I’m thinking Ouran High School Host Club needs no introduction for this audience. I’d say most of you have either watched at least some of the anime, or read at least some of the manga, or both. I’d say a good number of you have …Read more »
At this point in Shuzo Oshimi's The Flowers of Evil , our hopeless lead Takao Kasuga is officially under the spell of Sawa Nakamura. It's up to the reader to decide just how deep her strings plunge, but the wicked activities and plotting between the …Read more »
As our review of Limit vol. 2 winded down, I started wondering whether or not the narrative was getting a bit comfortable and easing up on the tension that's been there since the beginning. Appropriately, vol. 3 answers that question by turning the tables and …Read more »
Due to the fate of some of Weekly Shonen Jump 's more recent additions, I'm going to remain cautious when it comes to their latest, World Trigger . I enjoyed the brief run of Barrage for what it was, but I was seriously bummed when …Read more »
Eikichi Onizuka's return to his old stomping grounds of Shonan has been a long and hard road thus far, but he's met every obstacle with his typically boisterous and reckless manner of response. Volume 7 of GTO: 14 Days in Shonan sees Onizuka exacting revenge …Read more »
Raku, a high school student, is still pining away for a girl he met in his childhood. When they parted, he kept a pendant with a lock and she kept the key so that when they found each other again, they would know it’s the …Read more »
Tsutomu Nihei is a wild man of an artist and writer, probably best known for series like Blame! and Biomega . His visions of the future are dark and vividly illustrated; even if some of his stories aren't exactly known for their coherency, they're a …Read more »
Quite a bit went down in the lives of our central characters over the course of the first three volumes of Shuzo Oshimi's The Flowers of Evil , and when it all wrapped up it kind of felt like we might be right back where …Read more »
After I read Kaoru Mori’s Emma , I knew I’d read anything by her. And, well, Yen Press released a collection that’s both anything and something , and I’ll take it. Kaoru Mori: Anything and Something starts off as a collection of vignettes with different …Read more »
Yuki is trying to live her life, but she’s unsettled by a young man on the train who seems to be filming her. Things get even worse when a creep uses an umbrella handle to push up her skirt. While many manga and anime will …Read more »
In our review of the first volume of Limit —an unconventional shoujo manga by Keiko Suenobu—we decided to kick it off by keeping the cat in the bag as much as possible. Well, if you're still reading then hopefully you're well aware of Limit 's …Read more »
Fans of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind take heed: a new and beautiful deluxe box set of the manga has been released. The seven-volume manga has been put into two large hardcover books that fit together in a brightly colored slipcase. Both volumes …Read more »
Joey Jones is a good kid. He goes to school, holds a job, and is a loyal friend. That doesn't change the fact that he still feels powerless. He wants to be a hero—he wants to help people where he can—but he lacks the power. …Read more »
Digital Manga Publishing stepped out of the mainstream by licensing Barbara (and funding it on Kickstarter), because while it’s from Osamu Tezuka, it’s a strange, unconventional title. But readers ought to be very grateful, since Barbara is a fascinating, thought-provoking read, and has never been …Read more »
Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan ( Shingeki no Kyojin ) is a curious beast, and not just because it's a manga series populated with curious beasts. It originally started serialization in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009, and it's a series that truly leans on …Read more »
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