Audio and video

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

At MangaCast, my partner-in-podcast Jack Tse has a special Maki Side Dish up: Jack’s MangaCast Anniversary Top 10.

And Pata points us to a a set of five videos of Osamu Tezuka himself. They’re YouTube videos, so the quality is terrible, and they are in Japanese, but still, it’s a glimpse of the master at work.

A good followup is Tania del Rio’s latest column for Buzzscope. Tania puts her finger on something I have sort of noticed for a while, that Japanese manga-ka seem more reserved than their American counterparts, who are very vocal and visible on the web. Tania demonstrates her point not only with her columns and commentary (including here) but by telling us right up front that her column is late this month because she just got married. Congratulations, Tania!

Love Manga has this week’s crop of new manga. It looks like a lean week, although Berserk readers will be pleased to have a new volume. The only thing on my wish list is Recipe for Gertrude; we’ve had volume 8 of Fullmetal Alchemist for over a month, and so far I’ve managed to resist Read or Die and Case Closed.

Thinking about San Diego? David Welsh looks at the con through manga-tinted glasses and comes up with a list of events you won’t want to miss.

At Silent Seas, a blogger who teaches in Japan has an interesting conversation with her students about different perceptions of otaku and otaku culture.

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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4 Responses to Audio and video

  1. Amanda says:
    July 18, 2006 at 6:04 am

    Though my last name is Scottish, I’m actually an American. Regardless, thank you very much for the link!

  2. Brigid says:
    July 18, 2006 at 6:21 am

    Sorry! I read your “about” page too quickly. Nice blog, by the way. I’ll be back.

  3. Jack says:
    July 18, 2006 at 8:23 am

    The way I did the podcast was real fun. I wrote out the top 10 and picked up 10 off my shelf and recorded. I did #9 the same way all the way down to #1. Very fun. Let me know if you guys like it and I may do a “left off the list” episode. Considering I love Deathnote, it’s shocking for me it didn’t make the cut.

  4. Ash says:
    July 18, 2006 at 9:45 am

    Yes, *please* do a “left off the list” episode! And what about a commentary based on titles that dominant bestsellers lists? Your opinions regarding your top 10 were really interesting, so it might be fun to hear what you got to say about the big sellers. (And I’m sure you know what titles I’m talking about.)

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