S.A (Special A) Volume 1
S.A (Special A) Volume 1 by Maki Minami (amazon) S.A. is a manga that ends up being crushed under the weight of its too familiar premise. Hikari has been obsessed with the idea of beating her rival Kei since childhood. Both of their fathers trained them in professional wrestling moves and when a young Hikari [...]
Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #3 (second series)
The cover for this issue proclaims “In the heat of battle….FIRE JADE!” Fire Jade is standing triumphantly on top of a volcano. Amethyst is summoning up some magic to fight her. Princess Emerald seems to be hiding behind some rocks, biting her glove. Lord Moonstone is looking rather disheveled and the Diamond Priest is taking [...]
Toshokan SensÅ – Library War Episode 8
I’ve fallen way behind in my Library War blogging. Iku is called before a tribunal because the ratfink Sumigawa falsely named her as a collaborator. He’s unreachable at the moment, because he is allegedly sick and resting at home. Iku’s friends wonder if this is the work of the horrible Administrative Faction of the Library [...]
Minx Canceled
DC has canceled Minx, their YA line aimed at girls. I know some public libraries were adding Minx books to their graphic novel collections. It didn’t seem like there was much in the way of marketing for the line, and I’m not surprised that it is folding. In some ways it seemed like a halfhearted [...]
Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #2 (second series)
The cover of this issue features Amethyst on her flying unicorn. She’s in the clouds with castle Amethyst in the distance. She’s surrounded by a ring of glittering gems. The title of this issue is “Sleepwalkers”. Amy has fallen into a deep slumber on Earth, and the spirit-form of Amethyst has journeyed to the Gemworld [...]
Time Stranger Kyoko
Time Stranger Kyoko by Arina Tanemura (amazon) Time Stranger Kyoko has a somewhat crowded array of plot elements: The heroine Kyoko is a princess living in the future who goes to school undercover, pretending to be a normal girl. Her father the King wants her to take up her royal responsibilities, but she wants to [...]
Horrifying News from MTV
Puff Daddy/Diddy created girl group Danity Kane is releasing a comic. This was the paragraph that made my brain shriek: “Right now, it’s just a regular comic, but we want to do a manga issue. We love manga and anime,†Richard said. “’Full Metal Alchemist’ is the bomb, and we are such junkies for ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ [...]
Amethyst Princess of Gemworld #1 (second series)
This is the first issue of the second run of Amethyst. This series started out ok, but later issues pulled Amethyst into DC continuity (Crisis on Infinite Earths, etc) and it didn’t finish very well. The cover shows Amy changing into Amethyst as she arrives on the Gemworld by stepping through a magical portal. Unfortunately [...]
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Forest of Gray City
Forest of Gray City Volumes 1 and 2 by Jung-hyun Uhm (amazon) Forest of Gray City has been on my “to read” list for a while. Since reading so much manga about kids in high school can sometimes get a little old, I try to keep an eye out for stories featuring characters in other [...]
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