A classics student named Dygo Tosa has translated a story from Kazuhiro Fujita’s Ushio to Tora Gaiden and he has posted the first four pages on the web along with extensive notes. It’s written as an introduction to manga, so some of it will be familiar territory to scanlators and reviewers, but some is new, and it’s interesting to see his thought process. Also, it looks like a pretty nice manga, and it does not seem to have ever been translated into English. He’s waiting for copyright clearance to post more pages.
In a much less serious vein, Tokyopop is doing another online manga marathon, this one of Roadsong. Volume 2 must be coming out, as they have volume 1 up for free.
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.
