| 2:36am | Cirque du Freak Volume 03 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | Huge thanks to Yen Press for providing a review copy About the Mangaka Darren Shan is an Irish author who has written both adult and young adult novels, as well as scripts for both TV and radio. No info on Arai Takahiro drop me a line if you have any. About the Manga I’m really getting into this series,... |
| 10:59am | Croquis Pop Volume 06 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | Review copy kindly provided by Yen Press About the Mangaka Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything on KwangHyun Seo, who wrote the story, nor on JinHo Ko who did the art. If anyone has any info please drop me a line through the contact me page. About the Manga This is the first series from Yen Press... |
| 1:13am | With the Light Volume 05 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | Many thanks to Yen Press for providing a review copy About the Mangaka Sadly, despite looking everywhere (english sites that is) I can’t find anything else on Tobe Keiko. If anyone knows anything about her, please drop me a line through the contact page. About the Manga With the Light was my first... |
| 9:57pm | Cain Box set Volumes 1-3 (END) – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | About the Mangaka Unfortunately everything I could find about le Peruggine was in french, which I don’t speak. He/She has a website and a MySpace site. I couldn’t read the MySpace site, the colours used make it almost impossible to read hehe About the Manga This was the first... |
| 7:47pm | Anime News Network boycott?? | | | | I was looking through twitter just now and noticed that AnimeAlmanac had changed his icon pic. He now has an image saying to boycott the Anime News Network. Initially I figured they’d done some heinous crime (such as buy shares in CrunchyRoll) to deserve this hate. So I asked, and was shocked to... |
| 6:45pm | 13th Boy Volume 02 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | Many thanks to Yen Press for providing a review copy. About the Author Nothing available on SangEun Lee, hit the contact me button if you have any info. About the Manga Damn the weird gets weirder. This volumes takes the magical aspects of the previous volume and explodes them. Truthfully, it’s this... |
| 3:52am | Dark Wrath of Shannara (GN) Vol 01 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | About the Mangaka Terry Brooks shouldn’t need any introduction really, he’s one of the leaders of the fantasy genre. This is his first attempt at making a series for Graphic Novel distribution. Robert P. Naptom has been writing comics and novels since the 90’s, and currently has titles out in... |
| 12:02pm | Tale of the Waning Moon Vol 01 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | Many thanks to Yen Press for providing a review copy About the Mangaka Couldn’t find anything on Fujiyama Hyouta, drop me a line if you know anything About the Manga I’m in to minds over the series, on the one had I did grow to like it, but on the other it lacks several things. Also, I’m not... |
| 4:31pm | Where I buy manga | | | | Over the years I’ve bought from several stores, both on and off line, but I think I’ve found where I’m going to be buying from now on. 86th Floor is a British online comics supplier, so yanks and Canadians sorry But for us Brits this could be the answer of where to get the latest... |
| 6:26pm | B.Ichi Volume 04 (END) – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | Many thanks to Yen Press for providing a review copy About the Mangaka Okubo Atsushi is better known for his more recent work, Soul Eater. However he also assisted on the older series, Get Backers. B.Ichi is his first independent work where he did both the art and story. About the Manga*sigh* While... | | |
| 7:42pm | Yotsuba&! Volumes 1-6 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | Huge huge HUGE thanks to Yen Press for sending me this to review!! About the Mangaka Azuma Kiyohiko is the creator of Azumanga Daioh as well as Yotsuba&!, as well as other hentai manga as well. Due to the way he writes his name there has been debate over whether he was a guy or gal. He has several... | | |
| 1:04pm | Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D Volume 1-3 (manga) – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | About the Mangaka Takaki Saiko has been a mangaka for close to a decade, as well as an illustrator and graphic designer. She has worked on numerous projects in both the gaming and manga industries. Saiko was hand picked by Kikuchi to adapt his novels to manga. About the Manga I had really high expectations... | | |
| 6:03pm | Anime on TweeterWall, the biggest con on Twitter | | | | Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of these floating around twitter: TweeterWall @username one of your followers has just added you to the Anime on Twitter wall @ http://bit.ly/YUXjB , vote now! While the idea behind the site may well be sound, it’s implementation is, if anything, ludicrous. For... |
| 3:35pm | Lunar Legend Tsukihime Vol 02-06 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | About the Mangaka Type-Moon (Original Creator) is a prominent Japanese game company, best known for their visual novels, co-founded by author Kinoko Nasu and illustrator Takashi Takeuchi. It is also known under the name Notes Co., Ltd. for its publishing and corporate operations. After creating the... | | |
| 4:16am | Praetorian Vol 01 – Thoughts & Impressions | | | | About the Mangaka Nothing available sorry About the Manga This was another impulse buy, bought at the same time as Angelic Runes. Sadly this is one I regret buying because it fails so badly. Yeah I don’t do comics very often, but I liked the plot behind it, and I liked the cover when I saw it. Sadly... |
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