More scary links

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Brigid Alverson

Sean Gaffney takes a look ahead to next week’s new manga releases.

Lori Henderson rounds up all the links for day three of the Manga Moveable Feast at Manga Xanadu.

Guest posters Shaenon Garrity and Jason Thompson share their thoughts on Kazuo Umezu’s The Drifting Classroom at The Hooded Utilitarian.

News from Japan: Respondents to a survey from the Japanese news site Ameba picked Death Note as the greatest Shonen Jump manga of the 2000s. Kyoto Seika University, the first university in Japan to offer a course of manga studies, is launching a manga community website where users can upload their original manga and critique the work of others. ANN has the weekly comics rankings, and the fifth volume of Saint Young Men is at the top, meaning every volume of the series has made number one.

Reviews: Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss a handful of Halloween-friendly manga in their latest Off the Shelf column at Manga Bookshelf.

Rebecca Silverman on vol. 8 of Butterflies, Flowers (ANN)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 10 of Detroit Metal City (The Comic Book Bin)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Musashi #9 (Blogcritics)
Alex Hoffman and Lori Henderson on vols. 1 and 2 of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Manga Xanadu)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Psyren (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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One Response to More scary links

  1. Manga Therapy says:
    October 27, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Regarding Saint Young Men, it’s Saint Young Men Volume 7 that topped the rankings and the series has been at the top for 5 straight volumes starting with Volume 3. :)

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