20-year-old Shin loves playing video games. The New Gate opens with him appearing as if inside the game itself, fighting a boss. The marvels of virtual reality! He defeats the boss, wins the game, and gets ready to log out with his fellow gamers. But while …Read more »
Shy 19-year-old college student Yuki is on the train when a man tries asking her for directions. Yuki wears a hearing aid and all noise sounds like white noise to her, and she gets flustered and doesn’t know what to do. A male college student …Read more »
People sometimes do outrageous things when partying. Like Kaede. She got drunk and invited a dinosaur to be her roommate. There’s no explanation of where Dino came from or how a dinosaur would still be alive, because that’s not the point of this manga. It’s …Read more »
Like many teenage girls in the world, Azusa is obsessed with a boy band. She’s given her heart to band member Chikashi Chida and has plastered her room with posters of him. But unlike many teenage girls, Azusa actually gets to body swap with her …Read more »
Beheading someone well takes a lot of skill. Gabimaru would know. He’s an assassin from a clan where all the men are supposed to be warriors. And he’s about to be beheaded himself, right on page 1 of Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku. But wouldn’t you know …Read more »
What’s Michael? is an endearing and funny manga about cats that was originally published in Japan in the 80s. Though it was previously published in America, it went out of print for years, much to the chagrin of fans. Now Dark Horse is re-releasing it …Read more »
As fun as it can be to pore over the adventures of will-they-or-won’t-they couples in the world of yuri, sometimes it gets a little ridiculous. If you’re not in the mood for silly love triangles, almost-kisses, or nonsense where two lifelong friends never work up …Read more »
Saya and Yuto were friends in middle school. Saya was relatively popular, but Yuto was a shaggy, bespectacled nerd ignored by other students. The two of them like playing video games together and he suggests they date. Why not? But when high school starts, Yuto …Read more »
Asahi is one of the dumb kids at her school. The school—and the smart students—look down on people like her. The smart kids even wear a slightly different uniform from the kids deemed dumb, so everyone can know who takes school seriously and who doesn’t. …Read more »
Nicola Traveling Around The Demons’ World is a storybook fantasy about a little girl who, for one reason or another, has been transported to a land full of monsters. Call it a fairy tale, call it an adventure, just don’t call it isekai because it’s …Read more »
In No Guns Life’s cyberpunk future—which in 2019 is best explained as “socioeconomically just like today, but there are full-body cyborgs”—controlled by the Berühren Corporation, the Extended are people who have undergone body augmentation to become living weapons. But the war in which they fought …Read more »
After she dies in a traffic accident, a teenage otaku finds herself reborn in a fantasy world as Katarina Claes, a pampered eight-year-old aristocrat. After initial confusion (she regains her memories of her past life when she hits her head), “Katarina” starts to recognize her …Read more »
© Fuyumi Soryo / Kodansha Ltd. There comes a time in every shojo and josei fan’s life when Fuyumi Soryo’s classic series Mars drifts into view. This melodramatic soap opera is a treasure that includes a little something for just about every fan, with memorable characters that …Read more »
Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger is an interesting metafictional take on traditional video-game-to-manga adaptations. While it could very easily cross over into the embarrassing world of self-insert wish fulfillment scenarios, instead it subverts expectations and turns into something much more exciting. Protagonist Shogo works at Square …Read more »
There’s a girl on the cover. She wears a sailor suit uniform with a skirt hiked almost, but not quite, high enough to flash panties. Her almost featureless face wears an expression that’s vaguely seductive but mostly blank. She cradles an elaborate weapon bigger than …Read more »
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