More of everything

In his latest Flipped column, David Welsh suggest some New Year’s resolutions for the manga industry. Most of them boil down to more variety—more classics, more anthologies, more adult manga. I agree. Having read many, many books about the angst of middle-schoolers, I’m ready for a bit of variety. Jog’s review of an anthology of business manga piqued my interest, as did the re-release last year of Four Shoujo Stories (translated by manga prof Matt Thorn). I’d especially like to see some of the more specialized titles, like business or fishing manga. And I’d really like to see them at my local bookstores, which seem to carry a lot of the standard-format Tokyopop and Viz offerings and very little of anything else.