New manga, Borders memories, and more on Fruits Basket

I checked out this week’s new manga for MTV Geek.

The Manga Moveable Feast continues, and host David Welsh rounds up all the links from yesterday’s blogging about Fruits Basket.

As Borders, once the best bookstore for manga, closes its doors, Jason Yadao has some memories and thoughts about what’s next. Sesho also has some thoughts on the end of Borders and the beginning of JManga.com in his latest podcast.

Tony Yao looks at mental illness in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei and wonders if yakuza stories are on the way out at Manga Therapy.

News from Japan: The Tiger and Bunny anime is getting its own manga series.

Reviews

Connie on vol. 16 of 20th Century Boys (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate Dacey on Basic Anatomy for the Manga Artist (The Manga Critic)
Michelle Smith on vols. 1 and 2 of Backstage Prince (digital version) (Soliloquy in Blue)
Matthew Alexander on vol. 13 of Black God (The Fandom Post)
Serdar Yegulalp on vol. 15 of Black Jack (Genji Press)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 5 of Cat Paradise (Panel Patter)
Sesho on vol. 1 of A Certain Scientific Railgun (Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews)
Erica Friedman on the July 2011 issue of Comic Yuri Hime (Okazu)
Sesho on vol. 1 of Highschool of the Dead (Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews)
Connie on vol. 38 of Oh My Goddess (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 4 of Ooku (Slightly Biased Manga)

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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