Category Archives: Mangablog

David “Love Manga” Taylor, that is! And he’s jumping right in with a discussion of the yaoi manga issue that we’ve been muttering about all week. As always, he has a cogent take on the matter. Welcome back, David! We … Continue reading →

MangaBlogCast #2 is up at the MangaCast site, with a special exclusive report on AnimeNEXT by our own Jack Tse. ComiPress follows up with interviews with Jack, Ed Chavez, and me. Here are the links for the stories in this … Continue reading →

Naruto drops to number 79 on the USA Today booklist, down from 42 last week. Two from PW Comics Week: Shakespeare gets the manga treatment, from John Wiley, a publisher better known for calculus textbooks than sequential art. Still, the … Continue reading →

Tony Salvaggio reviews Basilisk and Dogby Walks Alone in Calling Manga Island, and finds plenty to like about both of them. Pata tips us to the next manga innovation: lawyer manga Ed Chavez has been busy: At MangaCast, he reviews … Continue reading →

Del Rey has posted its release calendar for the rest of 2006 (pdf file). I could get all snarky about being six months late, but hey, at least they did it! Here’s a sneak peek at their new series: Not … Continue reading →

The administrator at the Princess Tutu Livejournal Community lays down the law: Princess Tutu is not magical girl shoujo. This post is actually about anime, but I think the points apply pretty well to the manga (I haven’t read this … Continue reading →