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Discussion, Resources, Roundtables, & Reviews

May 20, 2022 by Katherine Dacey Leave a Comment

The Manga Review, 5/20/22

This year’s Eisner nominations have just been announced. In the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia category, VIZ Media garnered five of the six nominations with crowd-pleasers such as Chainsaw Man and Spy x Family, while Seven Seas nabbed one for Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow. The only other manga nominated for an Eisner was Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, which is competing in the Best Humor Publication category. Also nominated for an Eisner is Eike Exner’s Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History, which was published by Rutgers University Press last year.

MANGA NEWS

Big news from Seven Seas! The company has just launched two imprints: Seven Seas BL, which will publish works in the BL/Boys’ Love genre, and Seven Seas GL, which will publish works in the GL/Girls’ Love (yuri) genre. [Seven Seas]

The final chapter in Wataru Hinekure’s My Love Mix-Up! will run in the June issue of Bessatsu Margaret. [Anime News Network]

Brigid Alverson previews three new shonen titles that debut in July. [ICv2]

Over at Book Riot, Carina Pereira highlights eight of the summer’s most anticipated graphic novels. [Book Riot]

How do librarians respond book challenges in their communities? Shawn, Megan, and Tayla offer a variety of helpful strategies for handling complaints about graphic novels, from setting clear policies about who can bring a formal complaint to using peer-reviewed sites to demonstrate that your collection is, in fact, age-appropriate. [No Flying, No Tights]

FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS

Looking for a good read? The crack team at ANN have just posted their Spring 2022 Manga Guide. Look for daily updates through the end of this week. [Anime News Network]

Tony explores the complex friendship between Kaguya Shinomiya and Ai Hayasaka in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. [Drop-In to Manga]

On the latest Manga Mavericks podcast, host Siddharth Gupta convenes a roundtable discussion about Yona of the Dawn with panelists from Anime Feminist, But Why Tho?!, and Good Friends Anime Club. [Manga Mavericks]

Geremy and Kevin round up the latest Shonen Jump chapters, then turn their attention to volume thirteen of Haikyu!! [Jump Start Weekly]

Why did Nobuhiro Watsuki’s Gun Blaze West get the axe after just three volumes? David and Jordan investigate. [Shonen Flop]

Did you know that Tokyopop’s Warriors fandom is still going strong after fifteen years? Patrick Kuklinksi shines a light on the fan-made comics that explore “parts of the books that weren’t detailed in canon,” re-write controversial storylines, and introduce original characters. [SOLRAD]

Megan D. jumps in the WABAC machine for a look at Rumiko Takashi’s Rumic Theater, a collection of short stories that VIZ published more than twenty-five years ago. “What caught my notice about this anthology is that they all feature something you don’t see a lot of in American manga releases: adult women,” she observes. “Every lead character is either a currently married woman (be they with or without children) or one who was married in the past.  A lot of their stories are small-scale, focused on their homes and their immediate community of friends and family. True to Takahashi fashion, though, they are also often comical”.” [The Manga Test Drive]

REVIEWS

Are you following Al’s Manga Blog? If not, you should: this review-focused website has been publishing insightful, crisply written essays since 2016. Al’s latest offerings include in-depth reviews of The Music of Marie, a new title by Usamaru Furuya (Short Cuts, Genkaku Picasso); Island in a Puddle, a thriller by Kei Sanabe (Erased); and Sakamoto Days, a new Shonen Jump series by Yutu Suzuki.

Also of note: ANN’s Caitlin Moore draws on her own experiences with ADHD in a thoughtful review of My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders, while Masha Zhdanova posts capsule reviews of three new VIZ titles.

  • All-Out!! (Krystallina, Daiyamanga)
  • All-Rounder Meguru (Krystallina, Daiyamanga)
  • Awkward Silence (Megan D. The Manga Test Drive)
  • Boys Run the Riot, Vol. 1 (Seth Smith, Women Write About Comics)
  • Devil Ecstasy, Vol. 1 (Demelza, Anime UK News)
  • Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 11 (Josh Piedra, The Outerhaven)
  • A Galaxy Next Door, Vol. 1 (Brett Michael Orr, Honey’s Anime)
  • Giant Spider & Me: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale (Megan D., The Manga Test Drive)
  • Golden Japanesque: A Splendid Yokohama Romance, Vol. 5 (Krystallina, The OASG)
  • The Haunted Bookstore, Vol. 1 (SKJAM, SKJAM! Reviews)
  • Island in a Puddle, Vol. 1 (King Baby Duck, Boston Bastard Brigade)
  • Jujutsu Kaisen, Vols. 14-15 (King Baby Duck, Boston Bastard Brigade)
  • Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible, Vol. 1 (Josh Piedra, The Outerhaven)
  • The Music of Marie (darkstorm, Anime UK News)
  • My Androgynous Boyfriend (Megan D., The Manga Test Drive)
  • The Poe Clan, Vol. 1 (Eric Alex Cline, AiPT!)
  • Record of Ragnarok, Vol. 1 (Danica Davidson, Otaku USA)
  • Rent-A-(Really Shy!)-Girlfriend, Vol. 2 (Demelza, Anime UK News)
  • Sakamoto Days, Vol. 1 (Renee Scott, Good Comics for Kids)
  • Seaside Stranger, Vol. 2: Harukaze no Étranger (Kate Sánchez, But Why Tho?!)
  • Sensei’s Pious Lie, Vol. 1 (Sarah, Anime UK News)
  • Short Sunzen (Megan D. The Manga Test Drive)
  • Stravaganza (Megan D., The Manga Test Drive)
  • To Strip the Flesh (Quinn, But Why Tho?!)
  • Wind Breaker, Vol. 1 (Brett Michael Orr, Honey’s Anime)

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Filed Under: FEATURES Tagged With: BL, censorship, Eisner Awards, Rumiko Takahashi, Seven Seas, Shonen Jump, Tokyopop, VIZ, yuri

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