Quick takes

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Bamboo, Casey, and Sarah talk to manga maven Jason Thompson about censorship in the latest women’s anime roundtable.

At PWCW, various critics vote on the best graphic novels of 2008, and quite a few manga make the cut. As we noted earlier, Kai-Ming Cha also picks the best manga of the year, and the featured preview is from Yen Press’s upcoming manga version of James Patterson’s Maximum Ride.

Hazel takes a look at new releases for this month, with links and commentary.

There’s more of Naoki Urasawa’s Billy Bat manga at The Eastern Edge, but be warned, there are spoilers!

At Rocket Bomber, Matt Blind presents his usual suite of online sales rankings for the past week: Top 500, new releases and pre-orders, emerging trends report, and a rankings summary.

Barb Lien-Cooper muses about which manga would make good movies at Manga Life.

Reviews: Johanna Draper Carlson recommends vol. 1 of Black Jack at Comics Worth Reading. Park Cooper reviews vol. 24 of Hunter x Hunter at Manga Life. Tiamat’s Disciple checks out vol. 5 of Moon Boy and vol. 4 of Zombie-Loan. Lissa Pattillo reads vol. 10 of +Anima at Kuriousity. Casey Brienza has a short take on vol. 1 of School Rumble at her Kethylia LJ. Melinda Beasi enjoys the full run of vols. 1-6 of One Thousand and One Nights at Manga Recon. Ed Chavez devotes his latest podcast to vol. 1 of Mamoru the Shadow Protector at MangaCast. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie reads vols. 5 and 6 of Do Whatever You Want, vol. 4 of Human Club, and vol. 14 of The Law of Ueki. Kris gives thumbs up to vol. 2 of Kyo Kara MAOH! at Manic About Manga. Alex Hoffman presents an expanded version of his review of vol. 1 of My-Hime at Manga Widget. Oyceter is reading the Chinese translation of vols. 1-3 of Hoshi wa Utau, by Fruits Basket creator Natsuki Takaya, at Sakura of DOOM. Tangognat checks out vol. 1 of Kekkaishi. Emily finds a title with a different twist, Pump-Up!, at Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page.

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 Quick takes

  1. jun says:
    January 7, 2009 at 7:45 am

    We also have a new Manga Minis column up at Manga Recon, including my review of Monster, Vol. 18.

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