Category Archives: Mangablog

Shaenon Garrity’s latest Overlooked Manga Festival features Fumi Yoshinaga’s Flower of Life. After almost three years, ADV Manga finally updated their website. The Mainichi Daily News has a brief article on Comiket. (Via ComiPress.) Translator Tomo Kimura points out a … Continue reading →

We have three manga earning spots on this week’s USA Today Top 150 best-sellers: vol. 17 of Fruits Basket debuts at number 99, vol. 20 of Bleach slips from 85 to 140, and vol. 14 of Fullmetal Alchemist checks in … Continue reading →

Congratulations to blogger extraordinaire Erica Friedman on the fifth anniversary of her blog, Okazu, and her 800th post, which coincide with a number of other milestones. As a latecomer to her blog, I was delighted by her explanation for the … Continue reading →

Comicsnob posts this week’s manga watch list. Comics in the Classroom has an interesting interview with Jason Thompson about his upcoming Complete Guide to Manga. Meanwhile, the Japan Times harrumphs that grownups these days are acting like a bunch of … Continue reading →

The Weekly Recon is up, with a look at this week’s manga and brief reviews of recent titles from the always perceptive Katherine Dacey-Tsuei, at PopCultureShock. David Welsh picks the gems from the latest Previews. Should comics reviewers include art … Continue reading →

It seems like they have been around forever, but the Yen Press folks officially launched at SDCC. Below the cut, a press release about their latest acquisitions. YEN PRESS DEBUTS AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON AND ANNOUNCES SIMULTANEOUS US/UK RELEASE OF … Continue reading →