The small pink alien Kirby stars in his own video game franchise, anime, and manga, so why not have an art book about him? Kirby: Art & Style Collection was originally published in Japan in 2017, to celebrate the 25 years since Kirby’s creation in …Read more »
VIZ’s One Piece Color Walk Compendium: Water Seven to Paramount War is a great source of artwork and information for fans of One Piece. Open the book and the first thing you see is a long, fold-out scroll of the characters. And if you open …Read more »
Love in high school can be confusing. Taichi Ichinose has been friends with Toma since they were kids, and Toma is the coolest boy around. He’s smart, friendly, good-looking and athletic. No wonder Taichi likes him so much. But if there’s someone Taichi wants nothing …Read more »
Beck opens with 14-year-old Yukio Tanaka complaining about how boring his life is. But the manga is never boring, and Yukio quickly finds his life changing. He has a number of things going on with him that teenagers can relate to, including getting a crush …Read more »
20-year-old Shin loves playing video games. The New Gate opens with him appearing as if inside the game itself, fighting a boss. The marvels of virtual reality! He defeats the boss, wins the game, and gets ready to log out with his fellow gamers. But while …Read more »
Shy 19-year-old college student Yuki is on the train when a man tries asking her for directions. Yuki wears a hearing aid and all noise sounds like white noise to her, and she gets flustered and doesn’t know what to do. A male college student …Read more »
Fruits Basket, one of the most successful shojo franchises of all time, is having a comeback. Along with a new version of the anime, there are new Fruits Basket spinoff manga on the way from mangaka Natsuki Takaya—Fruits Basket: The Three Musketeers and Fruits Basket Another. Yen …Read more »
People sometimes do outrageous things when partying. Like Kaede. She got drunk and invited a dinosaur to be her roommate. There’s no explanation of where Dino came from or how a dinosaur would still be alive, because that’s not the point of this manga. It’s …Read more »
Like many teenage girls in the world, Azusa is obsessed with a boy band. She’s given her heart to band member Chikashi Chida and has plastered her room with posters of him. But unlike many teenage girls, Azusa actually gets to body swap with her …Read more »
VIZ’s new manga series Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku stars swordswoman Asaemon Yamada. While she and her story may be fiction, her name is well-known in Japan and tied deeply with sword history. Japan has a long history of sword-making, and their swords (called nihonto in Japanese) …Read more »
Beheading someone well takes a lot of skill. Gabimaru would know. He’s an assassin from a clan where all the men are supposed to be warriors. And he’s about to be beheaded himself, right on page 1 of Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku. But wouldn’t you know …Read more »
What’s Michael? is an endearing and funny manga about cats that was originally published in Japan in the 80s. Though it was previously published in America, it went out of print for years, much to the chagrin of fans. Now Dark Horse is re-releasing it …Read more »
Saya and Yuto were friends in middle school. Saya was relatively popular, but Yuto was a shaggy, bespectacled nerd ignored by other students. The two of them like playing video games together and he suggests they date. Why not? But when high school starts, Yuto …Read more »
Asahi is one of the dumb kids at her school. The school—and the smart students—look down on people like her. The smart kids even wear a slightly different uniform from the kids deemed dumb, so everyone can know who takes school seriously and who doesn’t. …Read more »
Shortly after the news that Dragon Ball Z Abridged ended, Team Four Star began releasing videos on how exactly they made this fan-favorite fan series. They first released a 14-minute video about their work on the Saiyan Saga, with DBZA co-creators Lanipator and KaiserNeko explaining …Read more »
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