AnimeVice News

Yesterday I talked about the School Library Journal's recommendation of Del Rey’s Me and the Devil Blues, and today the SLJ popped up again: this time, they got a few librarians to talk about what kids are checking out from the shelves, and a few manga appeared…though I wonder how much the librarians really know about these titles. For example, one librarian from said:

Manga is still a big draw, especially Nobuhiro Watsuki’s “Shojo Beat” and Kazune Kawahara’s High School Debut (2008, both Viz Media).

She’s probably talking about the Shojo Beat magazine, which may have featured Rurouni Kenshin and Buso Renkin's creator, Nobuhiro Watsuki, in the past...I guess. And then there’s this librarian:

Manga mania has not escaped us, with Maki Murakami’s “Gravitation” (Tokyopop) pulling in new readers every week.

Either the library doesn’t know much about Gravitation, or it’s a very cool school—it’s hard to imagine that many schools would want to potentially brush up against angry parents by carrying a yaoi manga, even if it’s not hardcore.