For my money, Yusuke Murata ( Eyeshield 21 ) is one of the most exciting artists in manga. There's something truly electrifying about his work, from the way he composes his panels to his meticulously crafted angles and character poses, and his skills have been …Read more »
Ultraman is little more than a fond memory to the people of Japan in one of his latest manga adventures, which comes from Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi. The selfless heroics of the Giant of Light are documented and celebrated regularly at a memorial museum, …Read more »
Ajin: Demi-Human is one of the best manga series being released in English right now. Gamon Sakurai has taken the relatively simple story of a certain breed of people who can't be killed and turned it into a tense game of cat and mouse between …Read more »
Izuku Midoriya is kind of a wimp. He has a lot of heart and spirit, but he can turn on the waterworks at the drop of a hat, and he's a total shrimp physically. That's what makes this middle-schooler's determination to enter the prestigious U.A. …Read more »
It's been a while since we had a new work from acclaimed horror mangaka Junji Ito in English. It's been a while for Ito, too, apparently, as even he says he was shocked to learn it had been eight years since his last collection of …Read more »
In the back of Dream Fossil , Vertical's collection of Satoshi Kon's manga shorts, composer Susumu Hirasawa shares some thoughts on meeting and getting to know the late creator. While discussing his unique style—which he describes as being neither like animation nor live action–Hirasawa says, …Read more »
When I reviewed the first volume of Yusei Matsui's Assassination Classroom manga, I wasn't entirely convinced of how long it could riff on its premise. Now that we're three volumes in, I think it's clear Matsui has enough ideas to keep this going as long …Read more »
Class 3-E is special. So special, in fact, that it's completely separate from the rest of Kunugigaoka Junior High School. This isn't necessarily the good type of special, though, as the rest of the student body knows Class 3-E as the final destination of hopeless …Read more »
Rumi Yokoi and her ever-creative classmate Toshinari Seki are back in the second volume of Takuma Morishige's My Neighbor Seki ( Tonari no Seki-kun ) manga. It's more of the same goof-off hijinks this time around, proving that Morishige's key hook has plenty of life …Read more »
For those of you just now joining us… uh, what are you thinking? You've got 12 volumes of Knights of Sidonia to read, and if you start at 13 you're going to have a really tough time parsing sentences like, "Success! The Semi-Autonomous Conversion Organ …Read more »
Tsutomu Nihei's Knights of Sidonia manga has done a pretty commendable job of staying consistent throughout its run, and volume 12 does nothing to sway that. In fact, I'd say 12 was one of the most enjoyable volumes of late, mixing in a dash of …Read more »
Gamon Sakurai's impressive work on Ajin: Demi-Human keeps chugging along at a powerful pace in volume 4, which ramps up the action and the animosity between society and the immortal beings known as Demi-Humans. The calm but sinister Sato (AKA Hat) wants to turn the …Read more »
The fifth volume of Daisuke Ashihara's World Trigger manga offers a slight reprieve from the Neighbor-battling action of previous chapters. Instead the focus turns to training and tests, as four-eyed non-wonder Osamu Mikumo finds himself ranked higher than he should be, the target of much …Read more »
Wolfsmund volume five was all about the siege of the notorious, seemingly impenetrable Sankt Gotthard Pass, home to the vile bailiff Wolfram. It was pretty much non-stop action, with Walter leading the charge and helping his people evade every last attempt at keeping them out …Read more »
All good things must come to an end, and it's nice whenever the rare opportunity pops up to read a manga series that isn't more than a dozen volumes in length. Tetsuya Tsutsui's Prophecy is just three, and its final volume brings things to an …Read more »
Joseph Luster
