Sean Michael Wilson is a Scottish writer who specializes in collaborations with Japanese manga artists. I’ve enjoyed many of his books, going back to The Japanese Drawing Room, an adaptation of a Victorian travel journal. But his latest work, Breaking the 10, with art by …Read more »
Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter does a good job of making its story accessible to readers with no background in the Monster Hunter video game franchise. Understanding the story doesn’t require any prior knowledge of the series and the jargon is kept to a minimum. As …Read more »
On a dark and stormy night, eight students and a teacher sit in an empty classroom at Kisaragi High School, telling ghost stories. Their tales soon turn to Kisaragi itself, built on the site of another school, Tenjin Elementary, that was supposedly the scene of …Read more »
Mikami Shigeru not only plays video games to win, he’s also a designer. He’s programmed and sold a number of casual games, but he’s looking for the ultimate game experience, and he hopes someday to create that ultimate experience himself. That is until he finds …Read more »
In Japan, they don’t have the “man on the moon”—in its place is the “moon rabbit” or tsuki no usagi, best known by anime fans for inspiring the punny name of Usagi Tsukino in Sailor Moon . In Battle Rabbits , a manga by story/artist duo …Read more »
“Be ready to work yourselves to the bone as the public’s dogs!!” That’s how new employees are greeted at the Health & Welfare Department, where patient bureaucrats sit behind windows answering the public’s questions and telling people how to fill out forms. Into this public …Read more »
Everyone has some kind of youthful awkwardness plodding behind them like a fading shadow. Punpun Punyama is practically the physical embodiment of this in Inio Asano’s Goodnight Punpun . He has to deal with his parents’ rocky, abusive relationship on top of all the woes …Read more »
It’s not unusual to see shrine maidens in manga, but Kuma Miko has a special kind of shrine maiden: one who hangs out with a talking bear. In fact, all the bears in 14-year-old Machi’s rural village are able to talk. They trace this back …Read more »
© 2016 Shin Takahashi and TREND-PRO Co, Ltd. The Manga Guide to Regression Analytics is exactly what the title says: it’s a textbook on mathematics that teaches the reader through manga. As much as that sounds like a joke, it actually is successful at its …Read more »
In the year 2095, magic is just like science. “Magic technicians” are a highly valued national resource of Japan, trained at one of nine accredited magic schools, like the Tokyo high school attended by Miyuki and her brother Tatsuya. (Of course, though it’s the year …Read more »
The first series by manga superteam CLAMP, RG Veda is a sumptuous fantasy loosely based on Vedic (Hindu) mythology. In the first few pages Taishakuten, the thunder god, rebels and deposes the king of the gods. A prophecy tells that a child will be born …Read more »
Ever since his father died, 11-year-old Natsuru lives with his mom, an author. He’s at the age where he loves soccer and doesn’t care about girls, but that’s before he meets Suzumura, tall and boyish and quiet, a girl whose eyes seem to look on …Read more »
© Kenji Tsuruta 2011 / Kodansha Ltd. On one of the countless tiny islands on the edges of Japan, ocean-loving Mikura runs a seaplane freight service with her tough old salt of a grandfather. Then her grandfather dies, leaving her to carry on alone. In …Read more »
A lot of people know what it’s like to feel invisible, and they usually don’t like it. Tetsuya Kuroko feels invisible all the time and he’s fine with it—it helps him play a mean game of basketball. The new high school students are signing up …Read more »
The Bravely Default series to date has suffered from several issues over its shelf life, many of which harken back to a frustrating second half of the game. While the inventive job system is engaging and open even to new players, the second half is …Read more »
![[Review] Breaking the 10](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/breaking10-3-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] Breaking the 10](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/breaking10-3.jpg)
Shaenon K. Garrity![[Review] Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-flashhunter3-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-flashhunter3.jpg)
Norbert Daniels Jr.![[Review] Corpse Party: Blood Covered](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-corpsepartybc-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] Corpse Party: Blood Covered](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-corpsepartybc.jpg)
Jason Bradley Thompson![[Review] Not Lives](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-notlives-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] Not Lives](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-notlives.jpg)
Che Gilson![[Review] Battle Rabbits](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-nimg003-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] Battle Rabbits](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-nimg003.jpg)
Evan Minto![[Review] Servant x Service](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-servantxservice-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] Servant x Service](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-servantxservice.jpg)
![[Review] Goodnight Punpun](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-punpun-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] Goodnight Punpun](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-punpun.jpg)
Joseph Luster
Danica Davidson
![[Review] The Honor Student at Magic High School](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-magichigh1-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] The Honor Student at Magic High School](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-magichigh1.jpg)
![[Review] RG Veda](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-rgveda1-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] RG Veda](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/w-rgveda1.jpg)
![[Review] The Gods Lie](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ww-the-gods-lie-header-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] The Gods Lie](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ww-the-gods-lie-header.jpg)
![[Review] Wandering Island](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ww1-wanderingisland-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] Wandering Island](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ww1-wanderingisland.jpg)
![[Review] Bravely Second: End Layer](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ww-bravelysecond-202x202.jpg)
![[Review] Bravely Second: End Layer](https://otakuusamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ww-bravelysecond.jpg)
Brittany Vincent