Category Archives: Mangablog

For those who are interested in sampling manga but don’t know where to start, Johanna at Comics Worth Reading has reposted her suggestions, with which I heartily concur. In fact, I’d say these series would form a good recommended-reading list … Continue reading →

In her latest Buzzscope column, Tania del Rio sees girls reading more shonen than shoujo manga and wonders if cultural differences have something to do with it: It makes me think about what girls in our society enjoy in terms … Continue reading →

Newsarama talks with Viz PR director Evelyn Dubocq about the company’s recent successes and their plans for 2006. Evelyn earns her salary by emitting a relentlessly positive attitude about her company and dropping a few tidbits of actual news into … Continue reading →

Publishing cartoons of Mohammed may be getting some people into trouble lately, but the lives of other religious figures have long been fair game. Vertical Publishing, having completed its publication of Osamu Tezuka’s 8-volume Buddha, is looking next at publishing … Continue reading →

You know, I used to have this problem where I confused Warren Buffet with Jimmy Buffet. Now I have a way to tell the difference: Warren Buffet is the one someone wrote a manga about—in Japanese, although the link is … Continue reading →

Ed Chavez has posted his Tokyopop Year in Review article on Anime on DVD, part of an ambitious series he started in December. It’s another solid piece, but there’s a curious omission: any mention of OEL manga, which TPop has … Continue reading →