Monthly Archives: January 2007

The internets have yielded an unusually good harvest today—some unusual scanned manga and a couple of interesting commentaries—so fix yourself a cup of coffee and settle in for some good reading. A little Moto Hagio to start your day: For … Continue reading →

Cold Cut lists the top 300 comic books of 2006. To save you some time, Simon Jones has extracted the manga. (Link is, as always, NSFW.) It looks like Viz had a pretty good year, but IIRC, a lot of … Continue reading →

Tamika Taylor, a high-school junior, reviews Death Note for a local newspaper. It’s a nice little review and it’s nice to see a popular manga get some notice in the mainstream press. At coffeeandink, Mely and her commenters muse on … Continue reading →

Anime on DVD sniffs out the latest ADV solicitations from Right Stuf: Cromartie High School, Vol. #10 – $10.95 – 04/30/2007 Evangelion: Angelic Days (aka: Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel 2) Vol. #04 – $9.99 – 03/31/2007 Maburaho Vol. #02 – … Continue reading →

Well, vol. 12 of Naruto is showing some staying power; it’s still on the USA Today Top 150 Books, although it drops from 77th to 108th place. Vol. 9 of Death Note moves up to 126 (from 230). And vol. … Continue reading →

Apparently Viz has edited racially offensive caricatures in the past. This post from 2004 juxtaposes American and Japanese editions of Dragonball Z to show the obvious differences. (Via Dekadenbiyori.)