Manga Village relocates, maid cafes under the microscope

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Brigid Alverson

Since they had pretty much taken over the place anyway, the manga reviewers at Comics Village have decamped and formed their own site, Manga Village. Reset your bookmarks and RSS feeds and stay tuned!

Melinda Beasi, Kate Dacey, Michelle Smith, and David Welsh discuss their pick of the week at Manga Bookshelf.

At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson is wondering if Inubaka has been cancelled. The upcoming volume disappeared from her Amazon wishlist and is currently listed as “no longer available.”

Patrick Galbraith has posted an interesting analysis of maid cafes.

Sam Kusek posts a quick list of all the podcasts he has contributed to at A Life in Panels.

News from Japan: Peach-Pit has brought Zombie-Loan to an end; the last episode ran in the March issue of G Fantasy magazine. Min Ayahana has created a Red Riding Hood Cha Cha (Akazukin Cha Cha) one-shot story, which will run in the May issue of Cookie. And Tanbishugi is working on the April release list.

Reviews: Carlo Santos checks out the latest releases in his new Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Ash Brown recounts a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga. Other reviews of note:

Kristin on vol. 3 of Bakuman and vol. 3 of Dorohedoro (Comic Attack)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of The Beautiful Skies of Houhou High and vol. 1 of Replica (The Manga Critic)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of Black Knight (Comics-and-More)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of Cardcaptor Sakura (omnibus edition) (Okazu)
Lori Henderson on vols. 3 and 4 of Chi’s Sweet Home (Manga Xanadu)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 2 of Dragon Girl (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 2 of Kamisama Kiss (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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One Response to Manga Village relocates, maid cafes under the microscope

  1. Mikhail Koulikov says:
    March 1, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    Patrick Galbraith has posted an interesting analysis of maid cafes.

    This is maybe being a bit pedantic, but there’s a big difference between something posted on a blog, and a peer-reviewed article that was probably written several months ago and has now been published in a well-known journal.

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