Category Archives: Mangablog

SigIKKI chat, nemu-nemu reaches 500

nemu-nemu reaches a big milestone—the 500th episode. Jason Yadao lists his favorite episodes at Otaku Ohana. Japanator’s Brad Rice talks to Viz’s Leyla Aker about their SigIKKI online manga site. Also: This week’s new releases. David Welsh looks at the … Continue reading

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Tezuka goes to the Smithsonian

ICv2 reports that comic and graphic novel sales were down in October, and they post the top 300 graphic novels in the direct market. David Welsh looks at this week’s new releases and moves on to the letter E in … Continue reading

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School of manga

Kate Dacey looks at this week’s new manga and finds plenty to please the ladies at The Manga Critic. David Welsh looks at Moyasimon, Genshiken, and other manga with college settings in this week’s Flipped column, and he follows that … Continue reading

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Quick Monday roundup

Lori Henderson rounds up the week’s manga news at Manga Xanadu. Deb Aoki and the Comics Village team take a look at recent and upcoming manga releases. Alex Hoffman muses on the place of one-shot manga stories in the Western … Continue reading

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Saturday sampler

Lori Henderson lists this week’s all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids. There are plenty of familiar names on this week’s New York Times manga best-seller list. Erica Friedman posts the latest yuri news at Okazu. Also, Erica … Continue reading

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Deep Thoughts Thursday

The Eastern Edge translates an interview with Moebius about manga in general and Naoki Urasawa in particular. (Doesn’t Moebuis sound like some sort of noir superhero—like Rorschach, only maybe he forms a one-sided strip or something? But he’s really a … Continue reading

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