MangaBlog

Lissa Pattillo picks the best of the latest manga releases in her On the Shelf column at Otaku USA. The Manga Village team reviews their picks as well.

And the Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their pick of this week’s new titles at Midtown Comics.

Check out the trailer for Yen Press’s Interview with the Vampire: Claudia’s Story.

Kate Dacey has a nice little Q&A on the history of modern manga at The Bubblegum Post. Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, Kate Dacey joins their roundtable on the worst comics ever with her take on Gandhi: A Manga Biography.

Jason Thompson devotes this week’s House of 1000 Manga column to the totally awesome Genju no Seiza.

Erica Friedman posts the latest Yuri Network News update at Okazu.

Reviews: It’s time for Bookshelf Briefs at Manga Bookshelf. Ash Browh has the weekly manga report at Experiments in Manga. Other reviews of note:

John Rose on vol. 10 of Black Butler (The Fandom Post)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 46 of Bleach (The Comic Book Bin)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 7 of Dorohedoro (I Reads You)
Milo on vols. 1-4 of Fist of the Blue Sky (Blog of the North Star)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 5 of Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll (The Comic Book Bin)
Adam Stephanides on vols. 1 and 2 of I Am the Beatles (Boku Wa Biitoruzu) (Completely Futile)
Brigid Alverson on vol. 1 of Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries (MTV Geek)
Kate O’Neil on vol. 13 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (The Fandom Post)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 63 of One Piece (The Comic Book Bin)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Oreimo (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 13 of Otomen (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Manga Xanadu)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 4 of Toradora (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Anna on vols. 1 and 2 of Twelve Hour Ruler (Manga Report)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 10 of Twin Spica (Blogcritics)
Connie on vol. 7 of Tyrant Falls in Love (Slightly Biased Manga)
Ash Brown on Wolf (Experiments in Manga)

Yen Press has licensed Yoshiki Tonogai’s horror manga Doubt, which it will publish in omnibus form; the series is up to volume 5 in Japan.

The next chapter of Barrage to run in Weekly Shonen Jump will be the last, which means that the series will wind up for North American readers of Shonen Jump Alpha two weeks later.

Sean Gaffney takes a look at next week’s new manga releases.

Laura takes a look at the newest shoujo series heading our way in September at Heart of Manga.

Three Steps Over Japan continues its barrage of magazine posts with commentary on Weekly Young Jump and G-Fantasy.

News from Japan: Tachibana Higuchi is wrapping up Gakuen Alice, which has been running for ten years now; the final chapter will appear in an upcoming issue of Hana to Yume.

Reviews

Sean Gaffney on vol. 6 of Bunny Drop (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo (Okazu)
Anna on vol. 1 of Lady Lady (Manga Report)
Drew McCabe on vol. 5 of Psyren (Comic Attack)
Ken Haley on vol. 6 of Rurouni Kenshin (VizBig edition) (Sequential Ink)
Alex Hoffman on vol. 1 of Soul Eater NOT (Manga Widget)

ICv2 reports that Hasbro will not be releasing the Duel Masters manga in the U.S. in conjunction with its Kaijudo trading card game (which is a reboot of the original Duel Masters) because they want people to follow the new version, not the older one.

Bandai Entertainment, which announced it would stop publishing new manga and anime last January, has announced it will discontinue sales of manga and anime as of this fall.

Dave Ferraro and Patrick Markfort discuss two Shigeru Mizuki manga, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths and NonNonBa, in their latest podcast at Comics-and-More.

Three Steps Over Japan takes a look at Comic Ryuu.

News from Japan: Dance in the Vampire Bund is returning to Comic Flapper for a new mini-series, to be followed by a new second story arc. The series Dolls, by manga-ka duo naked ape (Switch) will end in the November issue of Monthly Comic Zero-Sum.

Reviews

Kate O’Neil on chapters 12 and 13 of Barrage (The Fandom Post)
Kate Haddock on Blue Exorcist (The Collegian)
John Rose on vol. 1 of The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-Chan (The Fandom Post)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo (Okazu)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 23 of Ranma 1/2 (Blogcritics)

At the Eeeper’s Choice Podcast site, Phillip wraps up the Kurosagi Corpse Deliver Service edition of the Manga Moveable Feast with an overview of vols. 9-12 and a final roundup of posts.

And now on to the next one: Anna will host the next MMF, which will focus on Shojo Beat manga, at her site, Manga Report. And she’s kicking it off with a manga giveaway!

Erica Friedman brings us the latest Yuri Network News update and post what looks like the beginning of a series on the history of Yuri.

The Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their Picks of the Week, and Matt Blind counts down the latest Manga Bestsellers (online sales).

The Manga Villagers make the best of last week’s slim pickings.

With Japanese anti-piracy laws possibly threatening posts that include manga images, Three Steps Over Japan kicks into overdrive with inside looks at three manga magazines: Monthly Zenon, Monthly Comic Alive, and Comic Heaven.

News from Japan: Good news for fans of Sherlock: Young Ace will launch a manga series based on the BBC show.

Reviews: It’s Monday, time for a new set of Bookshelf Briefs at Manga Bookshelf! Ash Brown shares a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Angelic Layer (Blogcritics)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 14 of Bamboo Blade (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Carlo Santos on vols. 44 and 45 of Bleach (ANN)
Matthew Alexander on vol. 20 of Claymore (The Fandom Post)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 6 of Durarara!! (Kuriousity)
Nicola on vol. 4 of Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll (Back to Books)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 6 of Itsuwaribito (The Comic Book Bin)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 3 of Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Reviews)
Drew McCabe on vols. 56 and 57 of Naruto (Comic Attack)
Lori Henderson on Olympos (Manga Xanadu)
TSOTE on vol. 7 of Saibara-Dake (Three Steps Over Japan)
John Rose on vol. 8 of Tenjho Tenge (The Fandom Post)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 11 of Toriko (The Comic Book Bin)

It may be the last week of summer vacation, but there are plenty of new manga to get you through the long weekend, as I observed on MTV Geek. Sean Gaffney checks out a bountiful list of next week’s new manga.

Shaenon Garrity fills in for Jason Thompson on this week’s House of 1000 Manga column at ANN, with a discussion of Tokyopop’s short-lived josei manga imprint Passion Fruit.

Philip wraps up this month’s Manga Moveable Feast with roundups of days 5 and 6 of posts about The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.

Ash Brown is giving away a copy of vol. 1 of Read or Dream at Experiments in Manga.

Reviews

Lissa Pattillo on vol. 12 of 13th Boy (Kuriousity)
Lori Henderson on vol. 5 of Ai Ore (Manga Village)
Erica Friedman on vol. 7 of Aoi Hana (Okazu)
John Rose on vol. 3 of Gate 7 (The Fandom Post)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 8 of Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (The Comic Book Bin)
John Rose on vol. 1 of Oreimo (The Fandom Post)
Michelle Smith and Melinda Beasi on Sakuran (Manga Bookshelf)

At Eeeper’s Choice, Philip rounds up the links for Day 4 of the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service edition of the Manga Moveable Feast.

Erica Friedman discusses how yuri, unlike all other manga genres, has broken free of the standard manga demographics.

News from Japan: Duel Masters Rev., a manga adaptation of the Duel Masters game, launches this week in Shonen Sunday. GTO creator Tohru Fujisawa and his collaborators have ended their manga Hachikō-Mae -another side-, which ran in the digital magazine Dengeki Comic Japan.

Reviews: Carlo Santos delivers the verdict on a stack of recent releases in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN.

Connie on vol. 21 of 20th Century Boys (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate O’Neil on vol. 4 of The Betrayal Knows My Name (The Fandom Post)
Sheena McNeil on vols. 46 and 47 of Bleach (Sequential Tart)
Connie on vol. 1 of Castle Mango (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 20 of Claymore (Slightly Biased Manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 3 of The Earl and the Fairy (The Comic Book Bin)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 3 of Gate 7 (Kuriousity)
Wolfen Moondaughter on vol. 20 of Hayate the Combat Butler (Sequential Tart)
Connie on Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 7 of Ooku (Slightly Biased Manga)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 9 of Rin-ne (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 6 of Sailor Moon (Blogcritics)