I think I should stop making my titles into questions, but this is quite an issue we are talking about. While surfing the web for some manga news, Lori Henderson from Manga Xanadu posted an editorial that ranted on the School Library Journal’s choice for “Best Books for 2009″ (though Henderson pointed out that the [...]

It’s been awhile since I wrote another for the blog. But I’m curious to know one thing. When you read a manga and there are numerous cliches in the story, is it okay? You’ve heard my take on the subject of walking cliches, but I wonder about other people’s opinions. For those who don’t know [...]

We’ve all done it before. When we don’t want to solve that impossible math problem, when we don’t want to remember all those Latin-based biology terms, when we don’t want to write that stupid essay due tomorrow, we do something else that is more fun. Video games, television, and the internet are some of the [...]

Continuing with this ongoing series of manga character cliches we wish to stop seeing, we will be looking into one that affects shoujo manga titles (and some shounen) very much: the clueless chick. The girl that zones out to collect her thoughts when someone is talking to her. The girl that can’t put two and [...]

Sorry for the lack of update, but things became a little slow when I left on vacation. But since I’m back, let’s look into annoying character cliches that really need to stop being created. Here we will look at the honest to goody-goody, saint/holy man or woman that should be God’s right hand. That is [...]

I was just recently thinking about a canceled show that had a great storyline and concept behind it. That show was My Name is Earl. The show started with a white trash hick named Earl Hickey who did petty crimes for a living. One day he wins the lottery, one of the scratching ticket types. [...]

Is anime better than American animation? We have continued the discussion from the last post which covered reasons 9 to 5. This post will continue the rebuttal from reasons 4 to 1. For those who want to see the original post that started it all, go over to Mania.com and read. Now without further interruptions, [...]

Last week there was a post floating around about anime being better than cartoons. While that title brings forth irony, in that anime is a form of cartoons as well, I think what the author meant to say was anime is better than American animation. It sparked many comments from all sides, and I think [...]

While I was going around the web for some manga news, I found an interesting post about the New York Times Best Sellers List regarding manga in their “Graphic Books” section. The post is an open letter to the New York Times asking them to find someone who can clearly present an unbiased view on [...]

This is a genuine question that I’m curious about: is reading manga seen as feminine? I mean socially. If you want my view on the question, I’m going to have to say yes. I don’t have the statistics on the number of female and male readers, though I assume that there are more female readers [...]