Sleep Is For the Weak

It’s a little lame, but I only updated the Reviews and Mini Reviews archives and the Vampire Knight review a little bit (I really wanted to link to an amusing MMV in there). Still, in other news, did you all hear about Youka Nitta? She’s the most recent mangaka to pretty much lose her career [...]

I reviewed a seinen for today, but I cheated – it’s the unlicensed What Did You Eat Yesterday?, Fumi Yoshinaga’s current serial in Morning magazine. I’m a cheater – what can I say? I also updated the Reviews and Mini Reviews archives to reflect the last several months worth of updates. Also, in TOTALLY AWESOME [...]

Since Tokyopop is still all over the news, I thought it was time to share a story. When I was 17 years old, I read in the now-long-gone Smile magazine that Tokyopop was going to publish children’s novels based on the Sailor Moon anime. The prose snippet in the ad was pretty bland, and being [...]

As a long-time freelancer for Tokyopop, the last two weeks have been completely surreal. I lost almost every one of my editors in the big lay-off last week, which sucks really hard because I consider all of them my friends. I’m in mourning right now. I’ve been told that the series I’m working on (Fruits [...]

NotHayama and I are working Anime North for the next three days, specifically for the best comic store in North America. I’ll be trying to sell full sets of The Young Magician to everyone who passes by. NotHayama has some elaborate plan involving Basara, since the final volume of that (27) just came out last [...]

Who here is following Let Dai off netcomics.com? And read Chapter 4 of Volume 14? That comic is so damn dark it’s honestly started to scare the crap out of me. It’s like the murder in Michael Clayton – a million times creepier because you can actually imagine it happening. I love Let Dai, don’t [...]

As you probably noticed, we’re having a really rough week. Our next update will be Thursday. In the meantime, go to Free Comic Book Day this Saturday! NotHayama’s working a kid’s library branch of it, so I expect children will be swarming her for Owlie and possibly dragging her into a pile for some severe [...]

Oh my God. Look at this: http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/04/22/another-look-at-the-manga-style-wolverine-x-men/#more-7927 No no! Even better, look at this: I didn’t ask Anzu or Del Ray or even Newsarama if I could post that, so I may have to take it down later. But look at it! And then go read the article, and the absolutely precious comments. Can’t all [...]

So I guess Scott Pilgrim may actually become a movie. With, like, Michael Cera. I think we should try to get in the film as extras, since it’ll be filmed down the street and NotHayama’s boss is one of the characters in the comic. I wanna be one of the girls in the library who [...]

I couldn’t decide what to review for today – I’ve left all the exciting new titles for NotHayama’s next few updates. So I decided to do something new: a review of a company, specifically Netcomics. I work for Tokyopop, DMP, and Wizard, and all these reviews are written for free, so no worries – there [...]