Blech, I need a better name for this stuff.

Anyway, shameless plugs!

Manga Recon cranks out the reviews this week, with the usual weekly review from moi, along with a new installment of Manga Mini's with reviews from Katherine and I. In the Manga Mini's for this week Katherine takes a looks at Andromeda Stories vol. 2, La Corda d'Oro vol. 6 and the first volume of Short Sunzen! Meanwhile I go over Uzumaki vol. 3, the finale of Junji Ito's horror masterpiece, and Appleseed I/D, a nifty lil' book of supplementary material and more for Shirow's cyberpunk epic.

Speaking of cyberpunk manga.. in a normal length review I look at NOiSE, a prequel to Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! I've actually been kind of curious about Blame! since this past Nov. or so and I'm glad I was able to get a taste of Nihei's work via NOiSE. Fun fact! Nihei also did a Wolverine mini-series for Marvel entitled Wolverine: Snikt! Sadly it seems that Marvel has let the collected edition of the series slide of out of print. There's also a single disk anime thingy for Blame! listed on Amazon, don't know much about it though. Sounds like a single disk with several vignettes though. Huh.

Anyway..

I have to admit that I haven't had a whole lot of contact with Sixxx, she had commented a few times I think and she was the only person to have bothered to read my single fiction piece I put up here, but her banning has certainly set off a chain reaction in the TP blogosphere. Rain66 has a nice entry about the incident which has turned up on.. well.. just about every TP blog on my RSS feed. The linked entry above also contains links to other entries about the incident as well. Worth a look.

Elsewhere in the manga blogosphere..

Actually.. Brigid's entry for Thursday has links to just about everything else that's really caught my eye lately. Mangablog: Manga in the Gutters is choke full of nifty links. I highly recommend checking out the Icarus Publishing blog entry she has linked, it talks about and collects various links and tidbits regarding the current ADV situation. It's also worth checking out the links in that entry as well, particularly for the AoD "Life After ADV" article.

Lori Henderson and the rest of the folks at Manga Village roll out a few reviews of their own. They take a look at titles such as Eyeshield 21 vol. 1 and Gunsmith Cats: Revised Edition vol. 1. For a list of all the titles they reviewed this week check out this entry. While you're there take a gander at Lori's list of releases and recommendations for Tokyopop's Feb '08 schedule.

Also, a week or two back Manga Entertainment finally rolled out the message board/profile section of their website. At the moment the forums seem absolutely dead, but it might still be worth a look.

In TV related news, Comcast has decided to bring the axe down on the AZN channel. Shame that. While I didn't watch it all the time I did enjoy some of their anime, movies, HK dramas and even some original programming. Their Sept/Oct horror programming has also been really good these past few years.

On the upside, this coming Monday and Tuesday brings the expansion of Sci-Fi's Ani-Monday block! On Monday their regular schedule of Tactics/Noein will be bumped in favor of... Ninja Scroll which should be... interesting. While on Tuesday they kick off the expansion with the Read Or Die OVA.

I think that's about it for now..