Welcome to another week of manga news! It’s my hope that you’re reading this with sunlight streaming through your windows, as I’m currently typing away with 5 centimetres of snow on the ground. That said, I think this week’s headlines might brighten up some days. Fans of classic manga Cardcaptor Sakura received confirmation of a…
Shinbun Saturday: Sherlock Gets a Manga Adaptation
Happy Saturday, dear readers! Can you believe February is over? I certainly can’t, but I’m excited about the coming of spring. The manga world lit up this last week with the news that BBC’s Sherlock will be getting a manga adaptation. It’s not the first time we’ve seen this happen. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has…
Shinbun Saturday: In Defense of Fujoshi
Happy Saturday, dear readers! Can you believe we’re already in mid-February? Where is 2016 going? On the other hand, spring is only a month away now. I know I’m glad the sun is no longer setting before 5PM. If you’ve been in the manga and anime fandoms for long enough, chances are you’ve encountered a…
Shinbun Saturday: Naruto Fanfiction Gets a Drama CD
Welcome to another edition of Shinbun Saturday! We’re finally saying goodbye to our last traces of snow here in the Mid-Atlantic…just in time for another snowstorm early next week. Winter, why do you hate us so? Here’s to hoping the local meteorologists are wrong! To start off things, let’s talk about fanfiction. People who’ve been…
Is It Safe to Review a Book Before You’ve Finished it? What I’m Reading Now: Shindo
Saso Akira has caught my attention with his older work Shindo. Saso is an award-winning mangaka and manga lecturer known for stories about uncomfortable subjects; Kodomo no Kodomo, for example, is about pre-teen pregnancy, and Toto’s World is about a child who is mute. He also produced an adaptation of the controversial film Departures/Okuribito, a story about undertaking. Shindo is a manga…
Shinbun Saturday: Prolific Manga Creator Nominated for the Will Eisner Hall of Fame
I can’t believe January’s over! How are we into February already? Didn’t 2016 just start? Yikes. At any rate, a new month means new manga news. Katsucon is next weekend, so I wonder if we’ll hear anything interesting? Speaking of cons, SDCC announced nominees for the 2016 Will Eisner Hall of Fame earlier this week….
Shinbun Saturday: When Dragon Ball Goes Bad
Welcome to another edition of Shinbun Saturday! If you live in the path of Winter Storm Jonas (better known as Snowzilla where I live), I hope you weathered the ice, snow, and flooding with minimal damage. Now, let’s take a look at the week in manga! What’s a mangaka to do when their comic becomes…
Shinbun Saturday: Awards, Anime Adaptations, and Car Parts, Oh My!
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you’re all nice and warm, especially if you live in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region like me and are currently enduring a snowpocalypse. When the snow’s coming down this fast and hard, there’s not much you can do except hunker down and wait it out. Perfect time to curl up with…
Short & Sweet, All-Manga Edition: Barakamon, My Hero Academia, and More!
Barakamon, Volume #5 Satsuki Yoshino (mangaka); Krista Shipley & Karie Shipley (translation); Lys Blakeslee (lettering) Yen Press, June 2015 Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by Yen Press. Volume 5 of Barakamon is just as full of childhood hijinks and warm feelings as earlier volumes. City calligrapher Seishuu Handa has by now more-or-less fully adapted…
Shinbun Saturday: The Future of Manga is Digital
Happy Saturday, everyone! I don’t know about you, but winter has truly arrived here in the Mid-Atlantic and I’m having a difficult time rousing my energy. Hopefully, it’ll pass soon because I have things to do! It’s been a relatively slow news week in the manga world — probably because everyone is enthralled by the…
Shinbun Saturday: Bestselling Manga in the Year of the Monkey
Welcome to the first non-holiday weekend of 2016! Hope your holidays were restful and filled with delicious food and people. Now, it’s time to kick off the year in style! What news will 2016 bring to the manga world? Who knows? Let’s keep our fingers crossed that it’ll be interesting, exciting, and entertaining! For now,…
Aldnoah.Zero Volume 1: Space Tragedy in the Making
Aldnoah.Zero, Vol. 1 Olympus Knights (story); Pinakes (art); Sheldon Drzka (translation); Brndn Blakeslee, Lys Blakeslee (lettering) Yen Press, Dec 2015 Disclaimer: Yen Press provided a complimentary review copy upon which this article is based. After the first few pages, I wanted to call Aldnoah.Zero a space opera. After another few pages, I wanted to call it a…