DramaQueen announces the release of a new yaoi manga, Worthless Love. No info is up yet, but I like what they have done with their list of titles: The icons are color-coded by type of book and marked with little hearts to indicate what’s shipping now. Cute!
A couple of interesting items from Manganews: Captain Tsubasa stars in a commercial for Kirin Nuda, the official drink of the Japanese soccer team, new manga titles are announced for Brazil, and a Korean TV drama bears a suspicious resemblance to the manga Eden no Hana, which itself supposedly lifted scenes from Slam Dunk.
At the yuri site Okazu, Erica Friedman gives a rave review to Moonlight Flowers. Spoilers abound, but it doesn’t look like the book is translated so that should be OK for most of us.
Why do women in manga have such prominent mammary glands? Because that’s how schools teach students to draw them. This link is moderately safe for work.
Global manga watch: An article about an exhibit of Haida art and artifacts in Vancouver includes this:
The range is immense, from a 19th-century canoe to a tiny boxwood maquette by the late Bill Reid, and from a 16th-century stone mortar for grinding native tobacco to 21st-century “Haida manga” by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. “He’s been publishing in Korea and Japan and selling thousands and thousands of books,” Augaitis says. “He’s an absolute star,” adds Collison.
Before you say “That can’t be manga!” check out the artist’s home page: His work has been translated into Japanese and he’s shown in Tokyo, and he became interested in Japanese art when he saw some woodblock prints and recognized their stylistic affinity with traditional Haida art.
