Look Back is a one-shot manga by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto that is quite different from his most famous title. This manga is set within the real world, and stars two girls who are artists. We meet Fujino first. She draws manga for her …Read more »
Young, Alive, in Love is a different sort of manga starring different sorts of characters with a different sort of art style. The main characters, Hayakawa Makoto and Hieda Mana, are oddballs who end up as a couple seemingly because no one else gets them, …Read more »
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is a manga based on a light novel series. It opens with high schooler Usato, who thinks his life is boring. Well, it’s about to get a lot less boring. He’s hanging out with the school’s council president …Read more »
In the first volume of The Girl on the Other Side Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition, Shiva is a little girl who is taught never to touch an Outsider, because then she will be cursed. But after this she lives with an Outsider. Her aunt …Read more »
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 »
Danica Davidson
