Manga News, Reviews and Commentary
This week I look at some manga news, news from Vizmanga.com, the Nielson Bookscan for September, and review the Yen Press title Umineko When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch Part 2. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode27/MangaDomeEpisode27.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
This week I make my weekly wish list, look at a new license announcement from Vertical, the Vizmanga.com update, and review High school of the Dead vol 4-7. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpsiode26/MangaDomeEpsiode26.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
This week I look at new manga releases, new digital manga released at Vizmanga.com, and I review the first two volumes of Cross Manage. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode25/MangaDomeEpisode25.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
This week I look at eManga’s September promotion, the bestselling and new releases at Vizmanga.com, and I review Backstage Prince vol 1-2 as a comfort manga. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode24/MangaDomeEpisode24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
In this episode I look at the Nielson Bookscan Top 20, the goings-on at Vizmanga.com and then I review the Kodansha digital samplers Real and Unreal. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode23/MangaDomeEpisode23.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Only one name strikes fear into the hearts of evildoers everywhere: Phoenix Wright, ace attorney. Join Phoenix Wright and his adorable assistant Maya–plus Miles Edgeworth, Detective Gumshoe, Franziska von Karma, and others–as they investigate twenty intriguing cases. And find out why Phoenix Wright has devoted his life to fighting injustice! By CAPCOM Publisher: Del Rey Manga Age Rating: Teen Genre: Mystery;Video Game Adaptation Price: $14.95 (OOP) Rating: I think it is safe to say my kids can influence my reading habits. Some people might say it’s good that I’m looking into what my kids are reading and playing. I’ve been reading the web comic Homestuck after they told me about it. And now, after my oldest daughter discovered the Phoenix Wright Nintendo DS video games, and basically told me the whole plot of them, I am now reading the Phoenix Wright manga. I read the first volume of the ongoing series of Phoenix Wright, and didn’t find it appealing from a mystery-lovers perspective. But having gotten this title for her, I decided to read it and see if it could win me over as the ongoing couldn’t. And it did so, in spades! This volume is a thick 304-page anthology…
This week I check out a new manga kickstarter from Manga Reborn, what’s up at Vizmanga, and review the last two volumes of Alice in the Country of Hearts. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode22/MangaDomeEpisode22.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Manga at Japan Expo This week at look at some news, the Vizmanga price increase, top ten and new releases, and the new licenses Yen Press and Viz Media announced at Japan Expo last weekend. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode21/MangaDomeEpisode21.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Not Feeling the Magica It’s a short episode this week. I look at some new stories, what’s new at Vizmanga, and do a short review of the Magica spinoffs, Puella Magi Kazumi Magica and Puella Magi Oriko Magica. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode20/MangaDomeEpisode20.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Manga at Otakon! This week I check out some news stories from Japan, the goings-ons at Vizmanga, the latest Bookscan numbers and finally the manga license announcements from Otakon. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode19/MangaDomeEpisode19.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Sparkler Monthly Magazine This week is the usual Vizmanga.com features with the spotlight going on Sparkler Magazine as I take an in-depth look at its titles and features. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode18/MangaDomeEpisode18.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
I’ve never understood the whole Boys Love phenomenon. I’m not a shipper, so I don’t see the appeal of putting two characters together, let allow two characters of the same-sex. But to be honest, I’ve never read any BL either. I’m not someone who goes out of their comfort zone easily, and I was going to skip this month’s Manga Movable Feast. But then I remembered I had one volume of BL I had received as a review copy back from when Aurora was still around. I had kept it to try, and then it got buried in a box of half read/half unread manga. So I pulled it and decided to read it. Two of Hearts is by Kano Miyamoto. It is one volume long and comes from Aurora’s Deux imprint. It is about Haruya Ito, a writer for an arts magazine who writes articles month to month, but doesn’t seem to have any ambition beyond that. One day, he meets a troubled teenager, Maki Hidaka on the beach near his home. Maki has issues; he’s a germaphobe, OCD about washing his hands, hates to be touched and is malnourished as his mother is an alcoholic and doesn’t provide…
