Bad manga websites

Posted on August 20, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

Both (postmodernbarney.com) and Focused Totality mention their frustrations with manga publishers’ web sites. Different ones: Dorian at postmodernbarney couldn’t find info on the newest yaoi titles on the Tokyopop website, while Mark Fossen at Focused Totality complains that the website given on the back cover of Yotsuba&!, published by ADV Manga, is wrong. In fact, Yotsuba&! wasn’t even on the site—I had the same experience and wound up linking to a fan site when I first mentioned the book. My own pet peeve is that Viz doesn’t have a search engine on their site, which makes some titles simply impossible to find without resorting to Google.
It seems that for a market as youth-oriented as manga, having a really good web presence should be a no-brainer. I’ve seen plenty of good fan and review sites; it’s the big boys who are dragging their feet.

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 Bad manga websites

  1. sai says:
    February 1, 2007 at 9:09 am

    hello

    what is this about are you sell thoes manga our do you have a website were i can find those books. can you please e-mail me back

    thank you

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