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Seven Seas Launches Adult Manga Imprint With New Licenses

North American manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment announced the launch of an all-new adult imprint called Ghost Ship. The imprint will feature a line of specialty titles for adult fans, including previously announced series and two new print and digital manga acquisitions, Tadahiro Miura’s Yuuna …Read more »

[Manga Review] H.P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories

October 11, 2017

Jason Bradley Thompson

The work of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the creator of octopus-headed Cthulhu and other horror icons, has inspired manga artists and authors ranging from the serious (Junji Ito’s slimy Uzumaki, Hideyuki Kikuchi’s pulp novels of demons and alien gods) to the not-so-serious (Toshio Maeda’s X-rated Urotsukidoji, …Read more »

Sekirei [Manga Review]

October 9, 2017

Shaenon K. Garrity

“Minato Sahashi is a loser,” begins the back cover text of Sekirei, thus ensuring, according to the ancient laws of manga, that within the first 10 pages a hot, devoted girlfriend with supernatural powers will fall into his lap. In this case it happens literally, …Read more »

Dissolving Classroom [Manga Review]

October 6, 2017

Jason Bradley Thompson

The horror manga of Junji Ito (Uzumaki) often walk the line between the scary and the ridiculous, never more so than here. Arisu immediately realizes something’s strange about transfer student Yuuma Azawa: he’s handsome but addicted to apologizing, constantly dropping to his knees and saying …Read more »

Manga Review: Descending Stories Vol. 3 – “Act Like You Mean It”

October 5, 2017

Austin Price

The tragic trajectory of Yakumo’s flashback follow its natural arc in the third volume of Descending Stories as he and adopted brother Sukeroku move beyond their long apprenticeship to define themselves not just as shin’uchi – rakugo performers in their own rights – but as …Read more »

Venice [Manga Review]

October 5, 2017

Jason Bradley Thompson

After his mother’s death, a middle-aged man finds some old photos of Venice among her belongings. Curious about her past, he travels to Venice where he strolls the plazas and lagoons, looking for traces of the time when his mother was young and his grandfather, …Read more »

Frau Faust [Manga Review]

October 5, 2017

Che Gilson

The hero of Frau Faust is Johanna Faust, the legendary sorceress who sold her soul to the devil. After 100 years her story became a fairy tale, and—through repeated retellings—she became a he. When a boy named Marion crosses paths with Johanna, she agrees to …Read more »

Kigurumi Guardians [Manga Review]

October 4, 2017

Che Gilson

Hakka Sasakura is a typical high school girl living the typical high school life until she comes home from school one day to discover a giant adorable mascot named Ginger in her living room. Ginger looks like a cross between a penguin and a bull …Read more »

Erased [Manga Review]

October 3, 2017

Jason Bradley Thompson

At 29, Fujinuma hardly feels like an adult: he still struggles to find work as a manga artist while making a living as a pizza delivery boy. Afraid that he’ll never be a success, he gets some support and happiness from the women in his …Read more »

Tokyo Ghoul Has Big Announcement Planned

October 2, 2017

Joseph Luster

What’s going on with Tokyo Ghoul? While we wait for this month’s English release of the live-action movie and the October 17 North American launch of the Tokyo Ghoul:re manga, there’s even more to keep an eye out for in the pages of Young Jump. …Read more »

New York Comic Con to Honor Fairy Tail Creator Hiro Mashima

October 2, 2017

Matt Schley

Hiro Mashima, he of the recently wrapped-up Fairy Tail, has got some time on his hands, and while we’re sure he’s enjoying some Final Fantasy XV DLC, he’s also made time to visit New York. Mashima will be at New York Comic Con, which runs …Read more »

Species Domain [Manga Review]

October 1, 2017

Amelia Cook

In a world where elves, dwarves, trolls, and winged people co-exist with humans, Itoko Kazamori is a relatively rare changeling: an elf who was born in “the other realm” and swapped with a human baby at birth. Now at high school, she has deliberately cultivated …Read more »

Ghost Diary [Manga Review]

September 30, 2017

Che Gilson

Sakumi Kyouichi comes from a long line of exorcists and dreams of helping his beloved older sister Hanaichi fight ghosts, demons, and gods. Unfortunately, Sakumi angers a local god and his sister sacrifices herself to save her brother’s life. Skip ahead six years and Sakumi …Read more »

Museum [Manga Review]

September 29, 2017

Jason Bradley Thompson

Hisashi Sawamura, a 32-year-old police sergeant whose wife and son left him because he was such a workaholic, is called in to investigate a series of gruesome, elaborate murders: victims slowly cut to pieces, frozen in ice, eaten alive by dogs. Long before Sawamura finds …Read more »

Tokyo Tarareba Girls [Manga Review]

September 27, 2017

Amelia Cook

“I spent all my time wondering ‘what if,’ then one day I woke up and I was 33,” main character Rinko says on the first page of Tokyo Tarareba Girls. Rinko and her close friends Kaori and Koyuki are all 33 and single, with past …Read more »