Found: The Rough Guide to Manga
The nice thing about this feature is how quick I can write up a post, and how it gives the illusion of regular, substantive updates so long as I can find a cover photo or two to add visual bulk to what is, in actual point of fact, just a quick fifteen minute write-up.
Oh, but the gems I can find (not Yaoi Gems; well, not always — though there is in fact a Yaoi Gems Pack, that’s isbn 9781933664392 for the y-curious) and I seem to be casting my net further and further out: out of print, not yet released, smaller publishers, first-time manga publishers…
or established reference publishers coming to manga for the first time:
Found:
The Rough Guide to Manga by Jason Yadeo, coming August 2009. This appears to be Yadeo’s first work, which isn’t an accusation (just a citation, as I can find no previous works and a cursory Google search pulls up “The Rough Guide to Manga” on sales sites for the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Finland, the Czech Republic… Japan
[*ouch*] I think a rapidly closing recursive loop just strangled a chunk of my brain.
No Cover Pictures Yet. But Rough Guides had previously presented both the Rough Guide to Japan (travel guides are their bread and butter) and the Rough Guide to Graphic Novels.
