Quickies

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber has some advice for manga publishers about going digital.

Jason Thompson takes a look at Battle Angel Alita in his latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

Linda Thai’s interview with Stu Levy continues at Something Deeper.

Melinda Beasi recommends some manga folks to follow on Twitter and looks at some cold-weather manga, as winter closes in.

David Welsh finishes off the Manga Moveable Feast with a few final posts.

The Yaoi Review has the latest Animate yaoi releases for the Kindle.

News from Japan: Ten publishers, including manga giants Kodansha, Shueisha, and Shogakukan, have announced they will boycotting the Tokyo Anime Fair to protest the Tokyo government’s amendment to the Youth Healthy Development Ordinance, which would require the manga industry to restrict the sale of various materials to minors. Love Hina creator Ken Akamatsu has announced that he will release some of his rare early works online, for free, in PDF form.

Reviews

Brent Newhall on vol. 1 of Hikaru no Go (Otaku, No Video)
Anna on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kiss (Manga Report)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 3 of Seiho Boys High School (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Ai Kano on vol. 14 of Strawberry 100% (Animanga Nation)
Todd Douglass on vol. 9 of Yotsuba&! (Anime Maki)

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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