Manga And I

Maintaining a blog and growing with it, has been an personal interest, since I began my own blog. My own blogigng life has been what I believe to be an ever changing one with writing as well as reading other blogs. There is one blogging niche that I have actively been keeping apace with, and the manga blogging community is a close knit group. Certain names are mentioned and appear time and again. Thanks in part to the Twitter networking, Google reader, and continuing blogging projects like an annual Great Manga Gift Guide recommendation list or Manga Movable Feast, it would be good to have these bloggers on your blog reading radar. This list is listed in alphabetical order, by the blogger’s first name; a link to their writing/blogs is also included with additional information about what makes them memorable bloggers. Alexander Hoffman of Manga Widget This blog has a running editorial with specific manga title that left an impression. He is honest about his assessment as he blogs. On th...

World Trigger Publisher:  Viz Media Serialized In:  Weekly Shonen Jump Story and Art:  Daisuke Ashihara New this week premiering the same day here it did in Japan is the manga  World Trigger , serialized in Viz’s weekly digital manga magazine  Weekly Shonen Jump! World Trigger  is fast paced sci-fi fun in its opening chapter, that will appeal to a few fan bases, reminding us of a cross between  Barrage  and  Yu-Yu Hakusho . One day on Earth, a gateway to another dimension opens up and these seemingly invincible monsters called “Neighbors” begin to cross over, causing all sorts of damage and havoc. However, a group called Border has been waiting in preparation for this, and sends out its members to fight against these creatures. Fast forward a little bit of time later in Mikado City. Yuma is a new student who has been studying abroad and recently transferred to his new school. He is a little odd and very short for being 15...