Announcing the Second Manga Moveable Feast
In response to The Hooded Utilitarian’s roundtable on CLAMP’s xxxHoLic, a number of manga bloggers on Twitter had a conversation one Friday night about a blogging experiment that might be fun to try, that exploded into an actual blogging experiment:
The first Manga Moveable Feast was hosted by David Welsh at The Manga Curmudgeon and 14 bloggers participated, and David also went the extra mile and landed an interview with Viz editor David Searleman. It’s a tough job to step in and try to follow his excellent example. (Thanks and praise are both due to David for launching the MMF in such grand style.)
For the second MMF, consensus at the time (prev. cited twitter conversation of 22 Jan) was to focus on Kaoru Mori’s 10-vol. manga series Emma (CMX).
I’d also like to invite reviews and views of the one-shot Shirley (by the same author), and also the anime adaptation of Emma. [I’ll permit anime in this case because I happen to like the Emma anime, and also to return a favour: Nozomi/RightStuf have posted online previews of the first seven volumes of the manga to http://emma.rightstuf.com/emmaPreview/index.html. It would be nice if any anime reviews at least referenced the manga; bonus points for any review that uses one as a lens to examine the other.]
As host, I’ll write an introduction to the series and also post daily updates with all the new reviews & articles that are submitted to me. You can review any single volume, or group of volumes, or a series overview — or simply email me with a link to a review (or reviews) you’ve already written. March’s MMF will nominally run the week of 8 March — I’ll start posting reviews and reflections a tad early, beginning on Saturday 6 March.
Any and all submissions are welcome; if you are fan without a blog or other web space, I’ll be happy to host your review on my site. Anyone who would like to participate should email matt [at] rocketbomber [dot] com, with either your questions or links to your reviews.
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Please also read this post: Soliciting Nominations for the Third MMF
