Though many folks have been posting their two cents over the prosecution of Christopher Handley, a Midwestern manga collector facing up to twenty years in prison for alleged possession of shota/lolicon, Alex Woolfson of Yaoi 911 has posted one of the most thoughtful responses to the case. If you want the facts, I encourage you [...]

Over at the School Library Journal’s Good Comics for Kids website, I posted a review of SUIHELIBE!, an all-ages title that CMX will publish on November 5th. N.B. Our own Sam Kusek reviewed an advanced copy this summer; click here for his review.

Though mini reviews are a staple of many manga blogs and websites (ours included), very few folks do them well. Dan Grendell, a contributor at Comic Pants, posts some of the best on the web, and does so at a site better known for its tights-and-capes coverage than its manga reviews. His monthly Manga Zubon [...]

Not only are the Ryans of SAME HAT! SAME HAT! cool enough to translate cult manga and document the sartorial foibles of Kazuo Umezu, they’re also man enough to like The Antique Bakery… and admit it in a public forum. Hats off to ‘em for unearthing the trailer for a Korean adaptation of The Antique [...]

Over at The Comics Reporter, David Welsh took a slightly different tact when Minx’s demise was announced. Rather than analyze What Went Wrong, he decided to talk about the shojo manga that he felt embodied the Minx concept: stories about “real girls in the real world.” (OK, David did engage in a little armchair quarterbacking [...]

Brigid Alverson doesn’t post many reviews at MangaBlog, but when she does, they’re worth reading. This week, she tackles Kasumi, a Japanese-American collaboration published by Del Rey. As Chloe Ferguson did in her review, Brigid takes issue with Kasumi’s strenuous efforts to come across as authentically Eastern:
Kasumi is a good start but tries too hard [...]

Our very own Michelle Smith is a tireless blogger, posting new book and manga reviews on a near-daily basis at her personal site Soliloquy in Blue. (How does she find time to write good stuff for PCS?! The mind boggles!) Over the last two weeks, she’s conducted her very own Overlooked Manga Festival with reviews [...]

Proving once again that the Japanese can turn almost any concept into a manga, MangaCast ringleader Ed Chavez shares images from Le Temps de Fromage, a seinen manga about… a comely cheese aficionado. Rei, the series’ ebullient heroine, is such a fan of cheese, in fact, that she’s been knighted! In France! By fellow cheese [...]

If you didn’t make it to New York Anime Fest this year, never fear–the intrepid Deb Aoki covered everything, from the licensing announcements to the industry panels to the outrageous costumes. Perhaps the most telling thing about this year’s convention is how few publishers actually attended. Aurora, CMX, DMP, Go! Comi, Tokyopop, and Viz were [...]

Over at Sporadic Sequential, John Jakala shares a page from Tintin Pantoja’s fabulous shojo Wonder Woman sketchbook and asks a question that many of us have been wondering: why doesn’t DC give Pantoja the green light to develop her concept into a print series? Surely there’s a bigger audience for a shojofied WW than there [...]