Kate, Sean, Melinda, and Michelle paw through this week’s new arrivals at Midtown Comics, including Flowers of Evil, Until Death Do Us Part, Saturn Apartments, and more. What looks good to you this week?
Bookshelf Briefs 5/21/12
May 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
This week, Sean, Kate, Melinda, and Michelle look at recent releases from Yen Press, VIZ Media, Digital Manga Publishing, and Kodansha Comics, including Ai Ore!, Pandora Hearts, Arata: The Legend, Psyren, and more!
Until Death Do Us Part, Vol. 1
May 19, 2012 by
Until Death Do Us Part is a slickly packaged compendium of action movie tropes that reads like a story. That’s not to say it’s bad — it isn’t — but to warn you that you may experience a powerful sense of deja-vu as you thumb through its numerous shoot-outs, explosions, and speeches about terrorism. The [...]
Weekend update
May 19, 2012 by
I have the latest picks from this week’s new manga releases at MTV Geek; new Saturn Apartments makes me so happy! Lissa Pattillo gives her take in her latest On the Shelf column at Otaku USA. Sean Gaffney has the scoop on next week’s new manga. At The Comics Journal, Ryan Holmberg has a fascinating [...]
One Piece, Vol. 62
May 18, 2012 by
By Eiichiro Oda. Released in Japan by Shueisha, serialization ongoing in the magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. Released in North America by Viz. Now that the gang is back together, we are off to Fishman Island. No, really! Really and truly, they do finally arrive at Fishman Island this time. Which sort of ends up being [...]
Off the Shelf: Ode to Lionel Richie
May 17, 2012 by 4 Comments
MELINDA: Hello, hello! MICHELLE: Is it me you’re looking for? MELINDA: Heh. Yes. Though now I’m a little embarrassed about it. MICHELLE: I had the sheet music to “Say You, Say Me,” if that makes you feel any better. MELINDA: It does, it does. So. What have you been reading this week? MICHELLE: Well, as [...]
Manga the Week of 5/23
May 16, 2012 by
Only publishers at the end of the alphabet are welcome in next week’s manga shipment! Vertical features the first volume of their new shonen romantic blackmail comedy The Flowers of Evil, and I’m afraid everyone has to buy it, as otherwise the cover image will continue to stare into your soul forever. Into your SOUL. [...]
Mile-high MangaBlog
May 16, 2012 by
This edition of MangaBlog is comes to you from 36,000 feet above Wyoming—I’m on my way to San Francisco for a few days, so I took advantage of the in-flight WiFi. Please enjoy a complimentary beverage while you read today’s manga news. Deb Aoki is blogging up a storm at About.com, where she is discussing [...]
Links: Party Like It’s X/1999
May 16, 2012 by
Like many folks who discovered manga in the early-to-mid 2000s, one of my gateway titles was CLAMP’s X/1999. I hated myself for loving it as much as I did; the ridiculous costumes and purple dialogue alone were reason enough for my inner snob to dismiss it as angstful trash. For all its silliness, however, X [...]
Combat Commentary: Bleach (The Entire Series)
It occured to me that in the event that I ever run out of fights to cover (HA!), I needed to think of variations on my basic theme. And then I thought, instead of focusing on individual fights, it would be worth it to look at the basic fighting style(s) of entire mangas. If the [...]