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 »
After being assaulted by a fan, idol singer Nina Kamiyama decides to abandon not only show business but femininity. Once the most popular member of the idol group Pure Club, she returns to high school and assumes an entirely different, more “masculine” identity. But ordinary …Read more »
The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud is a collection of short manga stories written during the 1960s to 80s by Kuniko Tsurita, the only female mangaka to habitually contribute to Garo magazine during its early days. Garo, like Tezuka’s COM, was a magazine …Read more »
Editor’s Note: This review was written prior to the arrest of Act-Age writer Tatsuya Matsuki and the cancellation of the series in Jump. It’s sometimes hard to remember, but several of the titles in Viz’s online Shonen Jump magazine have nothing to do with people beating one another up. …Read more »
When Viz Media first began, one of the staff’s dream projects was to release Rumiko Takahashi’s rom-com magnum opus Maison Ikkoku. That dream has since been realized several times over, and the series is now back in print in a prestige Viz Signature edition. After …Read more »
Nanoka is a precocious fourth grade girl who loves to read and who wants to understand what happiness means. She tries to get out of things at school that make her uncomfortable, but her teacher patiently explains, “It’s not always a good thing to try …Read more »
Nagabe, the mangaka behind The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún and The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms, is back with the stirring short story anthology Love on the Other Side. There’s an element of fairy tales to these stories, and …Read more »
In Kaori Tsurutani‘s BL Metamorphosis manga, 75-year-old widow Ichinoi muses about how fast time slips by. When a café she’s been visiting for years is abruptly shut down, she finds herself wandering into a bookstore. The cookbook section she goes to is now the manga …Read more »
In After-School Bitchcraft, Ririka Kirise looks like a typical trendy kogal and hangs out with a gang of fellow gals at school. She harbors a secret ambition her party pals would never understand: to become a veterinarian. Too bad Ririka isn’t the brightest crayon in …Read more »
A Flirty Fireman Ravishes Me with His Smoldering Gaze This setup will feel familiar to fans of romance novels, and Fire in His Fingertips is very much a manga answer to American-style romance fiction and women’s erotica. Ryo, a career woman with a vaguely defined …Read more »
In a grim fantasy world where it always seems to be night and/or raining, Iris Redhood and Finé Hera are ruthless warriors and dysfunctional girlfriends. As an early flashback in Scarlet explains, Iris is a werewolf (how could a Red Riding Hood-themed character be anything …Read more »
If you’re a big fan of the Platelets from Cells at Work! and can’t wait to see their escapades in the upcoming Cells at Work! film, then this manga spinoff might just be what you need to get you through. Like the other spinoffs Cells …Read more »
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