Yen Press has released the omnibus manga Another just in time for Halloween, and it’s the perfect timing for a strong horror title like this. Koichi’s mother died years ago, and his father’s away with work, so the teen winds up in his mother’s village, …Read more »
Chiwa Takanashi is in an awkward situation. She’s balancing two jobs to try to pay off her father’s debts, but all her money problems can be swept away if she agrees to marry a man she just met. One of Chiwa’s jobs is at an …Read more »
If you’ve ever felt awkward at school, or tried unsuccessfully to fit in, or had “geeky” interests other people didn’t understand, or had trouble finding a boyfriend or girlfriend... you’ll want to read No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m …Read more »
After reading Uzumaki , good luck looking at spirals the same way again. Teen Kirie Goshima lives in a small town that’s… off. Her boyfriend Shuichi says he can feel it and they need to get out. Unfortunately, neither one of them heed his advice. …Read more »
Mitsuki likes to wear one glove, just like Michael Jackson, but she’s not a celebrity and she’s not trying to make any sort of fashion statement. She wears one glove for protection. When she touches people with her bare right hand, she can read their …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka's Atomcat is inspired by Astro Boy , but you don’t have to have read Astro Boy to understand what’s going on in this manga. It opens showing us the “birth” of Astro Boy—and then we realize these pages are being read by our …Read more »
Lots of people say they have the boss from hell, but for Kaya, that might literally be the case. Her boss is a vampire. Kyohei is the managing director of Tohma Corp., and he has a large turnover rate with his secretaries. His father is …Read more »
Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist serves up the first work from mangaka Asumiko Nakamura to be made available in English, and it makes for a hell of an introduction. Nakamura's tale of an author wrestling against his own snowballing plagiarism and its source—an enigmatic …Read more »
Katsura Hoshino created her own nineteenth century in D.Gray-Man , just as she created her own mythology and monsters. Allen Walker is a teenager exorcist who has to take care of the akuma. Akuma aren’t demons, per se. They’re weapons, and they come from the …Read more »
In Umineko When They Cry: Legend of the Golden Witch , a rich family squabbling over an inheritance goes to an island in the middle of nowhere. The grandfather, the patriarch of the family, likes to lock himself up in his room and study the …Read more »
I love my subscription to Viz Media's digital edition of Weekly Shonen Jump . However, I recently realized I don't particularly love reading Eiichiro Oda's One Piece on a weekly basis. Don't get me wrong, One Piece is still amazing, and I love where the …Read more »
It seems like countless ages ago that we first got wind of Last Gasp's plans to publish Suehiro Maruo's manga adaptation of Edogawa Rampo's The Strange Tale of Panorama Island . Maybe it was. It's difficult to think back that far at this point, and …Read more »
For most of Keiko Suenobu's Limit , the girls have been contending with both the elements and rifts initially caused by their various social standings back at school. Thus, despite some grey areas, the main antagonist role fell to Morishige, an outcast in school who …Read more »
Pepita is a mixture of genres and mediums: art, history, philosophy, photography. While it is written by mangaka Takehiko Inoue ( Vagabond , Slam Dunk ), it’s not a manga. Inoue expresses his thoughts and stories in many different ways in this book, but never …Read more »
Lucius is a down and out architect living in ancient Rome. His ideas on building public baths are seen as too antiquated, and this causes him to lose his job. A friend drags him to a public bath in an attempt to get Lucius to …Read more »
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