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Philip brings us a roundup of links from Day 3 of the Manga Moveable Feast, which this month features The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.

Erica Friedman has news of three more yuri titles coming to JManga.

At Fist of the North Star, Milo takes a look at a side of Jiro Taniguchi that is unfamiliar to those of us who read his work in English: The side that delights in drawing men punching other men.

Three Steps Over Japan takes a look at Bessatsu Shonen Magajin, the magazine home of Attack on Titan, Animal Land, and The Flowers of Evil.

Reviews: Ash Brown looks back on a week of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 13 of Bakuman (I Reads You)
Kristin on vols. 42 and 43 of Bleach (Comic Attack)
Kate O’Neil on vol. 6 of Dorohedoro (The Fandom Post)
Ken Haley on vol. 12 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Sequential Ink)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 22 of Ranma 1/2 (Blogcritics)
Alex Hoffman on Wolf (Manga Widget)
Lori Henderson on vols. 6 and 7 of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Good Comics for Kids)

This month’s Manga Moveable Feast is being hosted by Philip of the Eeeper’s Choice Podcast, and he has jumped right in with an overview of the series as a whole, individual overviews of vols. 1-4 and vols. 5-8, and link roundups for Day 1 and Day 2.

The Manga Village team picks the best of the past week’s new releases.

Jason Thompson is going with a Seven Deadly Sins theme in his House of 1000 Manga column at ANN, and this week he goes with “Lust,” counting down seven sexy manga that are more perversion than porn.

Erica Friedman presents a new episode of Yuri Network News at Okazu.

Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss their favorite yaoi in their latest BL Bookrack column at Manga Bookshelf.

Also at Manga Bookshelf, Matt Blind looks at some up-and-coming manga in his latest Manga Radar feature.

And finally, Manga Bookshelf is polling its readers to see if they want a forum. Vote now or forever hold your peace.

News from Japan: According to the retailer Mangaoh, vol. 15 of Gunslinger Girl will be the last one. Manga-ka Yoshinori Kobayashi, best known for his manga defending Japan’s role in World War II, has called for Japan to abandon nuclear power, aligning himself with a movement that mostly occupies the opposite end of the political spectrum from his usual roost.

Reviews

Lori Henderson on vols. 12 and 13 of Bakuman (Manga Xanadu)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of A Devil and Her Love Song (I Reads You)
John Rose on vol. 3 of D.Gray-Man (The Fandom Post)
John on issue 14 of GEN (AnimeNation Anime News)
Laura on vol. 1 of Jiu Jiu (Heart of Manga)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kazoku (Stop, Drop, and Read)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 20 of Kaze Hikaru (The Comic Book Bin)
Ash Brown on vol. 1 of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Experiments in Manga)
Anna on vol. 8 of Library Wars: Love and War (Manga Report)
AstroNerdBoy on vols. 7 and 8 of Rin-ne (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 6 of Sailor Moon (Blogcritics)
TSOTE on The Three-Eyed One (Three Steps Over Japan)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 11 of Toriko (Kuriousity)
Jocelyne Allen on vol. 1 of Wet Moon (Brain Vs Book)
Linda on Wolf (Anime Diet)

New manga time! I check out the latest releases at MTV Geek, and Lissa Pattillo gives her picks in her On the Shelf column at Otaku USA. Sean Gaffney looks forward to next week’s new release—yeah, that’s not a typo. Midtown Comics has just one new manga title next week.

It’s not manga, but definitely of interest to manga readers: Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda, the husband-and-wife team behind Yokai Attack, talk up their new book, Yurei Attack! The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide, at Crunchyroll.

Ash Brown talks about buying manga at RightStuf.

Shuho Sato, who has experimented with a number of different publication strategies for his Say Hello to Black Jack, is going to stop enforcing his copyright on the series after September 15, allowing people to copy, remix, and reuse the manga. He is even going so far as to allow a copier at an upcoming exhibit of his work, so people can copy the pages.

News from Japan: A woman who submitted manga to Shonen Jump claims that an editor touched her and made suggestive comments to her on two different occasions. The Sept. 5 issue of Margaret will feature Jitsuroku! Fudanjuku Monogatari, a 12-page, full-color manga by Arina Tanemura. Umineko When They Cry artist Sōichirō will draw a new manga based on the game Rose Guns Days for Square Enix’s Gangan Joker magazine.

Reviews

Wolfen Moondaughter on vol. 11 of Arata: The Legend (Sequential Tart)
Karen Maeda on vol. 10 of Dengeki Daisy (Sequential Tart)
Rebecca Silverman on vol. 1 of Soul Eater Not! (ANN)

Rebecca Silverman gets the interview we all dream of, a sit-down with Naoki Urasawa (Monster, Pluto, 20th Century Boys).

The latest Manga Out Loud podcast features guests Melinda Beasi, Kate Dacey, William Flanagan, and Shaenon Garrity discussing CLAMP with host Ed Sizemore.

Matt Blind compiles the big list of manga best-sellers for the past week, and he looks forward to some new manga releases in the next six months in his Manga Radar column.

At Blog of the North Star, Milo kicks off a multi-part appreciation of Ken Ishikawa, who started his career as Go Nagai’s assistant.

Jeff Blagdon reports in from Comiket, in a story that makes me sorta glad I didn’t go but happy that he did.

The Asahi Shimbun reports on JManga’s translation contest—and quotes Deb Aoki.

News from Japan: Robotics;Notes – Rival Legacy, the fourth spin-off the visual Robotics;Notes visual novel, has launched in Ultra Jump. Manga-ka Azure Konno (Koe de Oshigoto) and Ayami Kazama (The World I Create) announced their marriage via Twitter yesterday.

Reviews: Ash Brown looks back on a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Lori Henderson on vol. 13 of Black Bird (Manga Village)
Kristin on vols. 38 and 39 of Bleach (Comic Attack)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 5 of A Certain Scientific Railgun (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Milo on Doll the Hotel Detective (Blog of the North Star)
Ken Haley on Dolls Don’t Cry (Sequential Ink)
John Rose on vol. 6 of Kobato (The Fandom Post)
Erica Friedman on Metersarete Kya (Okazu)
Alex Hoffman on MW (Manga Widget)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 10 of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (The Comic Book Bin)
Matthew Warner on vol. 5 of Psyren (The Fandom Post)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Soul Eater NOT (Kuriousity)
Kristin on vol. 11 of Toriko (Comic Attack)

The Manga Village team gives their thoughts on the past week’s new releases, and the Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss the relative merits of this week’s new manga.

Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss the end of 13th Boy in their latest Off the Shelf column at Manga Bookshelf.

Erica Friedman rounds up the latest yuri happenings in this week’s episode of Yuri Network News at Okazu.

Tony Yao looks at the laziness of Nara Shikamaru (of Naruto) and how that can be a good thing.

Johanna Draper Carlson has a shopping tip that could save you money if you’re looking for vol. 1 of Wandering Son.

Three Steps Over Japan takes a look at the monthly magazine Dengeki Bunko.

Congratulations to Ash Brown on two years of Experiments in Manga!

Reviews: New volumes of Ai Ore, Bunny Drop, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica are among the short reviews in this week’s Bookshelf Briefs column at Manga Bookshelf.

Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 45 of Bleach (The Comic Book Bin)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 6 of Bunny Drop (Kuriousity)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Dragon Knights (Blogcritics)
Jocelyne Allen on Hon no Sukoshi no Mizu (Brain Vs. Book)
Anna on vols. 1 and 2 of Late Advent (Manga Report)
Anna on vol. 10 of Oresama Teacher and vol. 4 of A Devil and Her Love Song (Manga Report)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 21 of Ranma 1/2 (Blogcritics)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of Starting with a Kiss (I Reads You)

JManga celebrates its first birthday today by launching a new site, JManga7, that will carry a wide variety of manga by the chapter. The site will be updated daily, and as volumes are completed they will be taken off the site and made available for purchase on JManga. There’s no content up yet—that will be along in October—but you can pre-register now, which will enter you in a contest for a Nexus 7 tablet or a free subscription. I talked JManga business manager Robert Newman about the new site at Comic-Con, so check that interview for more details.

Also, if you sign up with JManga today, they will give you 600 points for free—sort of a reverse birthday present.

Volume 14 of Neon Genesis Evangelion will apparently be the last, according to the French publisher.

Jason Thompson takes a look at the classic manga Trigun in his latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

Helen McCarthy takes a look at Charles Wirgman, who published the satirical magazine Japan Punch in the 19th century and helped shape Japanese cartooning forever.

I know we’re preaching to the converted here, but in case you need more reinforcement, Molly McIsaac explains why you should read manga.

News from Japan: Sakuran creator Moyoco Anno is working on a new series, set in France, and she will discuss the details in a lecture at Ikebukuro Community College in December. Kazuya Minekura will go back to work on Wild Adapter next spring, after a two-year break due to health reasons.

Reviews: Carlo Santos takes a quick look at the newest releases in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN.

Lissa Pattillo on vol. 13 of Bakuman (Kuriousity)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 44 of Bleach (The Comic Book Bin)
Anonymous on vols. 1 and 2 of The Flowers of Evil (Stumptown Trade Review)
Steve Bennett on vol. 1 of Genshiken: Second Season (ICv2)
Kristin on vol. 14 of Vampire Knight (Comic Attack)