Entries from November 2009

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Happy Fifth Birthday, Del Rey Manga!

In the early noughties there was a sudden surge of interest in manga in the USA, resulting in several publishing houses establishing their own lines of manga in English translation. Some have fared better than others – and now, one of the best-established of them all, Del Rey Manga, has recently celebrated five successful years [...]

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Fast and Frightening - The Women of Gunsmith Cats & Black Lagoon

When I began reading the Kenichi Sonoda’s Gunsmith Cats not long ago, I was almost immediately struck by the similarities between it and Rei Hiroe’s Black Lagoon. Both are action packed guns blazing stories but what I particularly noticed and enjoyed was the focus on the tough, independent female characters who feature prominently in both [...]