Morgan Pielli | October 5, 2011
By Shannon H. Well, this week sure leaves me happy, since three of the six or so books that I’m actively collecting right now are making their appearance (anyone familiar with this column doesn’t need to guess that means that among our new arrivals is the new Fairy Tail, Blue Exorcist, and Bakuman). For the [...]
Category: Kodansha, Kodansha Comics, Manga, Shannon Hochman, Viz Media |
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Tags: Arina Tanemura, Bakuman, basketball, bleach, Blue Exorcist, Bryant Park, Buzzer Beater, Clamp, Fairy Tail, Hanamichi, high school basketball, Kinokuniya, misfits, Real, Sakura Hime, shoujo, Slam Dunk, Takehiko Inoue, Vagabond, Vampire Knight
Morgan Pielli | September 28, 2011
By Shannon H. In case some of the people who are reading this happen to be superhero fans of the DC/Marvel persuasion, there is a series you should consider as your stepping stone into the world of Japanese manga. It’s called Berserk, and its 35th volume hits our shelves this week. People who are already [...]
Category: Dark Horse, Kodansha, Kodansha Comics, Manga, Shannon Hochman, St. Martins |
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Tags: A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Band of the Hawk, Berserk, Casca, Griffith, Guts, Heavy Metal, Kentaro Miura, Mikoto Misaka, My Boyfriend is a Vampire, Negima
Morgan Pielli | September 21, 2011
By Shannon H. Obviously the book that is going to rush off the shelves this week is the second-to-last Full Metal Alchemist volume. That shouldn’t surprise anyone, but the excitement that’s building as the story dwindles to a close definitely will! Even if you are one of the new FMA fans that went hog wild [...]
Category: Anime, Contributors, Manga, Shannon Hochman, Viz Media |
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Tags: Full Metal Alchemist
Morgan Pielli | September 7, 2011
This nerd is still out, pretending like she’s a legit college student, going to university football games and stuff while out and about. No longer does she have the right to judge bros who come into Forbidden Planet in their plaid shorts and popped-collar polos. But just because she is watching some sports and pigging [...]
Category: Comics, Contributors, Kodansha Comics, Manga, Shannon Hochman, Viz Media |
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Tags: BABY DINOSAUR, bleach, Bloody Monday, dinosaur, Forbidden Planet, Gon, Grand Guignol Orchestra, Iron Chef, Kitchen Nightmares, Kodansha, Luffy, naruto, oishinbo, one piece, otaku, Toriko, Yakitate
Morgan Pielli | August 31, 2011
Still out on my crazy adventure. A rather bold party mix of manga this week, FP faithful, and certainly something for everyone! There’s some shoujo, some shounen, and I decent peppering of yaoi on top! In partiuclar, there are two relatively known titles coming out this week that don’t seem to get the limelight they [...]
Category: Dark Horse, Manga, Shannon Hochman |
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Tags: akira, Eden: It's An Endless World, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, shoujo, shounen, yaoi
Morgan Pielli | August 24, 2011
Hello FP otaku! You may have noticed me missing from my usual haunt upstairs in our super awesome anime loft, and that is because I am currently out on the road, dialing in news about what’s hot in manga as I experience the most un-Eastern thing there is: America. So don’t worry! I’m not dead [...]
Category: Digital Manga, Manga, Shannon Hochman |
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Tags: FAKE, fujoushi, Goh, Taki, Yellow
Morgan Pielli | August 17, 2011
So you read Death Note and you loved the poop out of it. Now you’re thirsty for more and ready to graduate into the big leagues, but reading just some other shonen title isn’t enough for you: you want the real deal — something like Death Note, but on the next level, nine thousand times [...]
Category: Manga, Shannon Hochman, Viz Media |
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Tags: 20th century boys, Death Note, Monster, Naoki Urasawa, pluto, Twentieth Century Boys
Morgan Pielli | August 10, 2011
By Shannon Because I’m secretly waiting for a talking black cat to appear and tell me that I’m actually Sailor Mars, I’ve been practicing my divination skills: the spirits tell me that the next big explosion in the land of manga is going to be a little series called Blue Exorcist. Maybe you’ve heard of [...]
Category: Comics, Manga, Shannon Hochman, Viz Media |
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Tags: Black Butler, Blue Exorcist, fan service, Full Metal Alchemist, Hetalia, Kazue Kato
Morgan Pielli | August 3, 2011
By Shannon H It’s always going to be a big, fat mystery as to why the manga and anime publishers not only don’t keep more in step with what’s popular, but also why they don’t bring it over faster; most of the stuff to make it to our shelves is from at least two seasons [...]
Category: Anime, Comics, Shannon Hochman |
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Tags: Crunchyroll, Dr. Watson, GOSICK, Gundam AGE, Infinite Stratos, Kazuya Kujo, Kuragehime, Princess Jellyfish, Sherlock Holmes, Studio BONES, Tsukimi, Victorique
Morgan Pielli | July 27, 2011
By Shannon H Touch the untouchable, break the unbreakable! Row row– Ahem. Suffice it to say that there is a new TENGEN TOPPEN GURREN LAGANN book out this week and I’m super-dooper excited about it! Why, you may ask? Well, obviously because TTGL is freaking awesome, and also because its manga adaptation, amazingly enough, doesn’t [...]
Category: Bandai, Shannon Hochman |
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Tags: Akira Minazuki, boobs, buddy cops, Captain Osaka, chest-bumpingest, Double K, Evangelion, FLCL, fujoushi, GAINAX, GAINAX jiggle, Gurren Lagann, hotpants, Kamina, King of the Bros, shinji ikari, Simon, Spike Spiegal, Tengen Toppen Gurren Lagann, TTGL, yaoi, Yoko