Katherine Dacey-Tsuei starts off the week right with her Weekly Recon, a list of new manga plus some quick reviews of recent titles.
Shaenon Garrity sings the praises of Yotsuba&! in her latest Overlooked Manga Festival.
Queenie Chan takes a break from her work on In Odd We Trust, the graphic novel based on Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas novels, to update us on that work and treat us to some chapter headers from the final volume of The Dreaming.
The Sweatdrop gang has a new podcast up, with impressions of Fuyucon and the London UK Expo.
At Comicsnob, Matt Blind posts The Pulse, his analysis of online sales for the past week, along with the top 25 series and top 100 single volumes.
MangaCast has Part 1 of the Big List of Japanese manga releases (this one focuses on BL) and more info on Yaoi-Con announcements from June (light novels), Aurora/Deux, and Yen Press, as well as audio of the June panel.
ComiPress continues to publish the translated Manga Zombie with a look at Miyaya Kazuhiko.
As I predicted, the folks at du9 have translated Xavier Guilbert’s review of Ode to Kirihito into English.
It seems like a lot of folks are doing overviews of entire series. Here’s Lyle Masaki at AfterElton, blogging about Fake. Isaac Hale looks at X-Day at Authentic Mango. In a similar vein, Tiamat’s Disciple posts series overviews of Battle Royale and Battle Vixens. And Love_Nothing_El… has a summary of Naruto at Manga Punk.
Reviews: At Mecha Mecha Media, John T posts meaty reviews, with scans, of vol. 1 of Uzumaki and vol. 1 of Psycho Busters. Coeli reviews Uzumaki, vol. 1 of Zashiki Onna, and Air at Poopsies. Nick checks out vol. 1 of Black God at Hobotaku. Michael Aronson is earning his keep at Manga Life, with reviews of vols. 1 and 2 of Nextworld, vols. 5 and 6 of Bleach, and vols. 9 and 10 of Vagabond. Joshua Habel checks out vol. 1 of Yotsuba&! at The Stute. At MangaCast, Eva reviews the yaoi novel Little Darling and Julie checks out vol. 1 of Little Butterfly. Connie reviews a string of Hino Horror manga at Slightly Biased Manga: Onibono and the Bugs from Hell 2, Living Corpse, Black Cat, The Collection 1, and The Collection 2. Ken Haley opens up vol. 1 of Presents at Manga Recon. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist!)
