Bookshelf Briefs is a weekly collection of short reviews (100-150 words) from the Manga Bookshelf crew covering both recent releases and some blasts from the past. These are the columns to which I’ve contributed.
3/28/11 Metropolis
4/4/11 Library Wars: Love & War 4
4/11/11 K-ON! 2
4/18/11 Karakuri Odette 6 and Time and Again 5
5/2/11 Dengeki Daisy 4
5/9/11 Kizuna Deluxe Edition 2, Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura 1, and Silver Diamond 9
5/16/11 Genkaku Picasso 3
5/23/11 Saturn Apartments 3
6/6/11 Bakuman。 5, Chi’s Sweet Home 6, and Itsuwaribito 2
6/13/11 Ouran High School Host Club 16
6/20/11 Higurashi When They Cry: Demon Exposing Arc and Moon and Blood 1
6/27/11 Bleach 35 and Blue Exorcist 2
7/4/11 Cross Game 4 and Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura 2
7/11/11 Maid Shokun 1 and Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan 3
7/18/11 Arisa 3, Black Butler 6, and Skip Beat! 24
7/25/11 RIN-NE 6 and Shugo Chara! 11
8/1/11 K-ON! 3 and Nabari No Ou 7
8/8/11 13th Boy 8, Fairy Tail 14, and I Am Here! 2
8/15/11 Kamisama Kiss 4 and The Story of Saiunkoku 4
8/22/11 Itazura Na Kiss 6 and Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee 6
8/29/11 Bokurano: Ours 4 and Oresama Teacher 4
9/5/11 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 2
9/19/11 One Piece 58
9/26/11 Shugo Chara! 12, This Night’s Everything, and Warning! Whispers of Love
10/3/11 A Liar in Love
10/10/11 Entangled Circumstances and Tonight’s Take-Out Night
10/24/11 Stargazing Dog
10/31/11 Raiders 7 and Vampire Knight 13
11/7/11 Pandora Hearts 7 and Yotsuba&! 10
11/14/11 Arata: The Legend 8 and Tired of Waiting for Love
11/21/11 Full House 6 and RIN-NE 7
11/28/11 Only Serious About You 1
12/5/11 About Love and The Innocent
1/2/12 Kobato. 5 and My Girlfriend’s a Geek 5
1/9/12 Chi’s Sweet Home 7
1/16/12 13th Boy 10 and Bleach 36-37
1/23/12 Bokurano: Ours 5 and Pandora Hearts 8
1/30/12 Full Bloom 1 and The Song of Rainfall
2/6/12 Arisa 6 and Cross Game 6
2/13/12 Dengeki Daisy 8 and Only Serious About You 2
2/27/12 Ata and No Longer Human 3
3/12/12 Arata: The Legend 9
3/19/12 Nabari No Ou 9
4/2/12 Devil’s Honey and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 4
4/9/12 Ekiben Hitoritabi 2 and GTO: 14 Days in Shonan 2
4/16/12 Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You 13
4/23/12 Skip Beat! 27
5/7/12 Kamisama Kiss 8 and Psyren 4
5/21/12 Itazura Na Kiss 8
5/29/12 Black Butler 9 and Cross Game 7
6/4/12 Ai Ore! 5
6/11/12 Gokudou Meshi 2 and The Story of Saiunkoku 7
6/18/12 A Devil and Her Love Song 3
7/9/12 Dawn of the Arcana 4 and Ouran High School Host Club 18
7/16/12 Kobato. 6 and Slam Dunk 22
7/30/12 Oresama Teacher 9
8/13/12 Alice in the Country of Clover: Cheshire Cat Waltz 1
8/20/12 Ooku: The Inner Chambers 7
9/10/12 The Flowers of Evil 2
9/17/12 Lizzie Newton: Victorian Mysteries 1 and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 7
10/1/12 Arata: The Legend 11 and Yotsuba&! 11
10/8/12 Drops of God: New World and Jiu Jiu 2
10/22/12 The Flowers of Evil 3, Library Wars: Love & War 8, and Skip Beat! 29
11/5/12 Bleach 50-51
11/12/12 Durarara!! 4, Oresama Teacher 11, and We Were There 15
11/19/12 Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You 15 and Pandora Hearts 12
11/26/12 Ai Ore! 7 and RIN-NE 10
12/3/12 Aron’s Absurd Armada 1, Natsume’s Book of Friends 13, and Soulless: The Manga 2
12/10/12 Real 11
12/17/12 Cross Game 8
12/24/12 My Darling Kitten Hair 2
12/31/12 Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit 1 and Crazy for You 4
1/7/13 Jiu Jiu 3 and Strobe Edge 2
1/15/13 Raiders 9
1/29/13 Skip Beat! 30 and Slam Dunk 26
2/11/13 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 9
2/25/13 Alice in the Country of Joker: Circus and Liar’s Game 1 and Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden 11
3/4/13 BTOOOM! 1
3/11/13 Demon Love Spell 2 and Umineko: When They Cry Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch 2
3/18/13 Strobe Edge 3
3/25/13 Dawn of the Arcana 9
4/1/13 The Story of Saiunkoku 9
4/8/13 Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You 16
4/29/13 Bunny Drop 8 and We Were There 16
5/5/13 A Devil and Her Love Song 8
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