Danielle Leigh
Manga Before Flowers — The Pinnacle of all Manga Evolution
- by Danielle Leigh
- Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 AM EST
I’m pretty sure Vassalord is basically why manga exists on this earth.
So I can write about a comic that features a “cyborg vampire” who works for the Vatican and his master/lover, a playboy vampire Johnny Rayflo, and shows them fighting evil. And each other. But usually evil. Although often each other.
The only question I have […]
Manga Before Flowers — A Love Letter to CMX
- by Danielle Leigh
- Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 8:08 AM EST
A lot of people don’t seem to know about CMX manga. It is a very strange little imprint of DC Comics (it is considered part of “Wildstorm” even though you wouldn’t even guess that unless you examined the copyright info in the back of a CMX manga).
For a large number of manga fans, CMX is best […]
Manga Before Flowers — Manga Collection Hell
- by Danielle Leigh
- Thursday, July 10th, 2008 at 5:45 AM EST
Today my boyfriend gets back from his walk and smiles when he sees a few (small-ish) stacks of manga on the guest bed. “You’re organizing?” (”Organizing” is code for “selling manga on ebay”). I nod.
This makes me look good until he sees the two LARGE stacks of to-be-read manga in the bedroom.
“But you are going […]
Anime Expo: Day Two
- by Danielle Leigh
- Saturday, July 5th, 2008 at 7:13 AM EST
My day two went like this: panel, panel, panel, panel, panel, panel, panel. And then more panel. (It’s like that SNL Christopher Walken skit, “I need more cow-bell!” That is how I currently feel about panels. Um. Except in reverse).
I managed to see Viz, DarkHorse, DMP, Nozomi/Right Stuff, and ADV. That is a LOT of […]
Anime-Expo: Day One, Part Two
- by Danielle Leigh
- Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 5:19 AM EST
The rest of my day was really quite awesome. I won a raffle, ended up joining a panel — spontaneously! – and met some very cool ladies of manga and anime blogging. Oh yes, then I went to the AMV show.
It was a full, rich, exhausting day.
Friday’s schedule looks to be just as insanely busy.
Anime-Expo Day One (Part One)
- by Danielle Leigh
- Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 5:05 PM EST
First, thanks to Brian for helping me get press credentials! I missed a few panels today that were press & industry only but that’s my own fault for not thinking of this earlier. In the meantime, I did have a really great time checking things out and making my own schedule.
Since Gia at a Geek by any […]
Anime-Expo: Day 0
- by Danielle Leigh
- Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 AM EST
So my first time West of Des Moines, Iowa ever (oh shush, I grew up on the East coast) treats me to a bomb threat at the LAX airport. Fun!
This is going to be short and not very sweet but oh well. I feel the need to share my convention horror mildly inconveniencing stories. Also, my dinner […]
Manga Before Flowers — Convention Talk
- by Danielle Leigh
- Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 2:11 PM EST
A week from now from I leave for L.A. & the mother of all Anime convetions — Anime Expo.
This will be my third anime convention ever. The first was ACEN (Anime Central) a large-ish regional convention held in Chicago each May (attendance last year 12,000), and the second AnimeIowa (attendance last year 2,300), a much smaller regional con held in, […]
Manga Reviews: Kamisama Kazoku vol 1
- by Danielle Leigh
- Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 6:01 AM EST
The creative team behind Kamisama Kazoku upends the “harem” sex-comedy we’ve all grown tired of and makes us laugh while doing it.
Manga Reviews: Ultimate Venus volume 1
- by Danielle Leigh
- Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 1:23 PM EST
Ultimate Venus reminds that sometimes the Cinderella fairy tale still can work.
Manga Before Flowers — Previews, Previews, Previews!!
- by Danielle Leigh
- Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 7:42 AM EST
Nothing gets me more excited about manga than working on my previews order — the excitement of anticipation (i.e. “Is that new title going to kick as much ass as I think it will?” or “How much more can NANA break my heart?”) is really what makes previews so much fun and occasionally nerve-wracking (”dear god, […]
Manga Before Flowers — Publisher & Fan Woes
- by Danielle Leigh
- Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 PM EST
This is a quick news round-up of recent shake-ups in the world of manga publishing and my usual column will probably appear later this week….
Manga Before Flowers — Creator Rights & Fan Responsibility
- by Danielle Leigh
- Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 10:18 AM EST
Just wanted to update with a pointer to a very interesting post by David Welsh over at his blog Precocious Curmudgeon. He draws together two discussions occuring on the manga blog-o-sphere happening right now — the Tokyopop “Pact” & the issue of fan translations of anime & manga — in a very smart, and very significant, way here.
For the record, […]
Manga Before Flowers — News Flash: Corporations Suck!
- by Danielle Leigh
- Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 2:52 PM EST
Okay, so the fact corporations suck is not surprising…but since I just spent this morning giving both fans and U.S. media corpations a fair shake, as it were, in my column, I’m feeling rather chagrined when I blog-hop this afternoon and find that Lea Hernandez is reporting on the latest (& truly hideous) Tokyopop contract with creators here. […]
Manga Before Flowers — Fanworks and How the Fan works
- by Danielle Leigh
- Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 7:19 AM EST
This week I really wanted to discuss two anime series that started up this spring in Japan which I’ve been following week-to-week thanks to the efforts of two fansub groups who subtitle episodes of each series in English within days of their release in Japan. (My justification for discussing anime on a comic book blog was that both […]
