At Cherryton Academy, the students are anthropomorphic animals and the school is divided into carnivores and herbivores, predators and prey. An uneasy goodwill is maintained until an alpaca student is found dead in the herbivore dorms and police suspect a carnivore of the murder. Soon …Read more »
There was once an infamous member of the yakuza (the Japanese mafia) who took down ten rival gangs during one night, and all without using a weapon. This got him the nickname “The Immortal Dragon.” But all that’s behind him. He’s left the yakuza to …Read more »
Smart, dedicated, secretly ruthless poor girl Mary Saotome has earned a scholarship to Hyakkaou Academy, a high school for the ultra-wealthy. Only after enrolling does she discover that Hyakkaou allows gambling and the school culture is based on betting enormous amounts of money and turning …Read more »
This yuri retelling of Beauty and the Beast is a charming concept poorly executed. A nameless monster lives in the woods. Feared and hated by humanity, the monster girl thinks she’ll be alone forever, until one day a blind girl named Lily meets her. Lily gives the …Read more »
Levius is a young man who’s been through some pretty hard things. His world is full of war, his father was killed, and his mother went into a coma trying to rescue him. Thanks to his mother he survived, but his one human arm was …Read more »
The all-girl Literature Club at Kazusa Onodera’s high school is supposed to devote itself to high-minded literary discussion. But lately every adult scene in a novel gets the members embarrassed, distracted, and ultimately hot and bothered. When their latest reading assignment gets them talking about …Read more »
Teenage Shuichi has a strange curse. He’s like a werewolf, except that instead of turning into a wolf, he turns into a creepy big-headed amusement park mascot. His mascot form is powerful and deadly; it even comes with a loaded gun. One night, while wandering …Read more »
In a quiet, rustic kingdom where magic is accepted as a fact of life, Coco longs to become a witch, but everyone knows that only people born with special talent can wield magic. So she works at her mother’s out of the way tailor shop …Read more »
A bunch of Shonen Jump authors are getting in on the Marvel Cinematic Universe fun thanks to a new project full of short manga. The shorts are scheduled to kick off this month in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ app, starting with Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi’s manga about Iron Man and Spider-Man heading …Read more »
© Gou Tanabe 2016-2017 However you feel about horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and his highly xenophobic and racist views, the influence of his work is hard to escape. From traditional pen-and-paper RPGs to harem anime, Lovecraft’s atmospheric settings and cosmic creatures have seeped into every …Read more »
© SHINJI KAJIO / KENJI TSURUTA 2008 Japan, 1967. Heading home from school, a lonely college student takes a 17-hour ferry ride to Kyushu, reading a science fiction paperback along the way. On the crowded ferryboat, he ends up seated next to “this hippie chick,” …Read more »
World’s End and Apricot Jam: © Rila Kirishima / Kodansha Ltd. Teenage Hina, whose family manages an apartment building, is fed up with the noisy, unseen occupant of apartment 304. Breaking in to investigate, she smashes the keyboard of an adorkable guy named Anzu and …Read more »
Kino’s Journey: © Iruka Shiomiya / Keiichi Sigsawa In a quiet, low-key future, wandering adventurer Kino and her “motorrad” Hermes, a talking motorbike, travel the overgrown landscape and mostly deserted roads, occasionally running into people with whom to connect and philosophize. Their world is lightly …Read more »
The Tale of Genji: © Waki Yamato / Kodansha Ltd. Often called the world’s first novel, the 11th-century romance The Tale of Genji is one of the founding works of Japanese literature. It’s been adapted to manga many times, but The Tale of Genji: Dreams at Dawn, first …Read more »
Peach Girl NEXT: © Miwa Ueda / Kodansha Ltd. Miwa Ueda’s Peach Girl, launched in the late 90s and published in English by Tokyopop a few years later, was one of the early shojo manga available in the US about ordinary, nonmagical teenagers and high school …Read more »
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