Sakuta Azusagawa, a high school boy with a cutting wit and no use for cell phones, is at the library one day when he notices a young woman walking around in a Playboy Bunny outfit. It’s Mai Sakurajima, the famous actress and his senpai (hence …Read more »
Confusing at first, Cosmo Familia settles into a weird groove by the end of the first volume. It begins with mystery heaped upon mystery, with so many things going on and so little context that it’s hard not to feel dislocated. The patient reader will …Read more »
A sad announcement has been made via Monthly Shonen Magazine‘s editorial department, with the news that Kimio Alive manga author Kōsei Eguchi passed away on August 19. According to the statement, Eguchi was taken to the hospital in an emergency on August 17 and passed …Read more »
Sometimes a family is a child, a mommy, and a daddy. Sometimes a family is a daddy, another daddy, and a child. Sometimes a family is a mommy, a dragon, and a smaller dragon. In the first volume of Spy x Family, a family is …Read more »
In the Victorian setting of Goodbye, My Rose Garden, a young Japanese woman named Hanako has traveled to England to pursue her dream of becoming a novelist. Her first step is to speak with the author whose work has resonated with her the most, the …Read more »
Like clockwork, it’s time for One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda to let everyone know how much time we have left in the world of the One Piece manga! This time, the author made an appearance for an interview on Japanese band Arashi’s Arashi Tsu Bo …Read more »
BURNING HELL KAMI NO KUNI © 2015 In-wan YOUN, Eun-hee KIM, Kyung-il YANG/SHOGAKUKAN American readers may not be familiar with the names on the cover of The Kingdom of the Gods, but there’s a good chance they’ve come across Kingdom while scrolling through their Netflix …Read more »
You’ve never seen a meet-cute like the one in Sweat and Soap. Count on it. This romcom manga follows a young woman’s connection to a man who becomes attracted to her because of, to put it bluntly, her smell. Asako Yaeshima is a timid office …Read more »
After being assaulted by a fan, idol singer Nina Kamiyama decides to abandon not only show business but femininity. Once the most popular member of the idol group Pure Club, she returns to high school and assumes an entirely different, more “masculine” identity. But ordinary …Read more »
The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud is a collection of short manga stories written during the 1960s to 80s by Kuniko Tsurita, the only female mangaka to habitually contribute to Garo magazine during its early days. Garo, like Tezuka’s COM, was a magazine …Read more »
Editor’s Note: This review was written prior to the arrest of Act-Age writer Tatsuya Matsuki and the cancellation of the series in Jump. It’s sometimes hard to remember, but several of the titles in Viz’s online Shonen Jump magazine have nothing to do with people beating one another up. …Read more »
When Viz Media first began, one of the staff’s dream projects was to release Rumiko Takahashi’s rom-com magnum opus Maison Ikkoku. That dream has since been realized several times over, and the series is now back in print in a prestige Viz Signature edition. After …Read more »
Tatsuya Endo’s Spy x Family manga has been a real hit on the digital Shonen Jump+ platform and in print, and it’s grown even more in recent months. Back in July, the series hit the milestone of 4 million copies in circulation, and now, just …Read more »
After Act-Age writer Tatsuya Matsuki was arrested over accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault toward junior high school girls, Shonen Jump put out an official statement that they were canceling the series. We also got a statement from fellow shonen mangaka Taishi Tsutsui of …Read more »
Earlier this month, we posted about a Comiket alternative that was coming just in time to make up for the lack of a physical doujinshi event this year. ComicVket 1 ended up being held from August 13 to 16 in a virtual reality space, and …Read more »
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