’s digital sale.

Reviews

Laura on Alice in the Country of Hearts (Heart of Manga)
Anna on vol. 5 of Dawn of the Arcana (Manga Report)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 3 of Love Hina (omnibus edition)
TSOTE on Noble Farmer (Three Steps Over Japan)
Lexie on vol. 1 of Polterguys (Poisoned Rationality)
Kristin on vol. 3 of Wandering Son (Comic Attack)

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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