Quick roundup

At Rocket Bomber, Matt Blind has the most recent manga sales charts (reflecting online sales) and he also takes a closer look at how Yen Press is doing.

Amazon has listed Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, as a 2011 release from Viz, which has already announced it has licensed the anime.

Vol. 2 of Chi’s Sweet Home is Melinda Beasi’s Pick of the Week at Manga Bookshelf.

E is for Eden, Emma, ES, and a host of other titles as David Welsh continues his seinen alphabet at The Manga Curmudgeon.

News from Japan: Manga-ka Yukito Kishiro says on his blog that his Battle Angel Alita, which he put on hiatus after a dispute with his editors, will return, in either Shueisha’s Ultra Jump (its original home) or Kodansha’s Evening. The dispute is a bit complicated, but it’s an interesting story and I encourage you to check the link.

Reviews: Carlo Santos delivers another batch of undiluted opinions on a variety of recent releases in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Other reviews of note:

Zack Davisson on vol. 4 of Alice in the Country of Hearts (Japan Reviewed)
Kristin on Clan of the Nakagamis and Clan of the Nakagamis: The Devil Cometh (Comic Attack)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 2 of Dorohedoro (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Erica Friedman on Girlish Sweet (Okazu)
Connie C. on vol. 1 of Good-Bye (Comics Village)
Emily on Hotaru no Hikari (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Billy Aguiar on vols. 1-3 of Nightschool (Prospero’s Manga)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Wolf God (ANN)
Ken Haley on vol. 1 of Vampire Hunter D (Sequential Ink)

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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