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By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Crunchyroll, nerd power, and new yaoi

MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Crunchyroll, nerd power, and new yaoi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:25:34 +0000

[...] Reviews: Over at Graphic Novel Reporter, I reviewed (and field-tested) The Manga Cookbook, and I also have a few non-manga reviews up: Dear Dracula, Amelia Rules!, vol. 1 of Luuna, and Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel. At Good Comics for Kids, Kate Dacey has come up with a trio of good manga for kids. Also, I couldn’t stop laughing at the title of Tantric Stripfighter Trina long enough to review it, so I passed along my copy to Erica Friedman, who expertly skewers it at Okazu. At Comics Worth Reading, Ed Sizemore checks out vol. 3 of Mechademia, the scholarlymci journal of otaku culture. And the Manga Recon team looks over some prose books for their Otaku Bookshelf. [...]

By: Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:25:54 +0000

Ooooo threaded comments, very nice. Though I wish it would remember who I am in between.

By: Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:25:06 +0000

Yeah, I generally think most inner thought should be left that way. Heh.

By: there it is, plain as daylight. » North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter

there it is, plain as daylight. » North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:21:16 +0000

[...] a quick note to let you know that a review of mine went up this evening at Manga Recon’s Otaku Bookshelf. The review is of Vertical’s release of Sakie Yokota’s heartbreaking memoir, North [...]

By: Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:16:36 +0000

It really is better. Probably I would've liked the new material more, too, if it had had Honami's art to accompany it (and less access to characters' inner thoughts that are all about boffing).

By: Melinda Beasi

Melinda Beasi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:08:03 +0000

Well, Michelle, if nothing else at least you've inspired me to want to read the original manga.

By: swanjun // soliloquy in blue » Blog Archive » Desire: Dangerous Feelings by Maki Kazumi and Yukine Honami: C+

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:39:52 +0000

[...] by DMP, written and illustrated by the original creators of the manga version of Desire. I reviewed it for this month’s Otaku Bookshelf [...]