Monday briefing

Viz will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and the Sequential Tart writers mark the occasion with a roundup of their favorite Viz manga.

Erica Friedman brings us the latest edition of Yuri Network News and a sneak peek at a piece of art from the Rica ‘tte Kanji!? omnibus at Okazu.

The Manga Village team picks the best of the latest manga releases.

David Welsh asks his readers how they feel about endnotes, and they answer with a resounding “Do want!”

News from Japan: At Genji Press, Serdar Yegulalp marks the death of manga-ka Shinji Wada with a look at his manga Sukeban Deka. The 50th Japan Science Fiction Convention will give an award to Fullmetal Alchemist.

Reviews

Connie on vol. 6 of Black Butler (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kristin on vol. 2 of Blue Exorcist (Comic Attack)
Connie on Deeply Loving a Maniac (Slightly Biased Manga)
Erica Friedman on Kila Kila (Okazu)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 9 of Kimi ni Todoke (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 5 of Kurozakuro (The Comic Book Bin)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vols. 1 and 2 of March on Earth (Comics Worth Reading)
Shannon Fay on Men of Tattoos (Kuriousity)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 3 of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Vicki Paull on vols. 1-9 of Ouran High School Host Club (Manga Bubbles)
Connie on vol. 3 of Peepo Choo (Slightly Biased Manga)
Michelle Smith on vols. 40-42 of The Prince of Tennis (Soliloquy in Blue)
Vicki Paull on Ristorante Paradiso (Manga Bubbles)
Kate Dacey on Samurai Crusader (The Manga Critic)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 9 of Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei (A Case Suitable for Treatment)

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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