Quickies

Katherine Dacey-Tsuei goes over this week’s new manga and throws in a couple of short reviews in her Weekly Recon.

This week’s new release list is also up at The Otaku.

Comicsnob publishes last week’s online sales figures and the list of the top 25 series and top 100 volumes online and tries to figure out the bricks-and-mortar numbers as well.

Manga-ka Kazuo Koike, of Lone Wolf and Cub fame, has set up a new company to educate manga creators and manage their copyrights.

Bad news for Robot fans: Digital probably won’t be publishing any future volumes of the series, which an editor says is “pretty much stuck in ‘licensing hell.'”

MangaNEXT announces three new guests: Jason Thompson, Hiroki Otsuka, and Mari Marimoto.

Anime blogger Nomad has an interesting set of reviews of manga in Japanese, including information on how easy they are to read.

FPS Magazine reviews Frederick Schodt’s The Astro Boy Essays.

Reviews: Leroy Douresseaux pulls vol. 8 of Buso Renkin out of the Comic Book Bin. Tiamat’s Disciple reviews Parallel and vols. 1-2 of Ghost Hunt. Ken Haley checks out vols. 1-2 of Street Fighter Alpha at the Manga Recon blog.