Category Archives: Mangablog

Drawn & Quarterly announced yesterday that it has acquired the license to Shigeru Mizuki’s GeGeGe no Kitaro, which they seem to be titling simply Kitaro for their release, and will publish it in 2013. They have also published Mizuki’s Onward … Continue reading →

The Manga Bookshelf team discusses their Pick of the Week. Viz will be releasing vol. 13 of Neon Genesis Evangelion in the U.S. on November 2, the same day it comes out in Japan. Deb Aoki has a heads-up for … Continue reading →

Pickings were slim last week in terms of new releases, but I made my picks at MTV Geek and Lissa Pattillo gave her take in her On the Shelf column at Otaku USA. And speaking of Otaku USA, it is … Continue reading →

The Manga Bookshelf reviewers make their picks from an unusually slim week of new manga releases. Meanwhile, Sean Gaffney looks forward to a more bountiful selection next week. Deb Aoki talks to Adam Warren, creator of Empowered, on how anime … Continue reading →

The newest addition to Viz’s Shonen Jump Alpha lineup is Kōhei Horikoshi’s sci-fi manga Sensei no Baruji (Barrage). This really shouldn’t be news, but somehow it is: ICv2 reports that Bizenghast creator M. Alice LeGrow will be paid for the … Continue reading →

I’m still in transit, blogging from the Metropolitan Lounge in Union Station, Chicago, waiting to take the Lake Shore Limited to Boston. Traveling by train gave me some time to write up my review of vols. 1-6 of The Story … Continue reading →