News and reviews for the discerning manga fan
Today, May 12th, is Magnificent 49er Moto Hagio’s sixty-third birthday. Hagio made her professional debut forty-three years ago with the short story “Lulu to Mimi” (1969), which appeared in the pages of Nakayoshi. Over the next ten years, she contributed dozens of stories to shojo magazines, including “November Gymnasium” (1971), one of the first examples [...]
Over at Otaku Champloo, the awesome Khursten Santos has just posted an announcement for this month’s Manga Movable Feast. The ostensible subject is Oishinbo, an epic series documenting the father-son rivalry between two food critics. Bloggers are also encouraged to write about other food manga (Khurtsen provides a handy list of titles that have been [...]
Found via MTV Geek: Tokyopop has formed a partnership with RightStuf and Gentosha Comics to publish the first three volumes of Hetalia: Axis Powers. Tokyopop released the first two volumes shortly before closing its North American publishing division last year. Since then, CEO Stu Levy has been dropping hints on Facebook that Tokyopop was interested [...]
One of the perks of running a Manga Movable Feast is that I have a chance to read everyone’s contributions. Over the last seven days, I’ve read dozens of terrific essays about titles as varied as Dorohedoro and solanin, some at sites I’d never visited before. I didn’t always see eye to eye with other [...]
We’re in the home stretch, with only the dessert course left to go! If you have a link for the archive, or a new essay for the feast, please email me. (See instructions below.) I will be collecting submissions over the weekend, and will post the final round-up on Monday, April 30th at 9:00 AM. [...]
Today’s menu includes an essay about marketing, a paean to the VIZ Signature line, and a character study of a Naoki Urasawa hero. First up is Daniella Orihuela-Gruber, who tackles a difficult subject: marketing VIZ Signature titles. As Daniella observes, the VIZ Signature line could be a great fit with comic store clientele. “Viz Signature [...]
Hey, gang, we’re approaching the midway point for this month’s feast! If you have a contribution, please let me know — I’m happy to add older entries to the archive, and to feature new reviews, essays, and podcasts in one of the daily round-ups. See below for further details about how you can contribute to [...]
Today’s selection is a little lighter than yesterday’s but every bit as tasty! First up is Lori Henderson, who tackles the first volume of Dorohedoro at Manga Xanadu. “What I really enjoy about Dorohedoro is the fact it doesn’t take itself too seriously,” she notes. “While we do see Caiman and Nikaido continue the search [...]
Welcome to the April Manga Movable Feast! This month’s topic is a departure for us. In previous months, we’ve focused on individual artists, series, or genres; this month, however, we’re tackling the VIZ Signature imprint, a catalog of forty-three titles that run the gamut from Kazuo Umezu’s The Drifting Classroom to Natsume Ono’s Tesoro. (I [...]
Is the third time the charm? That’s the question on this critic’s mind, as JManga announced that it will be releasing the first volume of Your & My Secret on Thursday, April 26th. Long-time manga readers may remember that Ai Morinaga’s gender-bending comedy has been licensed before, first by ADV Manga, which released one volume, [...]
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