Manga Moveable Feast launches Kurosagi week

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

This month’s Manga Moveable Feast is being hosted by Philip of the Eeeper’s Choice Podcast, and he has jumped right in with an overview of the series as a whole, individual overviews of vols. 1-4 and vols. 5-8, and link roundups for Day 1 and Day 2.

The Manga Village team picks the best of the past week’s new releases.

Jason Thompson is going with a Seven Deadly Sins theme in his House of 1000 Manga column at ANN, and this week he goes with “Lust,” counting down seven sexy manga that are more perversion than porn.

Erica Friedman presents a new episode of Yuri Network News at Okazu.

Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss their favorite yaoi in their latest BL Bookrack column at Manga Bookshelf.

Also at Manga Bookshelf, Matt Blind looks at some up-and-coming manga in his latest Manga Radar feature.

And finally, Manga Bookshelf is polling its readers to see if they want a forum. Vote now or forever hold your peace.

News from Japan: According to the retailer Mangaoh, vol. 15 of Gunslinger Girl will be the last one. Manga-ka Yoshinori Kobayashi, best known for his manga defending Japan’s role in World War II, has called for Japan to abandon nuclear power, aligning himself with a movement that mostly occupies the opposite end of the political spectrum from his usual roost.

Reviews

Lori Henderson on vols. 12 and 13 of Bakuman (Manga Xanadu)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of A Devil and Her Love Song (I Reads You)
John Rose on vol. 3 of D.Gray-Man (The Fandom Post)
John on issue 14 of GEN (AnimeNation Anime News)
Laura on vol. 1 of Jiu Jiu (Heart of Manga)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kazoku (Stop, Drop, and Read)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 20 of Kaze Hikaru (The Comic Book Bin)
Ash Brown on vol. 1 of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Experiments in Manga)
Anna on vol. 8 of Library Wars: Love and War (Manga Report)
AstroNerdBoy on vols. 7 and 8 of Rin-ne (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 6 of Sailor Moon (Blogcritics)
TSOTE on The Three-Eyed One (Three Steps Over Japan)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 11 of Toriko (Kuriousity)
Jocelyne Allen on vol. 1 of Wet Moon (Brain Vs Book)
Linda on Wolf (Anime Diet)

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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One Response to Manga Moveable Feast launches Kurosagi week

  1. Ben Applegate says:
    August 29, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    Anti-nuclear is not exactly a leftist stance anymore in Japan. Advocates for nuclear power are very few and far between. Plus IIRC Kobayashi is an ex-leftist anyway… though I may be thinking of Fujioka Nobukatsu.

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