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 [...]
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 [...]
Like many folks, I was so busy swooning over news of Thermae Romae and Paradise Kiss that I didn’t realize Dark Horse also unveiled new licenses last week. Of the five titles DH announced, two seemed promising. The first, Blood-C, is the latest installment of Blood: The Last Vampire, and features character designs by CLAMP’s [...]
In a recent Facebook post, Vertical, Inc. noted that Twin Spica may be its first manga to go out of print. “Sales have been poor, and honestly other publishers possibly would have canceled it instead of incurring loses to finish it,” Marketing Director Ed Chavez explained to disappointed fans. “But sadly there was no word [...]
If your chief criticism of John Carter was “not enough samurai,” then Jonathan Clements would like to introduce you to Hitoshi Yoshioka, author of Z-Signal on Venus (2004), Southern Cavalry Captain John Carter (2005), and Toshizo Hijitaka of Mars (2004). As those titles suggest, Yoshioka has been borrowing plot lines and characters from Edgar Rice [...]
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