Submit Your Manga Review to AAW

AAW is looking for a few good, well-read fans to stock our new manga review section, and maybe you can help.

Guidelines: Although we appreciate all the input we get, submissions using this form will be held to a reasonably strict standard of quality, which you can probably get an idea of by looking at some of the anime reader reviews. If you've got enough to say, your review will probably be selected and published as the (or one of the) Reader Reviews for the title, and you'll be given proper credit. If and when an "official" review is written, your review will remain as an alternate opinion.

Also, if there is an anime adaptation and you've seen it, at least a quick mention of how it stacks up to the manga version would be appreciated. This is Akemi's Anime World, after all.

Disclaimer: Submissions that are selected may be slightly edited for grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and will be chosen by the whims of the editorial staff; if yours isn't selected, please don't take offense--it's really not personal. Posting may also take a while, so please be patient. All that said, if you're up for it, get writing--we're anxious to see what you've got to say!

Formatting Tips

Typing your review in a text editor like Microsoft Word is a very good idea, since you can save it as you go and check your spelling, but "curly quotes" don't work well on the web; please turn them off if you can, to save us having to manually replace them.
Lots of paragraph breaks make writing easier to read; to make a break just leave a blank line. Please don't do indenting, though.
Text will be automatically processed with EtText; because of this, if you want to include bold or italic text, do so by writing it like this: **bold** or __italic__ .
If you prefer writing your own HTML, you're welcome to, but we'll probably edit it to match our formatting guidelines.

The Form

About You

Your Name/Handle: (to go with your review)
E-Mail Address: (please note: although we understand privacy and spam concerns, we prefer to have a bit of accountability to go with the reviews we publish, so we require a valid e-mail address. We will format the addres in such a way as to make it difficult to automatically harvest. If you have other concerns, feel free to note them in the additional comments section below.)

Manga Details

English Title: (please be specific)
Original Title: (if you know it) (optional)

Writer:
Artist: (if different)

Version I'm Reviewing:
Official Translation Fan Translation Other

Current Length: (in volumes/chapters) (if the series isn't complete, please note how much you've read)
Genre: (specific) (optional; examples: "Ninja Romance"; "Time Traveling Comedy")

Broad Genre:
Action Comedy Drama Romance Sci-fi Adventure Comedy-Drama Children

Writing

Plot Synopsis: (a short rundown on the story)

Your Review:

Your Rating:
Bottom Line (a one sentence summary of your opinion):

Notes: (any notes on the production that don't fit in your review)

Parental Guide

Select a general age category:
Any additional parental notes: (specifics optional)

Violence Level:
Any specifics: (specifics optional)

Nudity Level:
Any specifics: (specifics optional)

Sex/Mature Themes Level:
Any specifics: (specifics optional)

Language Level:
Any specifics: (specifics optional)

Extra Stuff

Sequels/Spinoffs/Anime Adaptations: (if there are any)

Related Recommendations: (other manga that you think are similar)

Any Additional Comments: (not posted, but please include your e-mail address here if you'd like a reply)

A Brief Bio of You: (totally optional, and you only need submit this once; it will be linked to your review(s) to give people an idea of your perspective as a reviewer. As long or short as you want)

Legal Junk: By submitting a review through this form, you affirm that you are the writer of the review, have the right to give it away, and grant AAW the permanant right to publish your review. That's about it.

Akemi's Anime World