Tezuka goes to the theater; more manga picks

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Brigid Alverson

At MTV Geek, I posted my list of the best manga of 2011 and rounded up some recent manga news from Japan.

The Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their Picks of the Week.

Kristy Valenti discusses theatrical influences on two Osamu Tezuka manga, Princess Knight and The Book of Human Insects.

Deb Aoki posts a guide to comics gifts that support good causes.

News from Japan: Be x Boy 13* includes a story by the French manga-ka Eternal-S; you can check out more of her work, including the cover of her Black Butler doujinshi, on Deviantart. The second issue of Cocohana will include Setona Mizushiro’s Nōnai Poison Berry along with a number of other series, both new and carried over from its predecessor magazine Chorus. Maki Murakami has returned to work on Kanpai! after ten years; the first chapter of the relaunched series appeared in this week’s issue of Comic Spica. Nodame Cantabile manga-ka Tomoko Ninomiya gave birth to a baby boy on November 24.

Reviews: The Manga Bookshelf team turns in a fresh set of Bookshelf Briefs. Ash Brown reflects on another week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Connie on About Love (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 3 of Ai Ore (Slightly Biased Manga)
David Brothers on Blue Exorcist (Comics Alliance)
Jeff Jackson Ian Johnson on Breathe Deeply (Comic Attack)
Kristin on vol. 1 of Dawn of the Arcana (Comic Attack)
Connie on vol. 4 of House of Five Leaves (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 4 of Mars (Slightly Biased Manga)
Matthew Warner on vol. 6 of Rosario + Vampire, Season II (The Fandom Post)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 7 of Toriko (ANN)

*Correction: This is the French Be x Boy, not the Japanese edition, so I guess I should put it in the News from France section. Thanks to JRB in the comments for setting me straight!

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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2 Responses to Tezuka goes to the theater; more manga picks

  1. Jeff Jackson says:
    November 29, 2011 at 8:42 am

    Hi there, just for clarification, the review on Comicattack.net on Breathe Deeply was done by our writer Capekiller, not me. I just posted it in a pinch. Thanks!

  2. JRB says:
    November 29, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    “Be x Boy 13 includes a story by the French manga-ka Eternal-S”

    You might want to clarify that this the French edition of Be x Boy, not the original Japanese magazine. The French Be x Boy is entirely run by Asuka and basically previews whatever they’re going to be publishing soon, whether it’s a Libre title or not. It’s not really connected to the Libre magazine except in name.

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