Monthly Archives: June 2011

Jason Thompson’s pick for this week’s House of 1000 Manga column is the Manga of Deep Feminist Shame, Hot Gimmick. Go, read, and remember why you kept on reading it even though you hated yourself for it. Melinda Beasi and … Continue reading →

AstroNerdBoy posts his “dream list” of the Tokyopop series he’d like to see rescued. Sean Gaffney takes a look at next week’s new manga, which apparently will include some Tokyopop titles—I heard this from Matt Lehman of Comicopia as well. … Continue reading →

I looked over today’s new manga releases at MTV Geek. The Manga Bookshelf bloggers debate their Pick of the Week. Daniella Orihuela-Gruber discusses her collection of out-of-print manga. Reviews: Ash Brown brings us through a week’s worth of manga reading … Continue reading →

Ed Chavez, marketing director for Vertical, Inc., confirmed at Anime Next that Vertical will publish an omnibus edition of Osamu Tezuka’s Dororo. At The Daily Yomiuri, Roland Kelts contrasts the continuing enthusiasm for anime and manga in the U.S. with … Continue reading →

I reviewed Shigeru Mizuki’s Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths for Graphic Novel Reporter and vol. 1 of A Bride’s Story for MTV Geek. Melinda Beasi updates us on life in the Digital Manga Guild, where editing teams are have gotten … Continue reading →

I made my own picks from this week’s new manga at MTV Geek. News from Japan: Kyoto Seika University will start offering a PhD in manga in 2012. And the fourth volume of Hunter x Hunter, which has been on … Continue reading →