Comfort manga

Jason Thompson looks at Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha in this week’s House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

On the ANNCast, Ed Chavez of Vertical (publishers of Buddha!) discusses his company’s new licenses, Princess Knight and Drops of God. Manga bloggers Ed Sizemore and Deb Aoki drop in as well. Lissa Pattillo has more on the new licenses at Kuriousity.

Sean Gaffney looks ahead to next week’s new manga. It looks like there are lots of new volumes of long-running series in the works (Blade of the Immortal, Black Jack), plus a few newcomers (Amnesia Labyrinth)

David Welsh’s latest license request is Umimachi Diary, a josei manga by the creator of Banana Fish.

Melinda Beasi looks at some comfort manga at Manga Bookshelf: Manga that feature “warmth, food, and easy people.”

Tony Yao posts his entry for the the Manga Moveable Feast with a look at Karakuri Odette and our attitudes toward robots at Manga Therapy

At All About Manga, Daniella Orihuela-Gruber asks her readers: How do you pick your favorite manga?

News from Japan: Tanbishugi has a list of the March manga releases, broken down by publisher.

Reviews

Carlo Santos on vol. 13 of 20th Century Boys (ANN)
Ken Haley on vol. 1 of Cardcaptor Sakura (omnibus edition) (Sequential Ink)
Connie on vol. 4 of Crown of Love (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 2 of Sarasah (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate Dacey on vols. 1 and 2 of Shoulder-a-Coffin, Kuro (The Manga Critic)
Julie Opipari on vol. 1 of The Story of Lee (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 2 of The Story of Saiunkoku (The Comic Book Bin)

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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