For this month’s MMF, I wanted to review something a little different—two new artbooks by Yumi Tamura. While they’re not available in English, they are fairly easy to find, and Tamura’s beautiful art doesn’t need to be read to be enjoyed. Natsu, a high school girl who is so shy that her only friend is her cat, sits down to a meal with her family and, oddly enough, it’s … [Read more...] about Yumi Tamura: Two Artbooks
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Chatting About Canon
The following discussion contains spoilers. MICHELLE: As we did for the CLAMP Manga Moveable Feast, special guest Karen Peck and I decided to collaborate on a contribution. This month's MMF theme is vampires, so we opted (actually, this was totally Karen's brainwave) to talk about Canon, the four-volume Chika Shiomi shoujo series published by CMX. I really didn't know what … [Read more...] about Chatting About Canon
Chatting About CLAMP
The following discussion contains spoilers. MICHELLE: For this month's CLAMP Manga Moveable Feast, special guest Karen Peck and I decided to weigh in on couple of the quartet's shorter works, namely Suki (complete in three volumes) and Legal Drug (unfinished in three volumes, but newly relaunched in Japan under the name Drug & Drop). I'd heard these series were related … [Read more...] about Chatting About CLAMP
Let’s Get Visual: A Tale of Two Series
MICHELLE: You didn't think we were going to let a CLAMP MMF go by without devoting a special Let's Get Visual column to it, did you? (Insert a Hokuto Sumeragi "ho ho ho" laugh here.) It's an absolute must for a group like CLAMP, whose output is so diverse, not merely in the realms of story and demographic, but also artistically speaking. In fact, I had a pretty tough time … [Read more...] about Let’s Get Visual: A Tale of Two Series
Takehiko Inoue MMF Roundaup: Part Four
It's the fourth quarter, and your co-hosts have banded together to take you through the final stretch! Anna joins me for a special Let's Get Visual column dedicated to Inoue's artwork, where we discuss pages from Real and Vagabond. And speaking of Vagabond, we both weigh in on the series, with Anna tackling the two most recent VIZBIG editions to be released (nine and ten) … [Read more...] about Takehiko Inoue MMF Roundaup: Part Four