Monthly Archives: June 2006

Tony Salvaggio reviews Basilisk and Dogby Walks Alone in Calling Manga Island, and finds plenty to like about both of them. Pata tips us to the next manga innovation: lawyer manga Ed Chavez has been busy: At MangaCast, he reviews … Continue reading →

Del Rey has posted its release calendar for the rest of 2006 (pdf file). I could get all snarky about being six months late, but hey, at least they did it! Here’s a sneak peek at their new series: Not … Continue reading →

The administrator at the Princess Tutu Livejournal Community lays down the law: Princess Tutu is not magical girl shoujo. This post is actually about anime, but I think the points apply pretty well to the manga (I haven’t read this … Continue reading →

In my other life, I’m a freelance writer for North Shore Sunday, which covers the area north of Boston, all the way from Saugus up to Marblehead and points beyond. I’d like to do a story on manga and anime … Continue reading →

The Beat picks up on this conversation (which has grown since I linked to it yesterday) about yaoi on a Christian parents’ bulletin board, and notes that cooler heads seem to have prevailed. Here’s a snippet from one poster: Yaoi … Continue reading →

In this week’s Flipped, David Welsh manages to find a few manga he doesn’t like. At Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon takes a look at the Bookscan graphic novel numbers for mid-May and talks a bit about what the numbers do … Continue reading →