Now 42-years-old, Shizuo has quit his regular job, taken up a gig at a burger place where his boss is 25, and is trying desperately to become a professional mangaka. Time and again he bemoans how many years he’s let slip by, and how hard …Read more »
Kotoko and Naoki get along a lot better on the cover than they do inside the manga. The cover gives you the idea they’re a loving couple. Ha! On the first page, Kotoko tries to give Naoki a love letter so he’ll know she’s had …Read more »
Poor Nanako. She failed her college entrance exam, and now she’s a prep school student trying to get her life on the right track. And she dresses up as a fake maid for a maid café to pay for her school expenses. The usual stuff. …Read more »
The gourmet-hunting adventure of Toriko and his ever-endangered companion Komatsu mines deeper into madness in volume two, and the stakes continue to be raised in true shonen fashion. In fact, this volume is loaded with just enough strongman antics and beasts bursting to the brim …Read more »
With all the devastatingly masculine media I tend to personally cover around here, one would almost think I have no room in my heart for softer fare. Far from it, I just don't have time to dig through anything that ranges from mediocre to outright …Read more »
Without any background on its creator, Felipe Smith, being a tad confused by what exactly Peepo Choo is would be understandable. You see, Felipe had the proper mixture of fortune, hard work and guts to be able to produce manga in Japan, where it's considered, …Read more »
© Shoko Iwami 2018, Rifujin na Magonote 2018 Young Roxy lives in the isolated desert village of Migurd. Her tribe communicates by telepathy, but Roxy was born without telepathic powers. Cut off from her people, Roxy’s lonely existence is shaken when a travelling magician named …Read more »
Writer and artist duo Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata have an especially tough act to follow, a trap set by their past selves to cast a shadow on all subsequent endeavors. Death Note 's presence still looms menacingly, but their latest series, Bakuman , takes …Read more »
At this point we've had fairly ample room to explore some of the principle work from prolific mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi. His books published by Drawn & Quarterly manage to paint experienced visions through a lens that can be simultaneously distorted with hope and despair. We've …Read more »
When we last left Asumi Kamogawa, she was in the early stages of admittance to the Tokyo Space School, gradually becoming accustomed to both the rigorous program and the mix of classmates with which she'll have to learn to get along. With someone like Kei, …Read more »
The mystery-thriller Monster, based on Naoki Urasawa’s impressive manga series, reminds me why I jumped headfirst into the anime hobby: for the chance to experience excellent storytelling. Taking place in Germany, we are introduced to Dr. Kenzo Tenma, a young Japanese physician who has great …Read more »
Housuke Nojiri’s novel Usurper of the Sun is a novel of first contact, of enigmatic artifacts and ineffable extraterrestrials, of cognitive science and astroengineering. When high school astronomer Aki Shiraishi notices a tower on Mercury during its transit of the Sun, she immediately finds herself …Read more »
Toriko is my kinda dude. Like the TV dinners of the same name, he is most definitely a Hungry Man™. He makes his living as a "Gourmet Hunter," but don't let that create images of prancing deer and other such relatively harmless game in your …Read more »
Immediately after finishing Top Shelf's upcoming AX manga anthology, I started to wonder if the sense of discovery that's applicable here is alive and well in the general manga community today. It may be a little short-sighted to assume off the bat that it's not, …Read more »
The setting of Dorohedoro is every bit as decrepit as the moniker of "The Hole" would lead one to believe. Picture slums that stretch as far as the eye can see and you've got a pretty good idea of the kind of picture mangaka Q …Read more »
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