Inside Manga

Crayon Shinchan, translating yuri, and the delights of Sakura-con

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In this week’s Publishers Weekly Comics Week, I talk to Asako Suzuki and Jim Chadwick of CMX about the return of Crayon Shinchan.
David Welsh takes a short look at a short list of new manga for this week.
Erica…

5th anniversary manga giveaway

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I’m coming up on my 5th (!) year of blogging, so I’m going to give away some manga to a lucky reader. In the past I’ve offered up chances to win individual volumes of manga, but I don’t have the time to do that…

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Fun Home Protest in Utah

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Some students at the University of Utah are frightened by autobiographical graphic novels, as shown in this story where they compare Fun Home to pornography. There’s even a protest group with an online petition, I…

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SOS

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SOS, Volume 1 by Hinako Ashihara amazon
I liked the first volume of Sand Chronicles so much, I decided to check out this book of short stories by Ashihara. “SOS” is a longer work with a couple chapters. Yu is a…

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Yozakura Quartet

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Yozakura Quartet Volume 1 by Suzuhito Yasuda amazon
I pre-ordered this because I thought the image of a pink-eyed girl with a guitar on the front cover looked sort of cool. I guess I was secretly hoping that she’d…

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Your & My Secret

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Your and My Secret Volume 1 by Ai Morinaga (amazon)
Your & My Secret is the craziest gender-bending manga I have ever read. Granted, I have not investigated the genre throughly, but it seems like it would be very…

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