Hagio has worked steadily since the 1970s, producing a variety of science fiction works ' A, A' (1981), Marginal (1985-87), Barbara Ikai (2002-05) ' and dramas ' Mesh (1980-84), A Cruel God Reigns (1993-2001). Over the last thirty years, she has received numerous honors, including the Seiun Prize for Best Science Fiction Manga (1980, 1983, 1985), the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize (1997), and San Diego Comic-Con's Inkpot Award (2010). Earlier this year, Hagio became the first female manga-ka to receive Japan's prestigious Medal of Honor in recognition of her substantial artistic achievements.
Curious about Hagio's work? Several prominent English-language critics have interviewed Hagio, including Shaenon Garrity, Carlo Santos, and, of course, scholar Matt Thorn. Additionally, Deb Aoki has published a complete transcript of Moto Hagio's 2010 talk at San Diego Comic-Con, which includes Hagio's Q&A session with audience members.
But wait' there's more!
Animation | If you've been curious about Princess Jellyfish, Serdar Yegulalp has a thoughtful review. 'What could have been a dim-witted, gimmicky premise is turned instead into one of the best shows of 2012'loaded with heart, soul, humor and insight, and which even gets a little deeper each time you come back to it,' he argues. [About Anime]
Animation | Ben Ettinger's meticulous analysis of Kids on the Slope has persuaded me that I need to start watching this show stat. Now if only someone would license the manga' [Anipages]
Animation | Caleb Goellner interviews voice actress Janet Varney about her role on The Legend of Korra, the sequel to Nickelodeon's enormously popular Avatar: The Last Airbender. [Comics Alliance]
Comics | Dash Shaw uses Jeffrey Brown's Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations as a jumping-off point for exploring what he dubs CAA, or cat appreciation art. [The Comics Journal]
Comics | Words like 'crazy,' 'awesome,' and 'whoa nelly' are almost beside the point when describing Vom Marlowe's one-of-a-kind fan comic, Wonder Woman and the Space Crocs of Nikszkelion. Go, read! [The Hooded Utilitarian]
Manga | Speaking of the Magnificent 49ers, Jocelyn Allen offers a delightful (if spoiler-rific) review of Keiko Takemiya's Kaze to Ki no Uta, better known in English as The Song of the Wind in the Trees. 'I simply can't get over how unrelenting this series is,' Allen declares. 'This could be terrible in the wrong hands, but with Takemiya at the helm, it is an incredibly powerful way to reach the hearts of her target audience: pre-teen and teenage girls. Because this is really what it feels like to be that age, on the threshold of puberty, opening the door to adulthood and everything! is! so! dramatic! Everything is a crisis of epic proportions.' [Book vs. Brain]
Manga | File this under Better Late Than Never: I just discovered the manga habit, a delightful blog covering josei, shoujo, and BL manga. If you need an incentive to learn Japanese, the author's previews of untranslated titles will do the trick. [the manga habit]
Manga | The winners of the 36th annual Kodansha Manga Awards were announced this week. Among the honorees were Setona Mizushiro's Shitsuren Chocolatier (Best Shojo Manga) and Makoto Yukimura's Vinland Saga (Best General Manga). [Anime News Network]
Manga | The eyes have it: author Matt Alt explores eye motifs in manga. [Alt Japan]
Manga | Khursten Santos files a detailed report on volumes one and two of The Flowers of Evil. [Otaku Champloo]
Manga | In his latest House of 1000 Manga column, Jason Thompson looks at the fascinating but flawed Dragon Head, an apocalyptic horror story published by Tokyopop in the mid-2000s. 'Dragon Head is a very, very well-done manga for the first two volumes, but then it sort of drifts off,' he observes. 'Reading Dragon Head is an interesting glimpse of how manga stories are structured so that they could end at certain points or get expanded if they're popular enough.' [Anime News Network]
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