Things We Learned From the AMA
Kodansha USA did an Ask Me Anything on reddit last week. Although I was unable to participate, there were some interesting questions asked, and a little data here and there that are worth exploring. 1....
View ArticleReview: From the New World, Vol. 1
The relationship between manga and anime is a fruitful one; anime studios may pick a popular manga to adapt into a television show, a manga might be written as an adaptation of a popular anime work....
View ArticleManga Thanksgiving 2013
It’s been a few years since I did a Thanksgiving post; hopefully everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving in the USA, and a safe Black Friday. This year I wanted to make a highlights real of all the...
View ArticleReview: Pink
Kyoko Okazaki is one of the greatest mangaka to see publication in 2013. Her work is the foundation that many of my favorite josei mangaka have built from, and her influence is evident in the work of...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on 2013
It has been somewhat of an eventful year in the world of English manga publishing. From the dominance of Attack on Titan to the closure of PictureBox, this is the Manga Widget 2013 year in review;...
View ArticleReview: 7 Billion Needles, Vols. 1-4
Manga routinely goes out of print, especially if the series didn’t do well financially, or if it comes from a small publisher. Such is the case with Nobuaki Tadano’s 7 Billion Needles, published by...
View ArticleLessons From the Crater Project
In May of 2013, an indie publisher, Kansai Club Publishing, set in motion a Kickstarter project to fund the printing of a Tezuka classic, Crater. The critics community was pretty excited. We had seen...
View ArticleReview: Sunny, Vol. 1
Taiyo Matsumoto has a penchant for writing stories about children. Rough children, broken, eccentric children, but children all the same, with children’s hopes and dreams. And most importantly,...
View ArticleMini Review: Very Casual by Michael DeForge
I’m trying to explore the world of indie comics a little more. To do so without reading the work of Michael DeForge would probably be a mistake. Very Casual is a collection of short stories and...
View ArticleAu Revoir
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, Manga Widget has been fairly silent for the past year or so. There have been brief periods of activity, flurries of inspiration, but ultimately, I haven’t been updating the...
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