Category Archives: Mangablog

Boogiepop doesn’t laugh Story by Kouhei Kadono Art by Kouji Ogata Seven Seas $10.99 Boogiepop doesn’t laugh is manga for grownups. Based on a phenomenally popular novel, it is more literary, less linear, and more demanding of the reader than … Continue reading →

Volume 5 of the highly addictive Death Note made its debut at number 126 on this week’s USA Today top 150 list. Volume 4 of the series made it onto the list in March, spending one week at number 118.

Asahi.com reports on the rediscovery of five works by the godfather of manga, Osamu Tezuka. And they weren’t even in Japan: Takeshi Tanikawa, an associate professor on cinema history at Waseda University, said he found the short pieces in the … Continue reading →

PW Comics Week asks yaoi manga-ka Youka Nitta, creator of Embracing Love, a question that has occasionally occurred to me: What do her parents think of her work? YN: Once I started writing it, I would often leave it lying … Continue reading →

PW Comics Week gets David Taylor to emerge from seclusion and talk to about how he started Love Manga, why he stopped (apparently David has some sort of life outside the blogosphere), and, best of all, what he plans to … Continue reading →

At “あいとゆうきのおとぎばなし” JP Meyer unpacks last month’s MIT symposium on anime and manga (podcast and transcripts at Anime Pulse). Those with a thirst for more knowledge should check out the MIT Anime Club website, which includes a list of MIT … Continue reading →