Notes and notions

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber picks the manga she’d like to read from this month’s new releases.

Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss lots of new manga in this week’s Off the Shelf feature at Manga Bookshelf.

Translators Alethea and Athena Nibley take the whole translation notes thing to the extreme in their latest Words of Truth and Wisdom column at Manga Life, leaving all the nouns in a passage in Japanese and then providing notes afterwards. It’s an interesting exercise.

A new reader checks out some shoujo manga in the latest Manga Out Loud podcast.

A reporter from the Mainichi Daily News visits the hometown of Gegege no Kitaro creator Shigeru Mizuki.

Reviews

Tangognat on vol. 1 of Afterschool Charisma (Tangognat)
Kristin on vol. 1 of Alice the 101st (Comic Attack)
Lori Henderson on vols. 1-4 of Antique Bakery (Manga Xanadu)
Ken Haley on vols. 1 and 2 of Biomega (Sequential Ink)
Alex Hoffman on vol. 1 of Bokurano (Manga Widget)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Dengeki Daisy (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Lori Henderson on vol. 8 of Goong (Comics Village)
Chris Zimmerman on vols. 34-36 of One Piece (cbs4.com)
Chris Zimmerman on vol. 3 of Soul Eater (The Comic Book Bin)
Bill Sherman on vol. 2 of Vampire Hunter D (Blogcritics)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Yuri Hime Selection (Okazu)

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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