Tag: manga
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Manga Publishers: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know (And Probably More Than That)
Follow me on Twitter for more manga talk: https://twitter.com/manga_librarian Like what I do? Consider supporting my school library by purchasing a student request! https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/YFUM4D17XWD1?ref_=wl_share Resources: VIZ: https://www.viz.com/ https://twitter.com/VIZMedia TOKYOPOP: https://twitter.com/TOKYOPOP Red Bard’s Videos on TOKYOPOP: https://youtu.be/gbKFejwLlUY https://youtu.be/sfvWvKHxUmo Kodansha: https://kodansha.us/ https://twitter.com/KodanshaManga Dark Horse: https://twitter.com/DarkHorseComics Seven Seas Entertainment: https://sevenseasentertainment.com/ https://twitter.com/gomanga Drawn & Quarterly: https://drawnandquarterly.com/ https://twitter.com/DandQ Fantagraphics (previously…
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Book Lists for When Your School Has Anime Planet Blocked
I’ve heard from some of you that Anime Planet, the list aggregator I use for title recommendations, is blocked at your schools! This is frustrating, and I suspect comes from schools using sweeping blocks of words like anime. I have for those of you impacted by this a collection of all of my lists in…
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Manga and Anime Featuring Food
This is a list of manga which you may want to consider when selecting specifically with food, cooking, and eating in mind. These aren’t formal reviews, but I’ll link to a formal review when and if I do them. This new format is to get you acquainted with multiple titles at once. Food Wars!: Shokugeki…
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Series Review: Fruits Basket
Title: Fruits Basket フルーツバスケット Mangaka: Natsuki Takaya 高屋 奈月 US Publisher: Formerly TokyoPop, now Yen Press Status: Complete. Level: Middle School, High School How Essential Is It?: Must Have Curricular Connections?: N/A Reader’s Advisory Tags: Grief, abuse. Anime: 2001: Funimation, Hulu. 2019: Funimation, Crunchyroll. Content Warnings: Discussions of mental and physical abuse. Fruits Basket, commonly…
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Manga and Women: Buying Manga for School Libraries in the #MeToo Era
When I talk to other school librarians about manga and anime, many of them voice a similar concern: the manga they see has horrible treatment of women. These are not invalid concerns, especially as school librarians are working to make their collections more inclusive and affirming. And when students are requesting series that depict sexual…
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Series Review: Ouran High School Host Club
Title: Ouran High School Host Club / Ōran Kōkō Hosuto Kurabu 桜蘭高校ホスト部 Mangaka: Bisco Hatori 葉鳥ビスコ US Publisher: Viz Media Status: Complete Level: Middle & High School How Essential Is It?: Must Have Curricular Connections?: N/A Reader’s Advisory Tags: humor, school stories, shoujo, non-binary character Anime: Funimation, Netflix, Hulu. Content Warnings: Some light innuendos, occasional…
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Series Review: Naruto
Title: Naruto ナルト Mangaka: Masashi Kishimoto 岸本 斉史 US Publisher: VIZ Media Status: Complete Level: Upper Middle and High School How Essential Is It?: Must Have (in high school) Curricular Connections?: N/A Reader’s Advisory Tags: action, adventure, ninjas, school Anime: Available through Crunchyroll Content Warnings: Some crude humor and nudity, violence. Naruto is probably a…
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