Hiroya Oku’s manga, including the enormously popular Gantz and the fascinatingly bizarre Inuyashiki, are page-turners that begin grounded in reality before moving into increasingly fantastical territory. Gigant is no different, but whereas those series were obsessed with violence and gore, Gigant adds sex to the …Read more »
Hyakkimaru was born with a curse, missing 48 body parts but still able to “see” and “hear.” Dororo is a young orphan who thinks he’s a great thief. These two characters make an unlikely match in Tezuka’s original Dororo and the new manga adaptation, The …Read more »
Konami Kanata showed her skill at making cat stories with her very adorable and very successful Chi’s Sweet Home. Now she’s back with Sue & Tai-chan, another feline franchise. Sue is a 17-year-old cat used to living with her master and no one else. She …Read more »
Each Cells at Work! spinoff has its own flavor while keeping the style of the original. So if Cells at Work! Baby is cute and Cells at Work! and Friends is about foibles, then Cells at Work! Bacteria is . . . well, gross. But it’s …Read more »
Junji Ito is one of Japan’s best known horror manga creators, and anyone who reads Venus in the Blind Spot can see why. This collection of short manga stories highlights his artistic and storytelling talents, showing how he can give you delicious chills and keep …Read more »
The Death of Replicist is a moody, avant garde manga from Digital Manga Publishing’s yuri imprint, LILYKA. The main character is Mori, a shinigami (usually translated to English as “god of death”) who looks like a beautiful young woman with blond hair. It’s her job …Read more »
My Broken Mariko is a heavy duty josei manga about friendship, abuse, and loss. Shiino is eating a meal at a restaurant when she hears the news that her best friend, 26-year-old Mariko, committed suicide. It’s pretty clear from the pains Mariko went to that …Read more »
For fifteen years, the Louvre has commissioned graphic novels from top cartoonists around the world. Seinen manga legend Naoki Urasawa (20th Century Boys, Pluto, Monster) joins the ranks of Louvre artists with Mujirushi, a heist thriller that combines the brainy eccentricity of a colorful French …Read more »
In Primitive Boyfriend, Mito Kamigome looks like a typical sparkly-eyed teenage manga heroine, but she comes from a farm family and comes by her beauty through hard labor and a diet of home-grown produce. Though her school is populated with stock types from a girls’ …Read more »
Sakuta Azusagawa, a high school boy with a cutting wit and no use for cell phones, is at the library one day when he notices a young woman walking around in a Playboy Bunny outfit. It’s Mai Sakurajima, the famous actress and his senpai (hence …Read more »
Confusing at first, Cosmo Familia settles into a weird groove by the end of the first volume. It begins with mystery heaped upon mystery, with so many things going on and so little context that it’s hard not to feel dislocated. The patient reader will …Read more »
Sometimes a family is a child, a mommy, and a daddy. Sometimes a family is a daddy, another daddy, and a child. Sometimes a family is a mommy, a dragon, and a smaller dragon. In the first volume of Spy x Family, a family is …Read more »
In the Victorian setting of Goodbye, My Rose Garden, a young Japanese woman named Hanako has traveled to England to pursue her dream of becoming a novelist. Her first step is to speak with the author whose work has resonated with her the most, the …Read more »
BURNING HELL KAMI NO KUNI © 2015 In-wan YOUN, Eun-hee KIM, Kyung-il YANG/SHOGAKUKAN American readers may not be familiar with the names on the cover of The Kingdom of the Gods, but there’s a good chance they’ve come across Kingdom while scrolling through their Netflix …Read more »
You’ve never seen a meet-cute like the one in Sweat and Soap. Count on it. This romcom manga follows a young woman’s connection to a man who becomes attracted to her because of, to put it bluntly, her smell. Asako Yaeshima is a timid office …Read more »
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