Minare Koda is mad. She’s mad about the breakup with her boyfriend. She’s so mad she decides to go drinking and rant to the stranger sitting next to her. It turns out that stranger works for the radio. And he records her whole rant. And …Read more »
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was one of the most successful video games of 2019. So, in 2020, we have the manga Sekiro Side Story: Hanbei the Undying. The manga opens with war and power-hungry leaders in the Sengoku Period of Japan. If you look at …Read more »
An unnamed chef inherited a very special restaurant from his grandfather. Sometimes the restaurant is called Western Restaurant Nekoya. And sometimes it’s called Restaurant to Another World. That’s because on Monday through Friday the restaurant serves humans. On Saturday, it serves mythological and folkloric creatures. …Read more »
Mio likes listening to the radio, because it helps her feel less alone. At the same time, she prefers to be alone, because being around other people makes her phobic. She is a student at a correspondence school, while her popular fraternal twin brother Yuta …Read more »
Junji Ito, one of Japan’s masters of horror manga, has his own art book out at long last: Twisted Visions. It’s a pretty good title that covers Ito’s knack for depicting darkness, the absurd, and the creepy. The book opens with art samples from Tomie, …Read more »
Cells at Work!, the popular franchise about anthropomorphized cells that makes biology fun and goofy, has expanded into several spinoff manga series, including Cells at Work and Friends! The Red Blood Cell and White Blood Cell we know and love from the original manga are …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 »
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 »
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 »
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