More new manga, and farewell to Yen Plus

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

The sleuths at ANN think they have figured out the third Seven Seas license: Toaru Kagaku no Railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun), by Motoi Fuyukawa.

The Manga Village team looks over the past week’s new releases and makes their picks.

The last print issue of Yen Plus is on the stands. Nobody is sure what happens next…

Fumi Yoshinaga Week continues at Manga Bookshelf with Melinda Beasi’s review of All My Darling Daughters, and readers are invited to vote for their favorite continuing manhwa series in her latest Manhwa Monday post.

A Swedish manga translator has been fined for the offense of having child pornography, apparently manga samples he downloaded from the internet, on his hard drive. The usual issues get hashed over in this fairly complete news article, but it’s kind of interesting that the judge said the man didn’t need all of the 50 or so images he had, suggesting that just a few might be OK.

Reviews: Carlo Santos rips through a whole batch of new manga in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Other reviews of note:

Julie Opipari on vol. 4 of 13th Boy (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Kristin on vol. 9 of 20th Century Boys (Comic Attack)
Grant Goodman on vol. 33 of Berserk (Comics Village)
Connie on Black-Winged Love (Slightly Biased Manga)
Alexander Hoffman on vol. 1 of Bokurano: Ours (Comics Village)
Billy Aguiar on vol. 1 of Fairy Navigator Runa (Prospero’s Manga)
Connie on vol. 2 of Flower in a Storm (Slightly Biased Manga)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of Hyde & Closer (Comics-and-More)
Julie Opipari on vol. 12 of Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Sophie Stevens on vol. 4 of Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You (Animanga Nation)
Michelle Smith on vols. 22-24 of One Piece (Soliloquy in Blue)
Laura on vol. 5 of Pig Bride (Heart of Manga)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 4 of Rasetsu (Manga Life)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 16 of S.A. (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Andre on vol. 23 of Yakitate!! Japan (Kuriousity)

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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