Sorry about the weekend quietness, but I was at a RennFaire. I’m back now!

The American Library Association has nominated another round of books for its Young Adult Library Services Association Award, and as usual, some manga made it to the list of “great graphic novels.” A lot of them are OEL, but here goes:

Let’s see, going down the list from top to bottom:

  • TOKYOPOP’s Avalon High manga, based on Meg Cabot’s novel series.
  • Dramacon, by the much-celebrated Svetlana Chmakova.
  • The Avril Lavigne manga Make 5 Wishes.
  • Anike Hage’s original German-language manga Gothic Sports.
  • Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino is the first actual Japanese manga mentioned.
  • Yuji Iwahara’s King of Thorn.
  • Hideyuki Kurata’s Train + Train.
  • Mizuho Kusanagi’s Spiral.
  • Yasunori Mitsunaga’s Princess Resurrection.
  • Setona Mizushiro’s After School Nightmare (all four volumes!).
  • Kaoru Mori’s Emma (all four volumes).
  • Sho Murase’s Me2.
  • Aya Nakahara’s Love*Com/Lovely Complex.
  • Noriko Ogiwara / Haruhiko Momokawa’s The Good Witch of the West volume 1.
  • Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet by Richard Appignanesi and Sonia Leong.
  • Yellow Tanabe’s Kekkaishi, volumes 7-9.
  • Yuki Urushibara’s Mushishi.
  • Fumi Yoshinaga’s The Moon and the Sandals.

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