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 »
Hiraeth: The End of the Journey is an emotional and numinous manga. Teenager Mika runs in front of a truck, and a man knocks her to safety before she dies. But she doesn’t want to thank him, because she was trying to kill herself. Mika …Read more »
Ima Koi is an endearing high school romance. Satomi is in her first year of high school, and when she was in middle school, she was too shy to reveal her feelings to the boy she liked. One day while riding the train to school, …Read more »
Orochi, originally published in Japan in 1969-1970, is finally going to be fully released in America. The creator, Kazuo Umezz (sometimes written as Kazuo Umezu) is Japan’s premiere horror mangaka, but only some of his work has been licensed here. The first volume of Orochi, …Read more »
In her previous life, the main character of Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie was Hiyono, a Japanese girl who loved reverse harem dating sims like Holy Maiden of Vleugel Academy 3. After she died at a young age, she reincarnated — but not as a person …Read more »
New York, New York is grittier and more tragic than BL manga tend to be. Sometimes BL manga will get in plenty of angst, but plenty of others are just about fantasy. What also stands out is that the angst in New York, New York …Read more »
Manly Appetites is an endearing BL series that runs for three volumes. In it, the characters Minegishi and Otsu start out working in the same office, but gradually their relationship grows. Minegishi looks like a pretty typical bishonen lead in BL — tall, trim, and …Read more »
Manga has its fair share of horror titles, and there’s a niche within that of horror stories that take place in nineteenth century England. Think of Black Butler and titles by Kaori Yuki. Mosae Nohara’s From the Red Fog is in this vein, giving us …Read more »
Came the Mirror & Other Tales is a short story collection by Rumiko Takahashi that mostly offers up supernatural stories, but also includes some autobiographical work. In the first and titular story, “Came the Mirror,” characters get strange mirrors on their hands that can suck …Read more »
Yurika Mito’s childhood friend Souta Shishihara isn’t just cute. He’s ridiculously cute. He likes to sew, bake cookies, and cook, and his hair always looks nice. His ears are studded with earrings, and he has a soft, sweet face. He is the essence of a …Read more »
Kaiju No. 8 takes a popular form of Japanese entertainment — the kaiju, a type of giant monster — and instead of recycling the same type of story, gives it an entertaining, refreshing twist. Yes, the manga opens with a typical kaiju scene as a …Read more »
In Ghost Story Loop, Azusa has creepy nightmares when she sleeps, and it’s no wonder. During the day, the seventeen-year-old takes photographs of supposedly haunted locations. That’s because her brother is obsessed with ghosts and runs his own ghost site, where people can report strange …Read more »
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Danica Davidson
