It's a new month, so it's time to honor the best titles from the previous.  All the titles up for nomination come from our previous month's reviews, and had a score of 8 or higher.  Our board of manga reviewers then pick the best of the best.  Winners will receive either the gold scroll, silver scroll or bronze scroll.  First, the nominations:

20th Century Boys Volume 5	Viz Media	8.5
Andromeda Stories Volume 1	Vertical Inc.	8.5
Antique Bakery Volume 1	Digital Manga Publishing	9.5
Cat Paradise Volume 1	Yen Press	9.5
Goong Volumes 5-7	Yen Press	9
Honey Hunt Volume 1	Viz Media	8
Kitchen Princess Volume 1	Del Rey Manga	8.5
Moyasimon Volume 1	Del Rey Manga	9.5
Punch Volume 1	Viz Media	8
Yen Plus November 2009	Yen Press	8.5
Yotsuba&! Volumes 1-6	Yen Press	8
Walking Butterfly Volume 1	Aurora Publishing	9

For the Brownie, nominations come from our lowest review scores of 5 or below.  This is all in good fun, in the vein of the Razzies.  The nominees are:

Magic Touch Volumes 1-2

Viz Media

4

The Blue nominations are to recognize the best of BL titles from the month.  The nominees are:

Weekend Lovers

Digital Manga Publishing

8

The votes were fairly spread out, but the winners became pretty clear.  In the case of the Brown and Blue categories, there is no automatic win.  A vote must be made for a title to receive official nomination


Yotsuba&! Volumes 1-6


Moyasimon Volume 1


Antique Bakery Volume 1


Magic Touch Volumes 1-2 (By unanimous vote)

"Magic Touch" is the definition of a rotten apple.


Weekend Lovers

After voting, our reviewers then have the option to give a minority opinion, or honorable mention to any titles they feel deserved more credit.

There were a lot of good titles this month even though the winners were pretty obvious.  Cat Paradise is a great action title with the unlikely hero team of a girl and cat.  It's really fun, and that's the way a title should be.  Goong is such addicting melodrama, that it almost makes me ashamed ot admit I love it, but I still do all the same.  20th Century Boys almost made the list, with it's twist of another time jump that keeps the story alive and kicking.  And Andromeda Stories is a strong start to a well written trilogy that should be read by more people that it has.  Give all these great titles a go.

Lori Henderson