Centaurs is a medieval fantasy where centaurs live in Japan and are used by humans in war. Matsukaze, the protagonist, is a large, powerful centaur who is captured by humans while trying to protect his son. Taken into captivity, he soon learns that centaurs often …Read more »
BL and yaoi are known for sharing stories of forbidden love, but with The Scene of My Rumspringa, it goes for an extra forbidden relationship: love between men among the Amish. Theodore, AKA “Theo,” is a handsome young Amishman who’s finally begun his Rumspringa some …Read more »
Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection offers up nine macabre tales from one of Japan’s most successful horror manga authors. Similar to Ito’s other work, the stories often involve nightmarish scenarios coming out of real-world situations. The cause of the nightmares may never get fully explained, …Read more »
The Parallel World Pharmacy manga is an adaptation of an original light novel series. The story starts out with Kanji Yakutani, a revered medical researcher who keeps himself insanely busy with work, and who is haunted that nothing could be done to save his younger …Read more »
Loving Yamada at Lv999!, which has a brand-new anime adaptation titled My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999, opens with Akane being dumped by her boyfriend. She’s spent a ton of time gaming lately because he’s a gamer, only to find that couldn’t cement her …Read more »
Plus-sized Misadventures in Love! is a charming, original manga that rises above the usual formulas, and not just because the heroine looks different. At the beginning, the main character, Yumeko, is miserable. But after a serious bump to her head, everything changes. In real life, …Read more »
Kitaro mixes horror, weirdness and humor in a unique formula. The main character, Kitaro, is a strange little boy whose father lives in his eye socket . . . in fact, his father is an eye with a tiny body, arms and legs underneath. And …Read more »
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku is a manga series about otaku having relationships, but it’s also just a love letter to geekdom. The main character, Narumi, has lost each of her relationships after her boyfriends find out she’s an otaku. More specifically, she’s a …Read more »
Sweat and Soap started out as a digital-only one-shot and became so popular it’s now a print series — with a live-action adaptation in Japan. It starts with an unusual premise: Asako is a very timid, 26-year-old virgin who is mortified by how much she …Read more »
The Invisible Man and His Soon-To-Be-Wife is an unusual office romance story. Tounome is the head of a detective agency. He also happens to be invisible. You can see his suit and clothes, and if he gets cut he’ll drip blood, but you’ll never see …Read more »
The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices is an isekai manga about a young Japanese woman who dies and is reincarnated into her favorite BL light novel series. The series in question takes place in a European-style realm, and the main character has been reborn as …Read more »
Barbarities is a boys’ love manga taking place in a Renaissance-esque world. Joel Montague, the very serious nephew of an important lord, gets stuck being around Adam Canning, the blond-haired playboy who’s now working as a guard for Joel’s uncle. Adam is aptly described as …Read more »
Gap Papa: Daddy at Work and at Home is a sweet-natured, idealistic, slice-of-life manga about a father, mother and young daughter. Their names aren’t given. The father goes into work each day where he is serious—so serious, in fact, that the people there think he …Read more »
Honey Lemon Soda is an all-out shojo manga. The main character, a shy girl named Uka Ishimori, is new to high school and wants to make her dreams come true. She has no friends, and is painfully awkward around others. Her parents are helicopter parents …Read more »
The manga series Captain Corinth: The Galactic Navy Officer Becomes an Adventurer is based on web novels. This science fiction story takes place many years in the future, and the main character, Alan Corinth, is in deep space. When something goes awry, he ends up …Read more »
Danica Davidson
