Whenever I pick up and read a few volumes of Basara, I’m always struck by how much story and emotion Yumi Tamura is able to pack into a few pages. I’d started rereading Basara last year, but got distracted by having too many volumes of shiny new manga. The Manga Moveable Feast seemed like a [...]
Off the Shelf: Basara, MMF Edition
MELINDA: It’s time once again for the Manga Moveable Feast, this month featuring the works of Yumi Tamura and hosted at Tokyo Jupiter. Though three of her manga have been published in English by Viz Media, Tamura-sensei is best known to English-speaking fans for her 27-volume fantasy series Basara, published by Viz in its entirety [...]
Yumi Tamura: Two Artbooks
For this month’s MMF, I wanted to review something a little different—two new artbooks by Yumi Tamura. While they’re not available in English, they are fairly easy to find, and Tamura’s beautiful art doesn’t need to be read to be enjoyed. Natsu, a high school girl who is so shy that her only friend is [...]
License This! 7 Seeds by Tamura Yumi
Well, since everyone’s talking about Tamura Yumi and I just recently finished reading the newest volume of 7 Seeds, I think I will talk today about how some US company really, really, REALLY needs to license this awesome manga! I’m sure many of you have read Basara, so you know Tamura Yumi can write amazing [...]
One Piece creator takes a break; Yumi Tamura MMF continues
Bad news for Shonen Jump readers: One Piece is going on hiatus for two weeks while manga-ka Eiichiro Oda recovers from complications due to tonsillitis. The series will be back in the June 10 issue. Lissa Pattillo looks over this week’s new releases in her latest On the Shelf column at Otaku USA. Back at [...]
Fanservice Friday: Draco Malfoy & the Blue King
(Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Yumi Tamura’s Basara and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.) Confession time: Some of you may have gleaned this from our fanfiction roundtable a couple of years ago, but I’ll admit it plainly now. I was a fan of Draco Malfoy—not so much the Draco Malfoy that J.K. Rowling [...]
Manga the Week of 5/29
SEAN: The rest of the world is getting Yen next week, so feel free to add their books here. The rest of the pile is fairly muted, though as always, not without interest. Air Gear is one of those Shonen Magazine series that just runs and runs, with its combination of roller blading, conspiracy, and [...]
Weekly Shonen Jump Recap: May 20, 2013
It’s actually been a while since the last time we had just a regular issue of Weekly Shonen Jump. As far as I can remember the past few weeks have included a few monthly series here and there. So I almost don’t know what to do with myself, finding that I’m back to basics this [...]
It Came from the Sinosphere: Khóohái Lúsînliông
PUPPETS! Ever since I started this column, I’ve hoped to eventually feature a Taiwanese puppet show. Well, the time has come. The Story This series is a spinoff of a Taiwanese puppet saga known in English as The Scholar Swordsman. It stars one of the main characters of “The Scholar Swordsman,” called Khóohái Lúsînliông. Khóohái [...]
Manga at TCAF
The Manga Bookshelf team discusses their Pick of the Week. Lissa Pattillo files her con report on TCAF: The event had two manga guests – Taiyo Matsumoto and Gengoroh Tagame. I didn’t have much personal interest in Taiyo Matsumoto’s work, but I was thrilled that Tagame Gengoroh – a pioneer in the bara genre – [...]
