Quick news roundup

I know lots of you are reading Rin-ne online, but are you also following the blog at that site? It’s the kind of editors’ notes that I always enjoyed in Shojo Beat—editors who worked on different Takahashi books giving their perspective and sometimes putting in historical or cultural notes. The most recent post, by editor Kit Fox, takes a look at the different formats Viz has used over the years. Go, read!

At i ♥ manga, Lorena has some tips for getting the most manga out of your library.

Attention Jyu-Oh-Sei fans: Kate Dacey is giving away a free copy of vol. 3 at The Manga Critic.

Laura has a short piece on onigiri at Heart of Manga.

Sam Kusek files his Anime Boston con report at Manga Recon.

Reviews: Noah Berlatsky has a thoughtful review of Hideo Azuma’s Disappearance Diary at The Hooded Utilitarian.

Michelle Smith on vol. 20 of Boys Over Flowers (Soliloquy in Blue)
Lorena on vol. 2 of Gankutsuou (i ♥ manga)
Danielle Leigh on vol. 2 of Hey, Class President (Comics Should Be Good)
Katherine Farmar on vol. 2 of Ordinary Crush (Comics Village)

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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