If you’re a big fan of the Platelets from Cells at Work! and can’t wait to see their escapades in the upcoming Cells at Work! film, then this manga spinoff might just be what you need to get you through. Like the other spinoffs Cells …Read more »
Little Miss P, a manga series originally published as a webcomic, talks about the subject of menstruation loudly and humorously by creating an anthropomorphized period called (what else?) Little Miss P. Each chapter introduces us to a different set of characters, but menstruation is always …Read more »
Red Blood Cell and White Blood Cell are back in the manga spinoff Cells at Work! Baby.It gets this title not only because the main characters are re-envisioned as younger, chibi little toddlers, but because the story itself revolves around childbirth and infancy. We start …Read more »
Rent-a-Girlfriend is a comedy shonen manga based on a real Japanese premise, where girlfriends or even other family members can be “rented.” This is a type of business recently growing in Japan, as a note at the beginning of the book explains. The note also …Read more »
It’s been 20 years since CLAMP’s successful manga Chobits was first published. Previously the series was published in America by TOKYOPOP and Dark Horse, and now Kodansha USA is re-releasing the series in omnibus 20th Anniversary Editions. 19-year-old Hideki would love to get a robot …Read more »
Asuka Tsukasa is scared of animals, particularly dogs. He’s even scared of the little cute breeds that couldn’t hurt him if they tried. Boy, is his life about to take a messy turn in the first volume of Bestia. Asuka is 1/8 British, and he’s moved …Read more »
Revivals of 1980s pop culture are all the rage now, which suits me just fine. Though rooted in that era, the venerable Dirty Pair franchise continually overhauls its visual aesthetic to follow current trends. This omnibus is no exception, looking sharply distinct from the original …Read more »
Kei Yonagi is only 16, but she has to take care of her younger siblings since her mother died and her father is MIA. She’s also trying to become a professional actress. She goes to an annual new-talent audition held by a large talent agency, …Read more »
Back when Miwa was in high school, she had a huge crush on an older girl, but she was too scared to say anything. Now she’s in college and her first friend is a girl named Saeko. The two young women hang out more and …Read more »
Disappointed by his failure to connect with students, young home ec teacher Shinji Yabe starts a cooking club. But the only student to show up is Miku Okazaki, “the school’s number one gal,” who has huge boobs, masses of bleached blonde hair, and no domestic …Read more »
If you’ve ever experienced rain and thought, “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day,” then you’ll understand what makes 18-year-old Hina so special. She can pray to the sky and make the rain stop. She’s called The Sunshine Girl. There’s been a ton of …Read more »
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 »
Danica Davidson
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Shaenon K. Garrity
