Friday finds

Manga: Coming to a mall near you? Publisher’s Weekly reports that Trans World Entertainment, whose stores include F.Y.E., Coconuts, Sam Goody, Suncoast, and Planet Music, has made a deal with wholesaler Bookazine to put manga sections in its stores. There’s a certain logic to this, as many of these stores also sell anime, and perhaps manga will find readers who don’t usually go to bookstores.

Jason Thompson guests at Shaenon Garrity’s LiveJournal, where he counts down the ten best worst manga for your reading pleasure, causing John Jakala to fondly recall his own evisceration of Bomber Girl.

At The Pulse (no permalinks, but scroll down a bit) Jennifer Contino interviews writer Barbara Kesel about The Dark Crystal. (Via Beedlejuice.)

Yaoi Suki has started handing out their gently snarky Yaoi Awards.

A couple of years ago, ADV published vol. 1 of Boku to Kanojo no XXX as Your and My Secret, then dropped the series. Tokyopop has picked it up, but if you can’t wait to know what’s in the next two volumes, Adam Stephandes has some comments at Completely Futile.

The hardcover edition of vol. 6 of Tezuka’s Buddha is out of print.

Reviews: At Coffeeandink, Mely enjoys vol. 1 of Walkin’ Butterfly, with some reservations. Greg Hackmann reviews vol. 1 of Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor at Anime on DVD. Lori Henderson checks out vol. 12 of Dr. Slump at Manga Life. At Prospero’s Manga, Miranda updates us on vols. 4-7 of Crossroad, while Ferdinand concludes that the novel Full Metal Panic! vol. 1: Fighting Boy Meets Girl doesn’t add much to the story if you have already read the manga and seen the anime. At Active Anime, Christopher Seaman reviews vol. 15 of Negima and vol. 14 of I”s, Davey C. Jones checks out vol. 1 of Atelier Marie and Elie Zarburg Alchemist, and Holly Ellingwood reads Melted Love. Julie finds vol. 2 of Star Trek: The Manga somewhat entertaining at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Ken Haley reviews vols. 1-3 of Mail at PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon blog. Tanuki has a nice review of Yotsuba&! at du9.