Quick Monday roundup

Lissa Pattillo rounds up some manga news briefs, including Viz’s announcement that it will continue to re-release both Skip Beat! and Hana-Kimi as three-in-one omnibus volumes.

Matt Blind lists the manga best-sellers (online sales) for the week just ended. The latest volume of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX tops the list, and Sailor Moon takes five of the top ten slots.

Ed Sizemore reports in from Otakon.

Reviews

Melanie on 5 Centimeters Per Second, vol. 2 of Flowers of Evil, and Sakuran (About Heroes)
Arwen Spicer on Banana Fish (The Geek Girl Project)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 5 of Dawn of the Arcana (The Comic Book Bin)
Noah Berlatsky on Dokebi Bride (The Hooded Utilitarian)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 2 of Gate 7 (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 13 of GTO: The Early Years (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 10 of Kamisama Kiss (The Comic Book Bin)
Jaili on My Darling Kitten Hair (Dear Author)
Lori Henderson on vol. 3 of No Longer Human (Manga Xanadu)

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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