Monday roundup

David Welsh invites his readers to vote for some dubious shonen manga and even more dubious yaoi manga from this month’s Previews at The Manga Curmudgeon.

The Manga Village team looks over the past week’s new releases.

Erica Friedman has the latest Yuri Network News at Okazu.

Lissa Pattillo shows off her latest purchases at Kuriousity.

News from Japan: The horror manga Shiki comes to an end in the July issue of Jump Square. And Moto Hagio will be a guest professor at Joshibi University of Art and Design.

Reviews

Lissa Pattillo on vol. 6 of Arata: The Legend (Kuriousity)
Serdar Yegulalp on vol. 14 of Black Jack (Genji Press)
Alexander Hoffman on vol. 3 of Bunny Drop (Manga Village)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 13 of Fairy Tail (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Erica Friedman on Honnou to Senshokutai, Instinct and a Chromosome (Okazu)
Carlo Santos on vol. 5 of Maoh: Juvenile Remix (ANN)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 29 of Negima! (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
James Fleenor on not simple (Anime Sentinel)
Bill Sherman on vol. 1 of Pavane for a Dead Girl (Blogcritics)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 2 of Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura (The Comic Book Bin)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Tenjho Tenge: Full Contact Edition (The Manga Critic)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 12 of Vampire Knight (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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