Yearly Archives: 2007

Rainy Monday linkblogging

Posted on January 15, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

We took the girls to see Linda Linda Linda yesterday at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, which is a great venue as it’s small and cozy. The movie, about four high school girls who form a band and struggle against … Continue reading →

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Sunday’s best

Posted on January 14, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Japan’s first free manga magazine launches this week with an initial printing of 100,000 copies and a target audience of 20- to 40-year-old men. The magazine will have half as many pages as the standard magazine and will apparently be … Continue reading →

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Review: Yuri Monogatari 4

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Yuri Monogatari 4 Rated MC, Mature Content, 18+ ALC Publishing, $15.99 The fourth in ALC Publishing’s series of anthologies, Yuri Monogatari 4 shows just how wide-ranging the yuri genre can be. The only thing that knits these nine stories together … Continue reading →

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Leisure reading

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

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 →

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Top sellers of 2006

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

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 →

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Thursday morning tidbits

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

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 →

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