Still here, still reading manga

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

OT, but important: The LHC was turned on while we were sleeping, and the world didn’t come to an end. Apparently Nostradamus and all those YouTube people were wrong. Mr. MangaBlog is one of the physicists on the CMS collaboration, so we have been enjoying watching LHC become a media phenomenon. If you haven’t seen it yet, the LHC Rap will make you an expert on this topic in short order.

ANN’s unfortunately named women’s roundtable on anime takes on moe this week, and as always, it’s a fascinating and intelligent discussion.

Want to win your very own copy of Tokyo Zombie? Go to Same Hat! Same Hat! and check out their contest!

Reviews: David Welsh reviews vol. 1 of Red Colored Elegy at The Comics Reporter. Cathy takes a look at vol. 7 of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, complete with some peeks at the art, at It can’t all be about manga. Lori Henderson reads the August and September issues of Shojo Beat at Manga Xanadu. Charles Tan reviews vol. 1 of Cat-Eyed Boy at Comics Village. Lissa Pattillo looks at the scanlated series Yume Musubi, Koi Musubi at Manga Jouhou and vol. 8 of After School Nightmare at Kuriousity. At ANN, Carl Kimlinger reads vol. 2 of Fairy Tail and Casey Brienza reviews vols. 1-2 of Thunderbolt Boys: Excite and 12 Days. Sakurapassion checks out Two of Hearts at The Yaoi Review. Michelle reviews vol. 9 of Kare Kano at Soliloquy in Blue. New at Manga Life: David Rasmussen on vol. 1 of Vampire Knight, vol. 1 of Seven of Seven, and vol. 1 of the Death Note Collectors Edition, and Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlaine on vol. 6 of S.A. and vol. 7 of The Gentlemen’s Alliance +. Julie looks at vol. 23 of Red River at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Emily picks up Kon na Panic at Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page. Ferdinand is not impressed with vol. 1 of Time Stranger Kyoko at Prospero’s Manga. Erica Friedman has some fun with vol. 3 of Magie Paire at Okazu. Jog reviews vol. 1 of Afro Samurai and vol. 1 of Slam Dunk. Katie McNeill reviews Goth at Blogcritics. Reviewer Il Palazzo picks vol. 1 of Vampire Knight as a first shoujo manga (after reading lots of shonen) at Pink Kryptonite. Tiamat’s Disciple checks out Slayers: Medieval Mayhem.

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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2 Responses to Still here, still reading manga

  1. Kuri says:
    September 10, 2008 at 10:54 am

    The review for Yume Musubi, Koi Musubi over at Manga Jouhou was actually written by M. Jules Michel. I was just the editor on it.

    Also, happy to see the world continues spinning! ;)

  2. Jura says:
    September 11, 2008 at 6:55 am

    Please don’t link to rap music videos. = (

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