Category Archives: Mangablog

At The Comics Journal, Ryan Holmberg pens a fascinating piece on the effect of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on the manga industry. In addition to explaining how Japanese comics distribution works—and why the disaster hit it so hard—Holmberg … Continue reading →

The Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their picks of the week, and there’s lots of love for Kodansha. Also, David Welsh makes his picks from this week’s new releases. Those teases at JManga added 12 new titles to the site, including … Continue reading →

I rounded up the highlights of the past week’s manga news at MTV Geek, and Erica Friedman updates us with another edition of Yuri Network News at Okazu. The Manga Village team checks out the latest batch of new releases. … Continue reading →

At Robot 6, I reported on Digital Manga’s move to bring Harlequin manga to the Nook. Daniella Orihuela-Gruber contemplates one of the downsides of print manga—you have to physically move them when you move. Viz editor Nancy Thistlethwaite confirmed that … Continue reading →

New at MTV Geek: My review of vol. 1 of Cage of Eden, one of the new series from Kodansha. Sean Gaffney is as puzzled by the shipping lists as I am, but he takes a stab at next week’s … Continue reading →

It’s good news, bad news for The Yaoi Review: The bad news is that blogger Jennifer LeBlanc is shutting the site down; it was an invaluable source of yaoi news, well-written, accurate, and investigative as well as affectionate toward its … Continue reading →