“The Radius”:
Title: Skip Beat 26
Artist/Author: Yoshiki Nakamura
Distributor: Viz Media
American release date: 1-3-12
Format and length: Shojo manga
Publisher/Industry Age Rating: T
Overall Personal Rating: C+
Similar series or titles to check out: Crown of Love
If you want to be an actress, what counts is the efforts that you put into it. Just how much does Kyoko have and does she really understand what she needs to do?
Synopsis:
Title: Skip Beat 25
Artist/Author: Yoshiki Nakamura
Distributor: Viz Media
American release date: Octobe 4, 2011
Format and length: Shojo manga, 184 pages
Publisher/Industry Age Rating: T
Overall Personal Rating: B-
Similar series or titles to check out: Crown of Love, Honey Hunt
If you can’t have someone’s love, at least you can drive them crazy. Looks like Valentine’s Day is the perfect day to do your best work.
Slam Dunk Volume 11
Author: Takehiko Inoue
U. S. Distributor: Viz Media
U. S. Release Date: Aug. 3rd, 2010
Format: Manga
Genre: Sports, Comedy and Drama
Age Rating: T for Teen
Overall Personal Rating: B
Similar Titles: Kuroko no Basket, Prince of Tennis, Real and even Eyeshield 21.
Our intrepid courtsters are in the grips of the quarter final battle with Shoyo. The pressure is on and can anyone step up to save the day?
Synopsis:
Title: Speed Racer: Mach Go Go Go Vol. 1
Director/Author: Tatsuo Yoshida
Distributor: eManga
American release date: December 26, 2007
Format, Genre and length: Action manga series, 299 pages
Publisher/Industry Age Rating: Teens 13+
Overall Personal Rating: A
A throwback to the classic comic book era. Get to know the classic character, a great guy with awesome skills, Speed Racer.
Synopsis:
The four chapters are individual stories, although they do build some on each other.
-Title: Star Trek The Next Generation-the Manga
-Author/Artist: D.Gerrold/E.J. Su, D. Duane/C. Delk,
C. Boylan/D. Hudson, F. Desanto/B. Kurkoski
-Distributor: Tokyopop
-American release date: 2009
- Format, Genre: Science Fiction Manga
- Publisher/Industry Age Rating: Teen- age 13+
- Overall Personal Rating: B-
The missing link between Anime/Manga and Sci/Fi . I was surprised when I saw this book, and really glad I picked it up. It is a four story collection, each with a different author and artist team – the human element survives in the future technical world.
Starting Point 1979 – 1996
Publisher: Viz Media
Distributor: Viz Media
English Release Date: Aug. 4th, 2009
Format: Hard Cover Book / 500 pages
Genre: Biography, Anime Historical Figure
Overall Personal Rating: B+
Hayao Miyazaki is arguably one of the greatest animators of our time. Starting Point 1979 – 1996 is a series of essays, interviews and memoirs that are compiled to cover the first 20 years of Hayao Miyazaki’s career.
Synopsis:
“The Radius”:
Title: Stepping on Roses Volume 7
Distributor: Viz Media
American release date: March 6, 2012
Artist and Author: Rinko Ueda
Format and length: manga, 177 pages
Genre: shojo romance
Publisher/Industry Age Rating: T+
Overall Personal Rating: A-
Sumi Kitamura and her brother, Eisuke live in a poor part of town barely getting by, yet they still take in orphans from the street. She married into money as a convience for her new husband, Soichiro Ashida, who runs a large company started by his family called Ashida Products. The marriage all started as business deal but it doesn’t stay that way, as he begins to fall in love with her.
The Radius
Title: Summoner Girl vol. 1
“The Radius”:
Author/Artist: Hiroshi Kubota
Distributor: Tokyopop
American Release Date: Nov 02, 2010
Format: Manga, 192 pages
Genre: Supernatural, Fantasy, Comedy (modern)
Publisher Age Rating: T+ for 13+ (Mild Gore, Mild Violence, Occultism)
Overall Personal Rating: C
Title: The Secret Notes of Lady Kanoko, Volume One
Artist/Author: Airiko Tsujita
Distributor: TokyoPop
Releases Date: Dec. 28th, 2010
Format and length: Shojo comedy manga, 208 pages
Publisher/Industry Age Rating: T, 13+
Overall Personal Rating: B+
Naedoko Kanoko is sort of a loner and she likes it that way. She relishes observing the school dramas, keeping her notes carefully. She is analytical and emphatic that she is objective and keeps it that way by avoiding any sort of friendships or social interactions. Or so she says and so she tries, but life has a way of sneaking in.
Title: The Stellar Six
Author:Yuuki Fujimoto
Distributor: TokyoPop
Format: Manga, 208 pages
Genre: Comedy
Publisher Age Rating:13+
Overall Personal Rating: B
Friendships can be forever, but only if you work at them. A group of 6 kids have spent their childhood growing up around the Gingacho Market where their families have stores. Kuro and Mike have always been close, they still are. Now in high school, their new lives are pulling at them, threatening the time they have together.
Synopsis
Title: The Story of Saiunkoku Volume 7
Distributor: Viz Media
American release date: May 1, 2012
Author: Sai Yukino
Artist: Kairi Yura
Format: Manga
Genre: Shojo Drama
Publisher Age Rating: T
Overall Personal Rating: B
Previous Volumes: Saiunkoku 1,2,3,4,5,6
As it is time to make choices and work for their futures, the characters must decide to keep on the path they are on or take a leap in another direction but there may be obstacles in their way.
Synopsis:
Title: The Story of Saiunkoku
volume 3
Author: Sai Yukino (Kadokawa Shoten)
Illustrator: Kairi Yura
American Publisher: Viz Media
American Release Date: February 1, 2011
Age Rating: T for Teen
Format and length: Manga, 4 chapters
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Shojo
Overall Personal Rating: B
Similar Titles:
Cross Game, Honey & Clover, kimi ni todoke: From Me to You and Ouran Highschool Host Club
Title: The Story of Saiunkoku
volume 4
Author: Sai Yukino (Kadokawa Shoten)
Illustrator: Kairi Yura
American Publisher: Viz Media
American Release Date: August 2, 2011
Age Rating: T
Format and length: Manga, 4 chapters
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Shojo
Overall Personal Rating: B+
Titles in the Radius: Cross Game, Honey & Clover, kimi ni todoke: From Me to You and Ouran Highschool Host Club
Do we ever know the persons we meet? Everyone wears a mask or has something they keep secret from the public. The Story of Saiunkoku has two members in it thus far who shield themselves behind such veils of secrecy for their own reasons.
