Weekend roundup

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

In the spirit of Black Friday, Manga Jouhou offers a holiday manga guide.

My husband called me as he was fixing dinner last night to listen to a segment about otaku and another on hikikomori on All Things Considered. In case you missed it, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei has a summary and links for future reading. And then go over to IsShoKenMei for a look at what the hard-core otaku might drive.

Manga returns to the Booklist: volume 10 of Fullmetal Alchemist made this week’s USA Today Top 150.

At Deutsche Mangaka, Elae translates some manga preview pages from Carlsen Comics. I really appreciate Elae’s work, as it makes a big segment of the global manga world more accessible to those of us who don’t speak German.

And at Okazu, Erica is translating the 15th Maria Sama ga Miteru novel (link is to chapter 1), which is also pretty awesome.

Ed at the MangaCast has a podcast review of From Eroica with Love and Trinity Blood and he threw in a curry recipe to help you use up the leftovers. At Anime on DVD, Jarred Pine reviews one of the most talked-about titles of the year, Ohikkoshi. Yaoi Suki takes a look at White Guardian. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie reads Yoki Koto Kiku and decides Koge-Donbo is not for her. Blogcritics reviews Reiko the Zombie Shop. At ANN, Pata reviews Punch! and Melissa “Minai” Harper has a mixed review of The World Exists for Me.

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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3 Responses to Weekend roundup

  1. Elae says:
    November 25, 2006 at 11:10 am

    Thanks for the link back! Glad our work doesn’t go unappreciated. ^^
    Looks like you put “rhef” instead of “href” in the html, though, so the link doesn’t show up- just thought I’d let you know.

  2. Brigid says:
    November 25, 2006 at 11:19 am

    Thanks Elae. I fixed it. (I do that at least once per post, but I usually catch it before I hit “publish.)

  3. Alexiel says:
    November 25, 2006 at 5:12 pm

    This thank you would have come quicker, but I thought I’d actually get some time to read through the otaku & hikkikomori articles before I did so and give a more detailed response. Turns out I didn’t, but I certainly will eventually.

    Thank you very much for the linkage, Brigid. ^^ I haven’t had much to say on manga since I’ve lived in Osaka, so I didn’t see this coming, haha.

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