Just in time for shopping season, my Manga Gift Guide is up at MTV Geek, and if you’re looking for a good read for the long weekend, check out my picks from this week’s new manga.

Seven Seas has been busy lately, and Sean Gaffney takes a look at the new licenses they announced last month, while Lissa Pattillo comments on their decision to release some stories in omnibus format.

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber asks the readers: What’s your favorite sci fi/fantasy manga?

Reviews: Carlo Santos rounds up a stack of recent releases in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN.

Kristin on vols. 1 and 2 of Asch the Bloody (Comic Attack)
Anna on vols. 1 and 2 of Basara (Manga Report)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 2 of Chobits (Blogcritics)
Danica Davidson on vol. 1 of Daniel X (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 3 of Grand Guignol Orchestra (ANN)
Kristin on vol. 3 of Gunslinger Girl (omnibus edition)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 13 of Higurashi: When They Cry (ANN)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 3 of Oresama Teacher (ANN)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 12 of Pokemon Adventures (Blogcritics)
Rebecca Silverman on vols. 1 and 2 of Pokemon: Black and White (ANN)
Brigid Alverson on vol. 1 of Psyren (MTV Geek)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Pumpkin Scissors (Blogcritics)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 5 of Ranma 1/2 (Blogcritics)
Carlo Santos on vol. 4 of Saturn Apartments (ANN)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 8 of Seiho Boys’ High School (ANN)
Lori Henderson on vols. 7-8 of With the Light (Manga Village)
John Hogan on A Zoo in Winter (Graphic Novel Reporter)

Guest writer Shaenon Garrity celebrates Chobits in the latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

David Welsh takes a look at this week’s new manga, and he teams up with his fellow Manga Bookshelf bloggers to discuss their pick of the week. Meanwhile, the Manga Village team is busy sorting through the past week’s new releases.

Erica Friedman has the latest Yuri Network News at Okazu.

Alex Hoffman posts links to more writing about Natsume Ono on the day 4 archive and the end-of-the-week page, along with a few final links, at Manga Widget. And Ono is the topic of discussion for the new, revamped Manga Out Loud podcast as well.

Connie puts the spotlight on manga artist Senno Knife at Slightly Biased Manga.

Erica Friedman takes a look at Kiss Magazine and Matt Blind breaks out another list of manga best-sellers, these ones from earlier this month, at Manga Bookshelf.

Here’s a funny bit from Matt Thorn’s blog: Kitty-chan tells all.

Reviews: Ash Brown takes us through a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga. The Manga Bookshelf bloggers keep it short and to the point in their latest set of Bookshelf Briefs.

Sean Gaffney on vol. 3 of Ai Ore (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 5 of Arisa (Kuriousity)
Connie on Attacked on a Tiger’s Whim (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 35 of Berserk (Slightly Biased Manga)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 2 of A Bride’s Story (Comics Worth Reading)
Erica Friedman on the November issue of Comic Yuri Hime (Okazu)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Dawn of the Arcana (The Manga Critic)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 21 of D.Gray-Man (The Comic Book Bin)
Connie on vol. 3 of House of Five Leaves (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 4 of I’ll Give It My All… Tomorrow (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 6 of Kamisama Kiss (Slightly Biased Manga)
Dave Ferraro on Kekkaishi (Comics-and-More)
Sweetpea616 on Land of the Blindfolded (Organization Anti-Social Geniuses)
Kristin on vols. 7 and 8 of Maoh: Juvenile Remix (Comic Attack)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 4 of The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-Chan (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on Men of Tattoos (The Comic Book Bin)
TSOTE on vol. 2 of Murder Princess (Three Steps Over Japan)
Lori Henderson on vols. 46-50 of One Piece (Manga Xanadu)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 19 of Please Save My Earth (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 4 of Pokemon Black & White (Kuriousity)
Connie on Prime Minister’s Secret Diplomacy (Slightly Biased Manga)
Chris Kirby on vol. 1 of Princess Knight (The Fandom Post)
Connie on RA-I (Slightly Biased Manga)
Johanna Draper Carlson on Tesoro (Comics Worth Reading)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 7 of Rin-ne (Kuriousity)
Ken Haley on vol. 1 of Sailor Moon (Sequential Ink)
Julie Opipari on vol. 5 of Stepping on Roses (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Sean Gaffney on Tesoro (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Kimi-Chan on Unlocking Emotional Bonds (The Kimi-Chan Experience)
Kate O’Neil on vol. 13 of We Were There (The Fandom Post)
Dave Ferraro on A Zoo in Winter (Comics-and-More)

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)

This week brings new volumes of Sailor Moon and Codename Sailor V and three very nice new volumes from Viz. Check out my take on this week’s new manga at MTV Geek.

Lissa Pattillo takes a look at next year’s lineup from Seven Seas, which includes several Victorian-mystery series.

At Manga Bookshelf, C.J. Thomas posts some helpful advice for getting manga on the cheap.

Reviews

Katherine Farmar on vol. 2 of Angelic Runes (Manga Village)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Chobits (Blogcritics)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 1 of Gate 7 (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Hikaru no Go (Blogcritics)
Kristin on not simple (Comic Attack)
Dave Ferraro on Princess Knight (Comics-and-More)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 4 of Saturn Apartments (The Comic Book Bin)
Kristin on Tesoro (Comic Attack)
Julie Opipari on vol. 13 of Vampire Knight (Manga Maniac Cafe)

In preparation for the launch of Shonen Jump Alpha, which will lag the Japanese Shonen Jump by just two weeks, Viz is ramping up their digital releases of the six affected series, releasing new volumes of Naruto and Bleach digitally ahead of print. I discuss the Naruto changes a bit at MTV Geek, and Deb Aoki has the details on Bleach, which include skipping ahead to a new story arc, at About.com.

The Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their Pick of the Week, and the Manga Village team checks out the best of the past week’s new releases.

The Manga Moveable Feast continues at Manga Widget, where your host Alex Hoffman, rounds up all the Day One posts on Natsume Ono.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, publishers are starting to put out suggested gift guides; Lissa Pattollo runs the Viz gift guide at Kuriousity.

Three Steps Over Japan continues its look at Japanese manga magazines with a peek at Morning Tsu, a spinoff of Weekly Morning.

Reviews: It’s a new week, so the Manga Bookshelf crowd has a new set of Bookshelf Briefs for us. Ash Brown takes us through a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Erica Friedman on The Book of Human Insects (Okazu)
Ken Haley on Breathe Deeply (Sequential Ink)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of The Drops of God (Comics-and-More)
Animemiz on Gate 7 (Anime Diet)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 1 of Love Hina (omnibus edition)
David Welsh on vol. 1 of Only Serious About You (The Manga Curmudgeon)
David Welsh on Tesoro (The Manga Curmudgeon)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 10 of Twin Spica (A Case Suitable for Treatment)

I rounded up the past week’s manga news at MTV Geek, and Erica Friedman updates us on all things yuri with a new edition of Yuri Network News at Okazu. Erica also wants to be sure we know all the place to find Yuricon, her publishing company, on the web.

Digital Manga, which often finds a different way to do things, caused a bit of controversy this week with their launch of a Kickstarter drive to reprint Osamu Tezuka’s Swallowing the Earth. Lissa Pattillo and Johanna Draper Carlson discuss the pluses and minuses of this approach.

The Manga Moveable Feast gets under way this week, with Natsume Ono being the topic of this month’s discussion. Check the archive page at host blog Manga Widget for a complete list of MMF posts. Alex Hoffman starts off with an essay on The House of Five Leaves, and David Welsh adds links to some posts he has written on Ono at The Manga Curmudgeon.

Matt Seneca interviews Yuichi Yokoyama, the creator of Travel and Garden.

Dave Ferraro and Patrick Markfort launch manga week at Comics-and-More with a video discussion of Sailor Moon and Codename Sailor V.

Translator Tomo Kimura posts some translation notes on vol. 5 of Kamisama Kiss.

Reviews: The Manga Bookshelf bloggers review the Kodansha iOS app and a variety of manga available digitally in their latest Going Digital column. Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss a handful of recent releases in their Off the Shelf column, also at Manga Bookshelf.

Connie on vol. 1 of Black Knight (Slightly Biased Manga)
Sweetpea616 on Genshiken (Organization Anti-Social Geniuses)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 2 of Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 2 of Pokemon Adventures: Diamond and Pearl (Blogcritics)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 10 of Real (The Comic Book Bin)
Connie on vol. 1 of Shadow Lady (Slightly Biased Manga)
Rebecca Silverman on Tesoro (ANN)
Connie on vol. 13 of We Were There (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 1 of X (omnibus edition) (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of X (omnibus edition) (I Reads You)
Connie on X Zero (artbook) (Slightly Biased Manga)