Manga for June 21

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

From ComicList, here’s what to expect in your local comic store this week.

ANIME WORKS PUBLICATIONS
Eiken Vol 4, $9.99

BARBOUR PUBLISHING INC
Serenity Vol 3 Basket Case, $7.97
Serenity Vol 4 Rave N Rant, $7.97
Serenity Vol 5 Snow Biz, $7.97

DARK HORSE COMICS
Octopus Girl Vol 2, $12.95

DC/CMX
Land Of The Blindfolded Vol 8, $9.99
Megatokyo Vol 4, $9.99
Moon Child Vol 3, $9.99

ONI PRESS INC.
Love As A Foreign Language #5, $5.95

TOHAN CORPORATION
Fullmetal Alchemist Art Book Vol 3, $24.99
Hitomi No 10 Figure No Gunzo Part 2, $55.99
Hobby Japan Jun 2006, $12.99
Hyper Hobby May 2006, $16.99
Kingdom Hearts Ultimania Intro To Kingdom Hearts II T, $24.99
Megami Magazine Deluxe Vol 5, $18.99
Megami May 2006, $14.99
Naruto Movie Jump C Vol 1, $12.99
Naruto Movie Jump C Vol 2, $12.99
Newtype May 2006, $10.99
One Piece Color Walk 3 SC, $27.99
Shigeru Komatsuzaki World, $35.99
Shuffle On The Stage Oficial Visual Guide, $35.99
Yamada Akihiro Fantasy Art Works, $55.99

VIZ MEDIA LLC
Fullmetal Alchemist Profiles, $14.99
Golgo 13 Vol 3, $9.99
Hana Kimi Vol 12, $9.99
Hot Gimmick Vol 11, $9.99
Inu Yasha Ani Manga Vol 15, $11.99
Naoki Urasawas Monster Vol 3, $9.99
Shojo Beat July 06 Vol 2 #7, $5.99
Vagabond Vol 21, $9.95
Zatch Bell Vol 7, $9.99

I’m including the Tohan listings because they look like art books that would be of interest to manga readers. My daughters love these when they show up at our bookstores, and have been known to do extra chores so they can save up enough to buy them.

This week brings vol. 11 of Hot Gimmick, the manga smart women love to hate. The series wraps up with vol. 12 in September. Volume 3 of Monster is worthy of note, of course, although I bought it two weeks ago at Borders. That sort of practice is not going to endear manga to the proprietors of comics stores.

(I just went on the Viz website to check these links, and I noticed their featured “new release” is vol. 6 of Fullmetal Alchemist, which came out in March. Helloooo! Viz website people! Anybody home?)

Also notable this week is vol. 4 of Megatokyo, the first to be published since they moved to CMX. It will be interesting to see how this volume matches up with the previous three.

At MangaCast, Ed gives his take on the list.

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 for June 21

  1. Ash says:
    June 21, 2006 at 6:06 pm

    Relating to manga in book stores, I saw Hot Gimmick vol.11 at Borders the first week of June. By street date, the manga was released on June 20th. In the past, I’ve seen many various volumes of Fruits Basket and other misc titles appearing as early as a month ahead before their release dates in Borders. But I’m just pointing this out, as oppossed to making any attacks, because I love to read my manga asap too.

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