Aria Volume 5
Aria Volume 5 by Kozue Amano Reading Aria is the manga equivalent of going on a lazy exotic vacation. I previously enjoyed the first volume, but I wasn’t bowled over by the lack of plot even though the manga contains beautiful background art. I think my opinion has softened a bit, because I enjoyed reading [...]
Thankful
This Thanksgiving I am thankful for the existence of the movie The Expendables. How awesome is this?! That is something to look forward to in 2010.
Manga Gift Guide
Many manga bloggers are putting together gift guides to help people with their manga shopping this holiday season. Here’s my contribution, and I hope it helps you with some suggestions for different types of manga fans that might be on your shopping list! 1. For the younger set It can be tricky to find good [...]
Color Trilogy giveaway
Good Comics For Kids is giving away 5 sets of Kim Dong Hwa’s trilogy about a girl growing up in the Korean countryside. Click through for rules and contest details.
Liberty Liberty!
Liberty Liberty! by Hinako Takanaga This yaoi title ditches explicit sexuality in favor of character development, which results in an engaging story about two damaged people who help each other through their newfound friendship. Itaru is a runaway living in a garbage heap. Kouki is a cameraman from a low-rent cable TV station who is [...]
Libraries, manga, and graphic novels
Robin Brenner has a very interesting post up at Good Comics for Kids, where she does some number-crunching with her manga and graphic novel circulation statistics. The most popular series aren’t what you might predict, which shows why it pays to pay close attention to circulation and patron requests when doing collection development for this [...]
Amethyst and the Weirdoverse – Scare Tactics
With this post on Scare Tactics #8 we wrap up the the Convergence crossover featuring Amethyst in the Weirdoverse books. I feel like I involuntarily signed myself up for a Siberian death march and I only have a few more miles to go before I can collapse. Scare Tactics is a rock band of monsters. [...]
First Week of Manga Views
If you want to keep up with what’s going on over at Manga Views, I have a blog over there where I post about site updates and improvements. I’m happy to see so many people registering and using the site. Our manga review list has gotten so long, I switched it to a paginated format. [...]
Twelve Kingdoms Volume 3: The Vast Spread of the Seas
Twelve Kingdoms Volume 3: The Vast Spread of the Seas by Fuyumi Ono The Twelve Kingdoms books are the only series of light novels that I follow with great enthusiasm. I like the Twelve Kingdoms anime quite a bit, but since the story didn’t conclude in the anime so I look to the novels to [...]
20th Century Boys Volume 5
20th Century Boys Volume 5 by Naoki Urasawa Everytime I pick this series up I’m reminded again how great it is. Urasawa always throws in surprising plot elements, and it is rare now for me to be genuinely surprised when reading manga. After going into hiding Kenji sends out an inspiring call to action to [...]
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