Best-sellers and fresh reviews

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

The latest New York TImes Graphic Books Bestseller List is up, and Vampire Knight tops the list this week.

It’s license request day at Precocious Curmudgeon, and David Welsh is keeping it simple: More Ai Yazawa, please.

Elizabeth Shupe writes about Mitsukazu Mihara’s early works at Girlamatic.

If you’re not on Twitter, you’re missing the party, but fortunately Gia has summarized the most interesting anime and manga conversations of the past week at Anime Vice.

News from Japan: The government has put its economic growth policy into manga form, with a 16-year-old schoolgirl explaining it all to you.

Reviews

Lissa Pattillo on vol. 13 of Air Gear (Kuriousity)
Danielle Leigh on vol. 1 of Angelic Runes (Comics Should Be Good)
Connie on vol. 14 of From Eroica With Love (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 20 of Fullmetal Alchemist (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate Dacey on vols. 1-3 of Jyu-Oh-Sei (The Manga Critic)
Shojo Flash on vol. 1 of Kimi ni Todoke (Shojo Flash)
Tangognat on Marmalade Boy (Tangognat)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 3 of Mars (i heart manga)
Sam Kusek on issues 1-6 of Midnight Eye: Goku, Private Investigator (Manga Recon)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of Rin-ne (Manga Xanadu)
Emily on Shangri Love (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
asamisgirl on vol. 2 of Ze (The Yaoi Review)
Gia Manry on vol. 1 of Zone-00 (Anime Vice)

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 Best-sellers and fresh reviews

  1. Sesho says:
    August 15, 2009 at 10:24 am

    Inspired by the NYT list: Am I the only person in the world that is sick of freakin vampires and paranormal chick investigators and so called “urban fantasy”? All you have to do is put the word “vampire” on a book and it will sell. You could probably put “Vampire” on a cigar box of maggots and it would become a hot new commodity! They need to get rid of Oprah Winfrey and her magazine and just get a vampire talk show host (that would be a good idea for a manga!). The ratings would be through the roof! I think the next president of the United States should be a vampire! What is the inherent eroticism in getting bitten by what is essentially a giant tick? What is the source of this necrophilic lust that lies within some guys and girls?

    Another idea that is so burned out on in manga and anime: Demon Hunting! UGH.

  2. Jules says:
    August 15, 2009 at 11:34 pm

    You definitely aren’t the only one. Vampires this, vampires that. Though it would be nice to cash in on this craze… No wait, I’m making it worse.

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