Square Enix, Digital Manga Guild, and Sailor Moon

I reviewed the Square Enix online manga store at MTV Geek. Short version: If I hadn’t been writing the review, I would never have made it past the second round of registration.

The Digital Manga Guild launched its first title, Tired of Waiting for Love, yesterday; it’s an 18+ title that is available digitally at eManga.com, and Deb Aoki has already posted a review at About.com. I interviewed Kimiko Kotani, the translator of the book, and Digital Manga CEO Hikaru Sasahara and marketer Yoko Tanigaki about the Digital Manga Guild last week.

My awesome local comics shop, Comicopia, will host a Sailor Moon Midnight Release party on Sept. 13, to celebrate the release of Kodansha’s new edition of the classic series—and its prequel, Codename Sailor V.

Reviews: Ash Brown discusses this week’s manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Kimiko Kotani on vol. 1 of Border (Kimi-Chan Experience)
Carlo Santos on vol. 3 of Itsuwaribito (ANN)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 5 of Karakuri Odette (Panel Patter)
Eric on Yakuza Moon (Giant Robot)
Matthew Warner on vol. 1 of Yu-gi-oh 5Ds (The Fandom Post)

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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