Manga reviews update

Posted on February 15, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

I left Borders staggering under a load of manga yesterday, so expect some quickie reviews later in the week. In the meantime, here’s what some other folks are reading. Jarred Pine at Anime on DVD reviews the first volume of Reiko the Zombie Shop and finds it interesting but overly violent.

And at Dave Ex Machina, Dave got snowed in on Sunday and spent the day reading manga. He admits

Since I’m not interested in boys trying to be the ultimate ninja robot fighter, wispy men oddly attracted to each other, teen-age romance, and wacky “Oh no! When I kiss you, you turn into one of 17 origami figures!” antics, it’s tough for me to find manga I dig.

Nonetheless he has a few nice things to say about Hikaru No Go, a series I’m just starting. (Thanks to Tangognat for pointing me in Dave’s direction.)

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 Manga reviews update

  1. Shawn Fumo says:
    February 15, 2006 at 12:54 pm

    Woo! Go Hikaru no Go! :) I’m kind of biased since I was in chess club for a while at school, but I really do like what I’ve read of that series.

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