Late to the feast

While I was slacking off last week, the Manga Moveable Feast was going on. This month’s feast celebrates Viz’s Shojo Beat imprint; I have been posting the reviews in the usual spot, but here’s a roundup of posts on host site Manga Report:

Monday roundup
Tuesday roundup
Shojo Beat roundtable discussion
Wednesday roundup
Friday roundup
Final roundup

The Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their Picks of the Week.

Erica Friedman brings us the latest in yuri in her Yuri Network News roundup.

Kate Dacey looks at this week’s new arrivals at JManga, including her pick of the week, Shibainuku-San.

News from Japan: After 19 years, Blade of the Immortal is coming to an end in next February’s issue of Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine. Also coming into the final stretch: GT-R (Great Transporter Ryuji), Tohru Fujisawa’s GTO spinoff.

Reviews: Carlo Santos rounds up the latest releases in his Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Ash Brown discusses another week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga. The Manga Bookshelf team files their latest set of Bookshelf Briefs. Other reviews of note:

Anna on vols. 1 and 2 of Flower in a Storm and vols. 1 and 2 of Sugar Princess: Skating to Win (Manga Report)
Anna on vols. 1-4 of Full Moon O Sagashite (Manga Report)
Anna on vol. 10 of Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden (Manga Report)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 4 of GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Anna on vols. 1-4 of Gentlemen’s Alliance+ (Manga Report)
Shannon Fay on vol. 9 of Nabari no Ou (Kuriousity)
Connie on vol. 11 of Natsume’s Book of Friends (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lori Henderson on vols. 1-5 of Otomen (Manga Xanadu)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Okazu)
Lori Henderson on Wanted (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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