Manga Before Flowers
Manga Before Flowers — Is CMX next?
- by Danielle Leigh
- Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 5:02 AM EST
With the cancellation of DC’s MINX line, Dirk Deppey at journalista asks if we should start a “deathwatch” for CMX and I thought I would see what you all think — is the death of CMX a real possibility?
CMX launched in 2005 (a year before MINX was announced I believe) and their books aren’t known for pulling […]
Manga Before Flowers — Itazura na Kiss & Contemporary Shojo
- by Danielle Leigh
- Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 8:41 AM EST
This week I want to talk one of the biggest surprises of the 2008 Spring anime season — a little show that could, titled Itazura na Kiss (aka Mischievous Kiss). Based on a 23-volume shojo manga of the same name from the early 90’s, the creators of the anime have done a beautiful job updating a very […]
Manga Before Flowers — Viz Releases on 9/4, Too much of a good thing?
- by Danielle Leigh
- Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 PM EST
Tomorrow Viz will “officially” release 26 manga and one manga magazine (Shonen Jump) via Diamond. Now, a great many of those books have been available in the chain bookstores for a little while (maybe a week or so?), and they have definitely been available through amazon even longer. However, if we are talking the direct market that is […]
Manga Before Flowers — Back to School Blues Day 2
- by Danielle Leigh
- Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 at 6:47 AM EST
Okay so the first day of school wasn’t soooo bad…however, I’m still suffering a rather bad case of the “anywhere but here”s. How about you all?
Today’s question — what manga school setting would you like to attend?
I think I would enjoy attending Ouran High School since I have short brown hair, wear glasses, and was once called “sir” by a customer at my […]
Manga Before Flowers — Back to School Blues DAY 1
- by Danielle Leigh
- Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 4:42 AM EST
In my area we are heading back to school this week and it already seems like it is going to be the hardest week ever all over again. And then I thought, oohhh! Manga always make school seem like so much fun! Or potentially life threatening! So every day this week I’m going to pick a […]
Manga Before Flowers - Manga Picks of the Week 8/14/08
- by Danielle Leigh
- Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 6:15 AM EST
This week we have a little of something for everyone — shonen, shojo, yaoi, and seinen picks of the week!
Manga Before Flowers — Manga Picks of the Week
- by Danielle Leigh
- Friday, August 8th, 2008 at 9:35 AM EST
I usually read through a good deal of manga on a weekly basis (or at least I have been lately, once I fearfully assessed the leaning-tower-of-Pisa-ness of my manga stack/s) but very rarely do I find the time to share my reading experiences in this forum. So instead of chasing after the “new,” (i.e. […]
Manga Before Flowers — Tokyopop & Us
- by Danielle Leigh
- Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 12:15 PM EST
Tokyopop’s recent instability makes it incredibly difficult to figure out which series will make it through the company’s “restructuring” and which series won’t. While we can make educated guesses — a lot of OEL won’t make it, a lot of manwha won’t make it — there have been some surprises on the cancellations list, at […]
Manga Before Flowers — Weighing in on YEN+
- by Danielle Leigh
- Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at 5:47 AM EST
Yen+ Is the new manga / manwha / OEL anthology from Yen Press and does something quite different from the two successful manga magazines currently on the U.S. market — Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat — by including comics from OEL creative teams as well as work from Korea. However, it actually differentiates itself from SJ and SB even […]
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 […]
