Yearly Archives: 2011

Style and substance

The Manga Villagers peruse the best of the past week’s new manga. David Welsh takes a look at the winners of this year’s Shogakukan Manga Awards; only Ooku: The Inner Chamber has been licensed in the U.S., but several of … Continue reading

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MMF winds up; new titles from Digital

The Manga Moveable Feast celebration of Karakuri Odette continues with a Manga Out Loud podcast devoted to the topic and Johanna Draper Carlson’s review of vols. 4 and 5. And at Experiments in Manga, Ash Brown has an interesting essay … Continue reading

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Snowy day update

Sean Gaffney takes a look at next week’s new manga, and it looks like there’s a better selection this week than last, with new volumes of Black Butler, Gakuen Alice, and Pet Shop of Horrors Tokyo; a new shonen manga, … Continue reading

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Links for new comics day

David Welsh looks at this week’s new manga at The Manga Curmudgeon, and at Manga Bookshelf he discusses the pick of the week with fellow bloggers Kate Dacey and Melinda Beasi. Brad Rice also checks out today’s new releases at … Continue reading

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Yaoi and taxes

David Welsh takes a look at the nominees for the Manga Taisho awards and notes one thing I missed: A Bride’s Story, by Kaoru Mori, has been picked up by Yen Press. Japanator’s Brad Rice talks to Lilllian Diaz-Przybyl about … Continue reading

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Catching up on our reading

Deb Aoki lists the 17 manga that made the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, and she is now taking nominations for her own best-of-the-year polls. Lori Henderson has the list of this week’s all ages comics and manga at … Continue reading

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