Yuri comes into its own

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

At Eeeper’s Choice, Philip rounds up the links for Day 4 of the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service edition of the Manga Moveable Feast.

Erica Friedman discusses how yuri, unlike all other manga genres, has broken free of the standard manga demographics.

News from Japan: Duel Masters Rev., a manga adaptation of the Duel Masters game, launches this week in Shonen Sunday. GTO creator Tohru Fujisawa and his collaborators have ended their manga Hachikō-Mae -another side-, which ran in the digital magazine Dengeki Comic Japan.

Reviews: Carlo Santos delivers the verdict on a stack of recent releases in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN.

Connie on vol. 21 of 20th Century Boys (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate O’Neil on vol. 4 of The Betrayal Knows My Name (The Fandom Post)
Sheena McNeil on vols. 46 and 47 of Bleach (Sequential Tart)
Connie on vol. 1 of Castle Mango (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 20 of Claymore (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 3 of The Earl and the Fairy (The Comic Book Bin)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 3 of Gate 7 (Kuriousity)
Wolfen Moondaughter on vol. 20 of Hayate the Combat Butler (Sequential Tart)
Connie on Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 7 of Ooku (Slightly Biased Manga)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 9 of Rin-ne (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 6 of Sailor Moon (Blogcritics)

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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