Category Archives: Mangablog

Tokyopop is celebrating the new year with lots of Princess Ai-ness, from novels to tattoos. Full scoop after the cut. (Warning: Contains excessive punnage and a reference to “poetry by D.J. Milky.”) TOKYOPOP LOOKS Ai-HEAD AT 2007 Princess Ai & … Continue reading →

With its talking cats and wandering samurais, Japanese manga is taking France’s booming comic-book market by storm, challenging home-grown icons like Asterix as young readers lap up the eastern fare. Talking cats? Is Where’s Michael? that much bigger in France … Continue reading →

ICv2 has a bit more on the yaoi-at-Wal-Mart story (they were selling Yaoi Hentai on their website but yanked it as soon as they realized it), including this: The folks at the Consumerist Website seemed more interested in catching Wal-Mart, … Continue reading →

The Brothers Elric return to the USA Today Booklist: Vol. 11 of Full Metal Alchemist moves up from number 184 last week to 133 this week, hopefully taking down a couple of diet books and Junie B. Jones stories along … Continue reading →

Stu Levy and Lillian Diaz-Pryzbyl talk about manga on Japanese TV. (It’s mostly in English, and the Japanese parts are subtitled.) Stu pontificates a bit, but Lillian is very interesting on the translation and adaptation process. Manganews translates a Japanese … Continue reading →

In this week’s Flipped, David Welsh uses the tankoubon of Love & Rockets as a jumping-off point for a meditation on the importance of design. Mark of the Succubus artist Irene Flores chats with a local reporter. At Comicsnob, Matt … Continue reading →