Category Archives: Mangablog

Viz goes global, pirates could go legit

Viz Media announced a slate of new kids’ manga yesterday, and interestingly, several of the titles are not Japanese but global, including a series of graphic novels based on the Mr. Men and Little Miss books. For slightly older readers, … Continue reading

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Awards lists, short attention spans, and cheap labor

This year’s Eisner Award nominees have been announced, and Kate Dacey helpfully pulls out the nominated manga for us. Let’s just say it’s a good year for Viz, although the judges did spread the love quite a bit. Jason Thompson … Continue reading

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Just another girl-meets-girl manga

At The Hooded Utilitarian, Erica Friedman explores “Story A,” the basic story that gets told over and over again in yuri manga. Melinda Beasi rounds up all the Korean-comics news in her latest Manhwa Monday post at Manga Bookshelf. Melinda … Continue reading

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Boys will be girls and girls will be … girls

I’m reading an advance copy of Wandering Son, the newest entry in Fantagraphics’ manga line, right now, and it’s amazing. The book won’t be out until later this year, but check out this preview at Comics Should Be Good. Jason … Continue reading

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Love Hina and Tokyo Mew Mew are back!

Kodansha Comics announced their fall lineup yesterday, and it includes two venerable manga that were first published by Tokyopop back in the day: Love Hina and Tokyo Mew Mew. Both will be in omnibus editions (Love Hina will be three … Continue reading

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Manga picks and pans

David Welsh makes his picks from this week’s new releases at The Manga Curmudgeon, and he joins fellow bloggers Melinda Beasi and Kate Dacey in a conversation about their pick of the week at Manga Bookshelf. David also reaches the … Continue reading

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