MangaBlog

At PWCW, Kai-Ming Cha reviews the year in manga news and lists her picks for 2010.

Kristin takes a look at the manga in the January Previews at Comic Attack.

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber posts her manga- and blog-related resolutions for 2011 at All About Manga.

The latest edition of David Welsh’s seinen alphabet is brought to you by the letter W.

News from Korea: Hana Lee posts the winners of the Reader Awards at Manhwa Bookshelf.

Reviews: Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss some recent releases in their latest Off the Shelf column at Manga Bookshelf.

Snow Wildsmith on vols. 1 and 2 of Alice the 101st (Good Comics for Kids)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 6 of Aria (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Connie on vol. 8 of Blade of the Immortal (Slightly Biased Manga)
Michael C. Lorah on vol. 1 of Cross Game (Blog@Newsarama)
Shannon Fay on vol. 4 of Crown of Love (Kuriousity)
Lori Henderson on vol. 12 of Dr. Slump and vol. 5 of O-Parts Hunter (Manga Xanadu)
Julie Opipari on vol. 13 of Gantz (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Julie Opipari on Higurashi When They Cry: Beyond Midnight Arc, vol. 2 (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Erica Friedman on Kono Kutsu Shirimasenka? (Okazu)
Richard Bruton on Korea as Viewed by 12 Creators (Forbidden Planet)
Connie on Mistress Fortune (Slightly Biased Manga)
Alex Hoffman on vols. 1-3 of Peepo Choo (Manga Widget)
Lori Henderson on the January issue of Shonen Jump (Manga Xanadu)
Julie Opipari on vol. 31 of Vagabond (Mania.com)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 16 of xxxHolic (The Comic Book Bin)
Lori Henderson on vols. 5 and 6 of With the Light (Comics Village)

Deb Aoki peers into her crystal ball to find the most noteworthy new manga of the coming year.

David Welsh looks at this week’s new manga and lets the readers vote on which of three uninspiring manga he should choose from the latest Previews. And the newly enlarged Manga Bookshelf crowd make their picks of the week.

Melinda Beasi brings us up to date on all things Korean in her latest Manhwa Monday post at Manga Bookshelf.

Skip the marketing surveys: David Hampton explains how he chooses and reads manga at All About Manga, and it’s an interesting and witty read—be sure to check out his chart showing the manga consumption of different types of readers.

What do manga creator Queenie Chan (The Dreaming, Odd Thomas) and Wikileaks founder Julien Assange? Both made the Queensland, Australia, Courier-Mail’s list of people to watch out for in 2011.

Brent Newhall gives Toriko the full-on treatment in this video parodying manga analyses.

Viz has redesigned their website! Unfortunately, when I checked it this morning, virtually all the page links were broken. Lissa Pattillo noticed this too, and she critiques the design and workability of the new site at Kuriousity.

News from Japan: Ken Akamatsu says he is working with Google to develop a comics reader for his free manga website J-Comi; the reader would allow advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on the user’s location and interests.

Reviews: Ash Brown looks back at a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Aion and vol. 1 of Itsuwaribito (The Manga Critic)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 6 of Happy Cafe (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kiss (Stop, Drop, and Read)
Bill Sherman on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kiss (Seattle PI)
Zack Davisson on vol. 2 of Neko Ramen (Manga Life)
Kristin on vol. 15 of Ouran High School Host Club and vol. 5 of Natsume’s Book of Friends (Comic Attack)
Connie on vol. 9 of Real (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 1 of Real Lies (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 13 of Slam Dunk (The Comic Book Bin)
Todd Douglass on vol. 13 of Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning (Anime Maki)
Emily on Tsuuugaku Densha (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Blog)

Good morning, and happy new year!

At Kuriousity, Lissa Pattillo lists her favorite manga of 2010—and the ones that didn’t thrill her so much. Melinda Beasi picks her favorites at Manga Bookshelf, and Kris posts her list at Manic About Manga.

Matt Blind posts the list of new manga due out this week, as well as last week’s releases, at Rocket Bomber, where he has also been catching up on his online sales charts for the past few months.

Tokyopop shared some cover art from an upcoming issue of Priest: Purgatory, which bridges the gap between the Priest manhwa and the movie, at Robot 6.

Manga Bookshelf is now three times as awesome, as Kate Dacey (The Manga Critic) and David Welsh (The Manga Curmudgeon) join Melinda Beasi on the same page. You can still find them both at their own blogs as well, where Kate extols Gun Blaze West as “the best manga you’re not reading.”

GAR GAR Stegosaurus has an interesting post on the failure of light novels to get any traction in the U.S.

Also, these are off topic, but at Robot 6 I posted my best graphic novels of the year list and did a survey of the year in digital comics, and at my personal blog, I wrote reminiscences of books that made me laugh and shiver in terror when I was a kid.

News from Japan: Full Metal Panic! manga-ka Shoji Gatoh has several new projects in the works, and Silent Möbius creator Kia Asamiya has a new manga, Himegami Gadget, running on the Flex Comic Next website.

Reviews: Michelle Smith takes a look at a healthy handful of sports manga at Soliloquy in Blue.

Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 1 of AX: Alternative Manga (Comics Worth Reading)
Animemiz on vols. 1 and 2 of Bakuman (Anime Diet)
Alex Hoffman on vols. 1 and 2 of Bakuman (Comics Village)
Todd Douglass on vol. 7 of Bamboo Blade (Anime Maki)
Ai Kano on vol. 2 of Gente (Animanga Nation)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 2 of Hetalia: Axis Powers (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Hana Lee on vol. 2 of Joseon Female Detective Damo (Manga Bookshelf)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 11 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Comics Worth Reading)
Anna on episode 1 of Mizuki (Manga Report)
Ash Brown on Oishinbo A La Carte (Japanese Cuisine) (Experiments in Manga)
Emily Kazanecki on vol. 4 of Rin-ne (Manga Life)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of The Secret Notes of Lady Kanoko (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 11 of Vampire Knight (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of Vanilla (I Reads You)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 11 of V.B. Rose (A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Deb Aoki rounds up the best manga of 2010 lists from many bloggers in one handy post at About.com. Animemiz lists her picks for the best manga of the year at Anime Diet.

Sean Gaffney looks at the new manga coming at us in the first week of the new year.

Lori Henderson posts her list of this week’s new all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids.

Jason Thompson takes a look at Video Girl Ai in his latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

Alethea and Athena Nibley look back at the year in manga from a translator’s point of view, including the title they translated for CMX that was never even released.

David Welsh reaches the letter V in his seinen alphabet and picks the manga he’s most looking forward to next year. And his latest license request: Something from LaLaDX, please!

Lissa Pattillo picks up on some new offerings at Digital’s eManga site.

Johanna Draper Carlson notes some concerns about Square Enix’s new online manga store.

Kate Dacey notes that Viz is adding more manga to their iPad app.

Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss some new manga and ongoing series in their latest Off the Shelf column at Manga Bookshelf. Melinda also shares her new year’s resolution to read three series in 2011.

News from Japan: Dan Kanemitsu has a comprehensive editorial up at ANN giving the history of Tokyo’s “nonexistent youth” bill as well as an account of the underlying politics and the implications for the future. Saiyuki manga-ka Kazuya Minekura recently had surgery to remove a non-cancerous growth from her jaw; doctors removed part of her face and will replace it with prosthetics. The manga remains on hiatus. Meanwhile, ANN has the latest Japanese comics rankings.

Reviews

Kristin on vol. 12 of 20th Century Boys (Comic Attack)
J. Caleb Mozzocco on vol. 1 of Aion and vol. 1 of The Secret Notes of Lady Kanoko (Blog@Newsarama)
Anne Ishii on vol. 4 of Billy Bat (The Comics Journal)
Connie on vol. 33 of Bleach (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vols. 9 and 10 of B.O.D.Y. (Slightly Biased Manga)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 5 of Butterflies, Flowers (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Connie on vol. 4 of Children of the Sea (Slightly Biased Manga)
Todd Douglass on vol. 1 of Death Note (Black Edition) (Anime Maki)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 3 of Dengeki Daisy (The Comic Book Bin)
Connie on vol. 4 of Dogs (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 4 of Evil’s Return (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of Grand Guignol Orchestra and vol. 1 of March Story (Manga Xanadu)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of I Am Here (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Connie on vol. 9 of I Hate You More Than Anyone (Slightly Biased Manga)
Brent Newhall on vols. 1-3 of Imadoki! (Otaku, No Video)
Kristin on vol. 1 of Itsuwaribito (Comic Attack)
Brenda Gregson on vol. 6 of Kimi Ni Todoke: From Me To You (Animanga Nation)
Katherine Farmar on vol. 1 of Kizuna (Comics Village)
Connie on vol. 22 of Knights of the Zodiac (Slightly Biased Manga)
Ed Sizemore on vols. 2 and 3 of Peepo Choo (Comics Worth Reading)
James Fleenor on vol. 1 of The Qwaser of Stigmata (Anime Sentinel)
Connie on vol. 28 of Tsubasa (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 6 of Very! Very! Sweet (Slightly Biased Manga)
Snow Wildsmith on Wild @ Heart (Good Comics for Kids)

Ed Sizemore and Johanna Draper Carlson discuss the manga year in review at the Manga Out Loud podcast.

David Welsh, Brad Rice, and Johanna Draper Carlson take a look at this week’s new releases, and Johanna also posts her list of the best manga of 2010.

Meanwhile, Lori Henderson names her best manga of the year at Manga Xanadu and Kristin makes her selections at Comic Attack.

Kelakagandy takes a look at some one-shot manga worth checking out in 2011.

Melinda Beasi takes a look at the latest manhwa news in her Manhwa Monday post at Manga Bookshelf. And she reveals her pick of the week as well.

At Robot 6, I take a look at someone who is putting bootleg manga on the Kindle—which of course is egregiously wrong—and what they are doing right.

News from Japan: Minami Ozaki is preparing a two-part side story to Bronze: Zetsuai Since 1989.

Reviews: Ash Brown looks at a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Rob McMonigal on All My Darling Daughters (Panel Patter)
Michelle Smith on vol. 4 of Chi’s Sweet Home (Soliloquy in Blue)
Connie on vol. 3 of Evil’s Return (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on Family Complex (I Reads You)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 2 of Gente (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Connie on vol. 6 of Hayate x Blade (Slightly Biased Manga)
Katherine Dacey on vol. 1 of Highschool of the Dead (The Manga Critic)
Julie Opipari on vol. 17 of Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Michelle Smith on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kiss (Soliloquy in Blue)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 1 of Kobato (Panel Patter)
Alex Hoffman on vol. 5 of Nabari No Ou (Manga Widget)
Shannon Fay on No Touching At All (Kuriousity)
Connie on vol. 12 of Slam Dunk (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 26 of Tsubasa (Slightly Biased Manga)
Erica Friedman on vol. 8 of Tsubomi (Okazu)
Connie on vol. 4 of Very! Very! Sweet (Slightly Biased Manga)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 9 of Yotsuba&! (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)

Kate Dacey reads bad manga so you don’t have to, and she posts the worst of the year in her 2010 Manga Hall of Shame post at the Manga Critic. Erica Friedman takes a walk on the sunny side of the street with her list of the top ten yuri items (manga, anime, people) of 2010 at Okazu. Dave Ferraro rounds out the year with his list of the ten best manga of 2010 at Comics-and-More.

Kelakagandy takes a look at omnibus volumes we can look forward to in 2011.

Erica Friedman rounds up the latest yuri happenings in this week’s edition of Yuri Network News.

Lori Henderson has the past week’s new all-ages manga and comics, along with her picks, at Good Comics for Kids.

The sci-fi magazine SF Signal asked a number of people to recommend their favorite genre-related books, movies, or shows, and if you scroll down this page, you’ll find Ed Sizemore’s five manga picks.

Digital Manga going with an online-only release (for now, at least) of the classic shoujo manga Mizuki, by Wedding Peach creator Nao Yazawa.

David Welsh’s latest license request is Cooking Papa, a long-running manga that sounds like it might be about cannibals but is actually about a family in which the father does all the cooking.

At The Hooded Utilitarian, Ng Suat Tong looks at the late manga-ka Hinako Sugiura, whose work is unlikely to be published in English anytime soon.

ASCII Media Works launched an online comic magazine, Dengeki Comic Japan, last week, and they say an English-language version is on the way.

News from Japan: A group of creators are putting together a doujinshi mocking the latest amendment to the Tokyo Youth Healthy Development Ordinance. A new chapter of Cyborg 009, the first in 18 years, has been posted on Club Sunday, the Japanese website for Shonen Sunday; the script is by anime writer Ryota Yamaguchi. And Ooikiku Furikabutte (Big Windup) is going on hiatus for a year.

Reviews: Ash Brown posts some short takes on recent library reads at Experiments in Manga.

Charles Webb on vol. 2 of 7 Billion Needles (Manga Life)
Ben Huber on Ayako (Japanator)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 7 of Bamboo Blade (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Connie on vol. 32 of Bleach (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lexie on Can’t Lose You (Poisoned Rationality)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 1 of Cat Paradise (Panel Patter)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 4 of Children of the Sea (The Comic Book Bin)
Kyla Hunt on vol. 1 of Chi’s Sweet Home (Graphic Novel Reporter)
A Library Girl on vol. 1 of The Dark Hunters (A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 2 of I’ll Give It My All… Tomorrow (The Comic Book Bin)
Rob McMonigal on Red: A Haida Manga (Panel Patter)
Anna on vols. 6 and 7 of Silver Diamond (Manga Report)
Michelle Smith on vol. 1 of The Stellar Six of Gingacho (Soliloquy in Blue)
Ed Sizemore on vols. 6-8 of Sundome (Comics Worth Reading)
Connie on vol. 25 of Tsubasa (Slightly Biased Manga)
James Fleenor on vols. 1 and 2 of Vermonia (Anime Sentinel)
Nicola on vols. 1-3 of Vermonia (Back to Books)
Carlo Santos on vol. 9 of Yotsuba&! (ANN)