This may be hard to believe, but once upon a time “shojo” wasn’t automatically synonymous with “teen girl romance.” There was variety! You could have mysteries and action/adventure stories with girls as the lead characters, and—get this—some of these stories featured minimal romance, or none …Read more »
Fifteen-year-old Asta doesn’t have any luck. In a world where “magic is everything,” he wants to be the Wizard King. The problem? He doesn’t have any magical abilities. He also is in love with a woman in his village and wants to marry her. The …Read more »
Hideo Suzuki is 35 and still talks to his imaginary friend. Haunted by hallucinations, he often spends all night in his apartment waiting for the visions to end and for dawn to arrive. By day he works as an assistant to a porno mangaka, responding …Read more »
People have been telling me to watch Nichijou for years. Somehow I’ve never managed to see it, despite my friends’ insistence that the 2011 anime series is “the next Azumanga Daioh .” However, seeing as THAT show came out nearly 15 years ago, I suppose …Read more »
© 2011 Production I.G, CLAMP / Project BLOOD-C TV / MBS The 2011 Blood-C anime (which had no direct continuity relationship with Blood: The Last Vampire or Blood+ ) has gained infamy over the years, thanks in no small part to its savagely gruesome finale. …Read more »
Stories about being sucked into virtual worlds have proliferated since their inception—from the early 1980’s Guardians of the Flame novels about a D&D group transported into the game narrative, to Tron early in the history of the video game, and more recently in franchises like …Read more »
Occupying much the same place in the manga food chain as Demonizer Zilch , Taboo Tattoo also has hand-to-hand combat, occult conspiracies, and teenage dudes with massive destinies getting fawned over by superpowered girls. Seigi “Justice” Akatsuka is a boy who studies martial arts with …Read more »
It’s the Taisho Era and Sayaka and Narutaki have a forbidden relationship. She’s a nouveau riche heiress and he’s her servant—specifically her chauffeur—who’s been working for her family for years. There’s a five year age difference between them, and Sayaka’s mother died and her father …Read more »
The disconnect begins before you even crack the shrinkwrap on Demonizer Zilch: the 18+ rating and cleavage indicate a racy adult manga, but the art has the huge eyes, awful anatomy, and Amiibo-esque geometric character designs of a manga for kids. Page 1 begins with a …Read more »
Kosuke Fujishima has spent most of his career on one classic manga: Oh My Goddess! , the nearly 50-volume saga of a motorcycle-loving boy and the three Norse goddesses who share his Tokyo apartment. Oh My Goddess! started as a supernatural comedy in the mold …Read more »
Asuka can’t wait to get married. Although she’s a very successful and hard-working real estate agent, her goal in life is to be a homemaker. She wants to be the one to create a safe haven for her husband and children. Unfortunately, she can’t seem …Read more »
As they did for the previous entry in the franchise, Atlus recruited Shuji Sogabe to handle the manga adaptation of Persona 4 , the latest in the Persona RPG series. The manga is a retelling of the game’s central plot rather than a spinoff or …Read more »
Akame ga Kill!! is a well-paced, shockingly dark and violent fantasy manga, pitting a group of ruthless terrorist/assassins called Night Raid (aka our heroes) against a corrupt government that makes them look virtuous by comparison. The setup is formulaic—quirky young people with cool powers and …Read more »
©2015 Hiro Mashima/BOKU/Kodansha, Ltd. A spinoff of the popular shonen manga Fairy Tail , Fairy Girls follows a night of misadventures featuring four wizards of the Fairy Tale Guild: Lucy, Juvia, Erza, and Wendy. While out on a lark to see the sights of the …Read more »
When Earth is invaded by dragons—giant reptilian monsters—tween siblings Mitsuki and Yuu are separated and their town and family are destroyed. Three years later, Yuu has grown into a young man doing unsavory jobs to survive, when he’s summoned to appear at Midgard Academy, a …Read more »
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