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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 »
Ancient Roman architect Lucius has a secret. He’s able to time travel between Hadrian’s Rome and modern Japan. The first book in the series established a pattern where Lucius has some sort of dilemma, manages to get to modern Japan, finds a solution there, and …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 »
Fullmetal Alchemist mangaka Hiromu Arakawa has another new work in the chamber, and this time it's an adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka's epic fantasy novel series The Heroic Legend of Arslan . Arakawa's take on the material is scheduled to kick off in Shonen Magazine 's …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 »
Hirohiko Araki—that magical, spritely, ageless mangaka—has been plugging away at JoJo's Bizarre Adventure since 1987. At this point it's one of the longest-running manga series of all time, so it's kind of amazing that we're just now getting a television anime based on its generations-spanning …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 »
Quite a few announcements went down during this past weekend's Otakon convention in Baltimore, with companies revealing new licenses and additional rights to existing series. FUNimation had the largest stable, with the addition of One Piece Film: Strong World and much more. One Piece Film: …Read more »
We've been seeing a lot more of Great Teacher Onizuka creator Tohru Fujisawa lately, what with Vertical Inc.'s releases of the GTO sequel, 14 Days in Shonan , and the prequel, Shonan Junai-gumi . Now the mangaka has announced his next project, a food-based manga …Read more »
It's a sign of good storytelling when even the most solemn of reflective moments resonates with the reader in some way, and that's a skill that mangaka Kou Yaginuma has been honing throughout the run of Twin Spica . If you've been following the series …Read more »
Are you familiar with Space Battleship Yamato ? Well producer Leiji Matsumoto has a surprise for many of his fans! After 30 years of silence, the story entitled Ozuma produced by famous mangaka Leiji Matsumoto will finally be released on TV in Japan. Mr. Matsumoto …Read more »
The first volume of Usamaru Furuya's No Longer Human , based on the novel Ningen Shikkaku by Osamu Dazai, plunged us deep into the life of Yozo Oba. Oba isn't like your average student; sure, he gets along with his classmates, but it's all a …Read more »
Word of an animated take on mangaka Yasunobu Yamauchi's Daily Lives of High School Boys ( Danshi Koukousei no Nichijyou ) comes via the official website for Square Enix's Gangan Online . The gag manga will be adapted into an anime—animated by Sunrise and directed …Read more »
A limited edition version of Princess Resurrection 's 16th volume—by mangaka Yasunori Mitsunaga—comes packaged with a "Princess Solitary Island" OAD (original anime DVD). To promote this LE treat, Kodansha has posted a trailer for the anime, directed by Keiichiro Kawaguchi, who handled a previous Princess …Read more »
In the city of New Babylon, only ninety percent of the population consists of humans. The other ten percent is, by the book’s own definition, “officially God-only-knows.” Actually, they’re vampires, werewolves and ghouls—but mostly vampires. Isaac juggles being a college student and a vampire hunter, …Read more »
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