Quick morning post

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Short post this morning, as I’m wrapping up another article, but I’ll be back later with more.

Kate Dacey posts this week’s new releases at The Manga Critic.

I can’t believe I Tweeted this article the other day and then forgot to link to it: The New York Times discovers the mobile manga boom in Japan. There are some interesting aspects to this, such as the phenomenon of women buying racy manga (misidentified as shojo in the article) that they would be embarrassed to be seen reading in book form, the big publishers’ resistance to changing their business model, and the fact that male readers—”the mainstay manga readership,” according to the Times—still prefer paper.

Japanator’s Brad Rice reports back from the latest Vertical Vednesday, which was devoted to the topic of light novels.

Reviews: The Manga Recon team presents another set of Manga Minis for your delectation.

asamisgirl on vol. 1 of Breath (The Yaoi Review)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 2 of Gestalt (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Shojo Flash on vol. 1 of I Hate You More Than Anyone (Shojo Flash)
Oyceter on vols. 2-7 of Kitchen Princess (Sakura of DOOM)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 1 of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (i heart manga)
Sesho on vol. 1 of The Prince of Tennis (Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews)
Oyceter on vol. 2 of Sugar Princess (Sakura of DOOM)

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 morning post

  1. JRBrown says:
    August 5, 2009 at 11:31 am

    “the phenomenon of women buying racy manga (misidentified as shojo in the article)”

    I dunno, they might be talking about TL, “teens’ love”, which is basically shojo romance with more explicit sex.

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