The Town of Pigs is the first manga title of horror icon Hideshi Hino’s work to be published in English in more than ten years. Hino is a top horror mangaka in Japan, and it’s easy to see why: his work is unsettling, moody, and …Read more »
Vampeerz starts with something very serious: a 14-year-old girl named Ichika mourning the loss of her beloved grandmother. But the manga soon turns more lighthearted and slightly suggestive. Family members bug Ichika about getting a boyfriend, and she insists she’ll follow her grandmother’s advice, who …Read more »
The Liminal Zone is a collection of stories from horror master Junji Ito that he created during the early days of COVID and had serialized on the LINE manga app. In the first story, “The Weeping Woman,” a woman and her significant other see a …Read more »
Square Enix’s RPG SINoALICE has received a manga adaptation, published by Square Enix Manga & Books. The book opens with Alice having a dream . . . or perhaps it would be better to call it a nightmare. Two strange, talking puppets appear, speaking to …Read more »
Shuzo Oshimi is a skilled mangaka at building mood, taking on controversial subjects, and sometimes saying a lot through his art while saying very little through word bubbles. With Welcome Back, Alice, he deals with friendship and adolescent sexuality. The manga opens with Yohei, who …Read more »
Until I Meet My Husband is illustrated by BL mangaka Yoshi Tsukizuki and is about a man in relationships with other men. But it’s not your typical BL. It’s a true story—a manga adaptation of Japanese gay activist Ryousuke Nansaki’s prose book of collected essays. …Read more »
The Crater is an anthology of short stories written by Osamu Tezuka in the 60s and 70s. They explore themes of war, death, racism, love, science and the supernatural. A few times Tezuka himself even becomes a character in the stories. These tales show the …Read more »
In High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku, 15-year-old Kotaro is excited about his first day of high school. His friends from middle school aren’t going to his high school, but he still feels confident and like it’s going to be some great years. Then Kotaro’s father …Read more »
Lost Lad London is a slow cooker mystery with twists and turns. The main characters are Al, a young man who cares about his education, and a police officer named Ellis. They both live in London, and they meet after the mayor is murdered. Someone …Read more »
In Let’s Go Karaoke, Satomi is the head of his middle school choir, and he’s going to be helping a yakuza. Satomi gets nervous easily, but after his school gives a good performance, a member of the Japanese mafia named Kyouji wants Satomi to teach …Read more »
All the gods of the world attend the Council of Valhalla every thousand years. They’re deciding whether or not to let humans live another millennium, and this time the gods decide enough is enough. They’re going to declare the apocalypse, but a Valkyrie named Brunhilde …Read more »
It’s been around 16 years since the main Death Note manga ended, but it doesn’t exactly seem like it. Maybe that’s because of the indelible mark it left behind. Love it or hate it, Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba’s series remains popular, thanks in no …Read more »
I Want to Be a Wall opens with a very unusual marriage. The bride, Yuriko, is asexual and only interested in relationships if she reads about them in fictional BL stories. The groom, Gakurouta, is gay and is in love with his heterosexual childhood friend. …Read more »
My Brain Is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders is a nonfiction manga that follows the lives of nine different people with various developmental disorders. The mangaka, Monzusu, was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and her son was also diagnosed with a …Read more »
Yoshiko is not having her life go the way she wanted. She’s about to turn 29, and she figured by now she’d be married with her second kid on the way. She’s unmarried and has zero kids. Yoshiko is envious when her female friends get …Read more »
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