Manga calling!

It’s Wednesday already! David Welsh reveals his picks from this week’s new manga.

Canned Dogs has some shots of the Japanese manga Ikoku meiro no croisee, by Takeda Hinata, and it’s worth a click for the lovely art. The comments led me to this French blog, Carceri, which looks like it has some nice art and intelligent commentary on manga and anime; for those who read French, there’s a recent post about Hinata to complement the link above.

Danielle Leigh posts her second column at Comics Should Be Good, this one about manga for adults (as opposed to, you know, “adult manga”). It’s a nice introduction to the Japanese system as well, for those who are new to the field.

Part 2 of Jason Thompson’s column on the cell phone manga Guilstein is up at comiXology; part 1 is here in case you missed it.

At Comics Village, John Thomas weighs in on the question of “what is manga?”

In his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN, Carlo Santos jumps right on to the new Naruto story arc and checks out Bleach, Uzumaki, and a couple of new titles as well.

New blog alert: Manga, not anime! which is just what it claims to be. The reviews are tart and spoilery and written by someone who obviously knows the field pretty well, and there are some interesting posts on ongoing series in Japan. Check out this post on Shiki, a new serial in Jump SQ‚—it’s a good jumping-in point.

Siku’s version of The Manga Bible gets a blurb from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

For you far-north otaku, Senshi-Con happens this weekend in Anchorage, Alaska. And true to their credo that “Wherever two or three are gathered together, there’s someone from Tokyopop there too,” the House of DJ Milky is sending Dark Moon Diary artist Brett Uher and writer Che Gilson.

Reviews: There’s a fresh bouquet of manga reviews up at Comics Village: Charles Tan on vol. 1 of Uzumaki, Dan Polley on vol. 8 of Tail of the Moon, Lissa Pattillo on You & Harujion, Sabrina on vol. 1 of Initial D, and Lori Henderson on vol. 6 of Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden. At Anime Sentinel, James Fleenor posts his impressions of vols. 10 and 11 of Claymore. Ferdinand of Prospero’s Manga is impressed by a porn title, vol. 1 of Blue Eyes, but perhaps not for the reasons you’d think. Matthew J. Brady starts out rather dubious of vol. 1 of Suppli, but by the end he is convinced, at Warren Peace Sings the Blues. Julie has vol. 28 of Boys Over Flowers and vol. 12 of Kekkaishi on the menu at the Manga Maniac Cafe. At Firefox News, Peter Gutierrez checks out some horror and horror-ish titles from Del Rey: Vols. 1 and 2 of Alive, vols. 1 and 2 of Parasyte, and vol. 1 of Le Chevalier d’Eon.