Early edition

Posted on December 2, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

I’m posting early because I’m heading out in the morning for New York, where I’ll be moderating a panel discussion on manga at MoCCA on Monday, Dec. 3, at 6:30 p.m. It’s a great panel—we have Del Rey publisher Dallas Middaugh, Kinokuniya manager John Fuller, translator Mari Morimoto, and designer Brad Foltz. It should be a good time, so if you’re in the area, come on down!

OK, on to the other news…

Matt Blind of Comicsnob does his weekly analysis of online manga sales, along with lists of the top 100 volumes and top 25 series.

At MangaCast, Ed speculates a bit about light novels in the U.S. before posting the Japanese light novel rankings, as well as the Japanese doujinshi ratings. Speaking of which: ANN reports that the Japanese retailer Toroana now offers doujinshi downloads.

ComiPress posts another chapter from Manga Zombie, this one on Kaze Shinobu, and brings news of new series in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Manga Xanadu comments on the news that Japanese publishers will make manga and anime available on the Nintendo DS. Also: A plea to Viz to lift City Hunter out of limbo.

Canned Dogs checks out Hoshi no Samidare, about a college student who is reluctant to save the world from destruction by a giant hammer. Go on, take a look.

The German blog Manly Manga and More posts a manga shopping list for December.

Dallas Middaugh posts a sample of art by Nina Matsumoto, whose Yokaiden is forthcoming from Del Rey.

Reviews: Dan Grendell of Comic Pants posts brief reviews of the best manga from November. At PopCultureShock, the Manga Recon bloggers pitch in with some short takes as well. Mangamaniac Julie checks out From Up Above at MangaCast and vol. 9 of Kamui and vol. 1 of Pumpkin Scissors at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Connie reviews vol. 10 of Astro Boy and vol. 4 of 3×3 Eyes at Slightly Biased Manga. At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood reviews World’s End and vol. 1 of Prince Charming, and Christopher Seamann reads vol. 11 of Monster. Michelle reviews vol. 21 of Bleach at Soliloquy in Blue. Kethylia checks out A King’s Lesson. Billy Aguiar gives two and a half stars to vol. 1 of Key to the Kingdom at CBGXtra. At Okazu, Erica Friedman enjoys vol. 2 of Red Garden, except for the lack of yuri. At Manga Life, Dan Polley reviews vol. 1 of Aventura and Spawn: Shadows of Spawn, and Lori Henderson gives her take on vol. 1 of Zombie Loan. Danielle Van Gorder takes a peek at vol. 1 of Sunflower at Anime on DVD. Kiara reviews Stand By Youth at Manganews.

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.
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One Response to Early edition

  1. JennyN says:
    December 3, 2007 at 6:16 am

    Interesting and rather depressing to realise how little of Hojo Tsukasa’s work is available to English-speaking audiences. He’s a minor god in France, although a number of his titles aren’t currently available there. (The anime version of CITY HUNTER, shown on French TV, was also wildly popular). It’s true that some of his humour is based on the kind of gender stereotyping no longer in favour in “the West”, but he often delights in giving those same stereotypes an unexpected twist – his young girls are particularly formidable – while he has an unrivalled way with situation comedy. I hope Viz does take up this challenge!

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