Seven Seas licenses Senran Kagura, loses Blood Alone

Senran Kagura

Senran Kagura

Seven Seas confirmed a new license, Senran Kagura: Skirting Shadows, which follows the adventures of a quintet of teenage girls in a secret ninja high school.

Still catching up with manga news… Lissa Pattillo has a quick roundup in which she notes that Seven Seas will not license future volumes of Blood Alone, as the title has shifted to a new publisher, Kodansha, in Japan. Kodansha, of course, has their own American arm, Kodansha comics, although they do license to other publishers as well (and they are co-owners of Vertical).

The Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their Pick of the Week.

Reviews: Adam Stephanides posts some quick reviews of untranslated manga at Completely Futile. Ash Brown looks at a week’s worth of reading at Experiments in Manga. And it’s time for more Bookshelf Briefs at Manga Bookshelf.

Kristin on vol. 2 of 21st Century Boys (Comic Attack)
Katherine Hanson on vol. 1 of Asagao to Kase-san (Yuri no Boke)
Matthew Alexander on vol. 18 of Black God (The Fandom Post)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 4 of Bleach (Blogcritics)
L.B. Bryant on vol. 1 of Dark-Hunters: Infinity (ICv2)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 4 of A Devil and Her Love Song (Blogcritics)
John Rose on vol. 23 of Fairy Tail (The Fandom Post)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 3 of Ghost (The Comic Book Bin)
Lori Henderson on vols. 3-5 of Hero Tales (Manga Village)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 7 of Kamisama Kiss (Blogcritics)
Ken H on vol. 1 of Kikaider (Comics Should Be Good)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 2 of Neon Genesis Evangelion (omnibus edition) (I Reads You)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 66 of One Piece (The Comic Book Bin)
TSOTE on vol. 31 of QED (Three Steps Over Japan)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 27 of Slam Dunk (The Comic Book Bin)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 2 of Strobe Edge (Blogcritics)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 34 of Vagabond (I Reads You)

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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