Personal Review: Spice & Wolf vol.1

Review By Jong Chung

Spice & Wolf is Isuna Hasekura's debut work, which was first published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint in Feb 10, 2006. Since then, there have been a total of 13 volumes in print . We are able to enjoy the Spice & Wolf series in English thanks to Yen Press' ever-impressive efforts.

Personal Review: Faust 2

Review By Jong Chung

It was after classes that I had found myself browsing through random manga and light novels at my local Japanese book store. It was then that my eyes met with a book sporting one of the most colorful (and distinctly Japanese) covers that I've seen on the shelves. Of course, curiosity kicked in. Picking the rather small volume up, its caption line drew me in from the get-go: “Fiction and Manga from the cutting edge of Japanese Pop Culture.”

Naruto is Number 6

According to Yahoo!, Naruto got the sixth spot for the top ten searches of 2009. The anime is right behind Britney Spears, but beat the reality show American Idol. The following is the list of top ten searches:

1- Michael Jackson
2- The Twilight Saga
3- WWE
4- Megan Fox
5- Britney Spears
6- Naruto
7- American Idol
8- Kim Kardashian
9- NASCAR
8- RuneScape

Here is the link to Naruto on "Yahoo! Year in Review 2009." All the winners for in a manual sideshow format.

All I got to say is that it is awesome to see an anime get into the top ten!

Congratulations to everyone!
© 2009 Linda Thai