News and reviews for the discerning manga fan
If Santa didn’t bring you the manga on your wish list, take heart: Dark Horse, DMP, and VIZ are all running sweet end-of-the-year promotions on digital manga. Dark Horse, for example, just unveiled a ten-volume Lone Wolf and Cub mega-bundle that retails for $44.95, while DMP is making the first five volumes of Vampire Hunter D [...]
Last week, Kotaku correspondent Harris O’Malley posted “Nerds and Male Privilege,” a Sexism 101 primer aimed at male gamers. The premise of the article is sound: O’Malley explains the concepts of male privilege and the male gaze, discusses misogyny in gaming culture, and exhorts his fellow geeks to treat women who share their interests as [...]
Curious about the upcoming launch of JManga? If so, you’ll want to visit About.com, where Deb Aoki has posted two in-depth articles on this ambitious undertaking. The first is a transcript of the JManga panel at SDCC 2011, in which representatives from Kodansha, Shogakukan, Shueisha, Futabasha, and Kadokawa Shoten discussed the portal’s history and features. The [...]
After an eight-year hiatus, CLAMP will begin writing new Legal Drug stories for Young Ace magazine. The first installment will hit Japanese newsstands on November 4th. As yet, no North American publisher has announced interest in this series, which was originally licensed by TOKYOPOP in 2003, but it seems like a good fit with Dark [...]
Over at The Comics Journal, Dan Nadel has posted a short but tantalizing preview of Tank Tankuro: Prewar Works, 1934-1935, which will be released by PressPop on Wednesday. Readers unfamiliar with Gajo Sakamoto’s iconic character will find this comic-strip anthology enlightening; not only was Tank one of the earliest robot manga characters, but he’s also [...]
On July 15th, Buddhists in Japan will begin observing Shichigatsu Bon. For three days, families honor their ancestors by dancing, attending carnivals, and setting off firecrackers. The final night of Bon is marked by Toro Nagashi, a ceremony in which “paper lanterns are illuminated and then floated down rivers symbolically signaling the ancestral spirits’ return to [...]
Over at the Dark Horse website, legendary manga editor Carl Horn discusses the company’s latest CLAMP release, Magic Knight Rayearth. As Horn notes in his essay, Rayearth was a significant milestone for CLAMP and for the manga industry — for CLAMP, because it was their first big commercial hit, and for the industry, because CLAMP [...]
Public Radio International recently interviewed legendary artist Shigeru Mizuki about Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, his semi-autobiographical manga set during World War II. First published in 1973, the book offers a soldier’s eye view of trench warfare, showing readers just how terrifying and tedious it was to serve in the Pacific Theater. As scholar Frederick [...]
Is VIZ planning to create a yaoi imprint? That’s the question on industry watchers’ minds after VIZ listed a new position on its website. According to the job description, the Yaoi/BL Editor will work closely with the Publisher to “develop strategic business and sales initiatives in order to expand the company’s position in the market” [...]
Sean Gaffney, the affable host of A Case Suitable for Treatment, just posted his review of Kaoru Mori’s A Bride’s Story. Though he acknowledges Mori’s superb artistic skills, Gaffney is less enthusiastic about the title than many of the other folks — myself included — who blog about manga. “If there’s anything wrong with the [...]
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