Category Archives: Mangablog

MangaCast member readilbert translates an article on a recent symposium on women in Asian comics. Meanwhile Ed has compiled a list of Japan’s new manga releases for May and he also translates the Japanese manga rankings for this week. The … Continue reading →

Yeah, there is some. Shaenon Garrity reaches back into the dim pre-history of translated manga (1998) and hauls out the original Mixx edition of Parasyte for the Overlooked Manga Festival. It’s a killer combination of bad art, weird lettering, and … Continue reading →

In order to catch up to the present Japanese release schedule and to prepare readers for upcoming notable changes in the main character and story arc, VIZ Media will offer three new volumes of NARUTO per-month from September through December … Continue reading →

The Wanganui Chronicle of New Zealand reported a couple of days ago that one Julie Gordon, described as a “mother of five and secondary school teacher,” checked out an allegedly dirty manga from a local library. (Dirk quickly figured out … Continue reading →

MangaCast checks out this week’s new comics, and Ed gives a peek at the e-mail discussion so we can experience the deliberations for ourselves. Vol. 16 of Fruits Basket slips from number 15 to 38 on this week’s USA Today … Continue reading →

David Welsh puts on his reporter’s hat for this week’s Flipped column and interviews several Eisner nominees, and Eisner judge Robin Brenner, about this year’s nominations. And over at Precocious Curmudgeon, he looks at this week’s new comics list through … Continue reading →