Just another girl-meets-girl manga

At The Hooded Utilitarian, Erica Friedman explores “Story A,” the basic story that gets told over and over again in yuri manga.

Melinda Beasi rounds up all the Korean-comics news in her latest Manhwa Monday post at Manga Bookshelf.

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

The next Manga Moveable Feast will feature the works of Rumiko Takahashi, and Rob McMonigal is hosting it at Panel Patter. Rob also continues his yearlong appreciation of Takahashi with some thoughts on One Pound Gospel.

Reviews: Ash Brown reviews a week’s worth of manga at Experiments in Manga. Melinda Beasi, Kate Dacey, Michelle Smith, and David Welsh present short takes on recent releases at Manga Bookshelf.

Julie Opipari on Desert Warrior (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Animemiz on Kamisama Kiss (Anime Diet)
Leroy Douresseaux on Love Lesson (I Reads You)
Kristin on vol. 2 of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan and vol. 4 of Hyde & Closer (Comic Attack)
Tom Spurgeon on A Single Match (The Comics Reporter)
Julie Opipari on vol. 3 of Sumomomo, Momomo (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Dave Ferraro on vols. 1-3 of Totally Captivated (Comics-and-More)
Lori Henderson on the March issue of Yen Plus (Manga Xanadu)

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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