SJA to run Hunter x Hunter flashback story

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

It’s Pick of the Week time at Manga Bookshelf!

Shonen Jump Alpha will publish Kurapika Tsuioku-hen, a two-chapter Hunter x Hunter flashback arc; the first chapters is in this week’s Japanese Shonen Jump.

ANN looks at the manga best-sellers in U.S. bookstores last month; Naruto was the top seller, at number 7 on the graphic novels best-seller list.

Otaku News has a (NSFW!) interview with tentacle manga creator Toshio Maeda.

Reviews: The Manga Bookshelf team has some short takes on recent releases in their latest Bookshelf Briefs. Ash Brown sums up a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Sean Gaffney on Danza (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of Demon Love Spell (Manga Xanadu)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 1 of Genshiken: Second Season (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Alex Hoffman on vol. 1 of Heroman (Manga Widget)
Johanna Draper Carlson on Kaoru Mori: Anything and Something (Comics Worth Reading)
Kristin on Kaoru Mori: Anything and Something (Comic Attack)
Sean Kleefeld on vol. 1 of Real (Kleefeld on Comics)
Katherine Hanson on vol. 3 of Paros no Ken (Yuri no Boke)
Anna N on vol. 8 of The Story of Saiunkoku (Manga Report)
Michael Buntag on vol. 1 of Sundome (NonSensical Words)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 11 of Yotsuba&!, vol. 13 of Otomen, and vol. 13 of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Comics Worth Reading)

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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