Kodansha Comics kicks off this week's new titles with a new series, Genshiken Second Season . The first volume kicks off the sequel series to Genshiken which marks a whole new school year, and that means a whole new club. Well, almost. The club's president, …Read more »
The Durarara!! manga starts out in a very scatterbrained way, jumping us around from different characters and scenes, which at first is jarring and confusing. However, by the end of the volume it’s smoothing itself out and getting more interesting, so you can see why …Read more »
Any week with a new CLAMP title is a good week by my standards, even for Gate 7 which has fallen a bit beneath my expectations. The story's kind of a mess in that it hasn’t really framed itself an actual linear plot yet, but …Read more »
The Viz Media-backed Neon Alley network is looking more and more promising, and the latest addition to its anime lineup is a real doozy. Announced via newsletter this morning, One Piece will be joining the roster of shows on the network, which is set to …Read more »
Shonen Jump Alpha , Viz Media's digital home for everyone's weekly Shonen Jump manga fix, is continuing to add incentives for new readers to hop aboard. Previously you kind of had to be knee-deep in long-running series like Naruto , One Piece , Bleach , …Read more »
Let's go ahead and get the obvious out of the way: Sakuran is a completely gorgeous manga from beginning to end. The art of Moyoco Anno— Sugar Sugar Rune , Happy Mania , wife of director Hideaki Anno ( Evangelion )—has its own flow and …Read more »
The cruelty continues in volume two of The Flowers of Evil , by Shuzo Oshimi ( Drifting Net Cafe ). Pure, unadulterated elation mixes potently with a maddening telltale heart as Kasuga embarks on a dream date with his school crush, Saeki. Despite all the …Read more »
GEN Manga has turned one year old! Robert McGuire began publishing monthly doujinshi collections last year and we spoke with him when he was just getting GEN up and running. Now that he’s reached the milestone of year two, we wanted to check back in …Read more »
Tite Kubo's Bleach is next on Viz Media's speed-up plan, as the publisher uses 2012 to catch the North American print edition up to its Japanese counterpart. Starting this month and continuing through December, Viz will be publishing two new volumes of Bleach each month. …Read more »
Oddly enough, the third volume of Toru Fujisawa's GTO: 14 Days in Shonan turned out to be a perfect Father's Day read, because it kicks off with the resolution of the storyline that finds former troublemaker Miki Katsuragi reconnecting with her dad. Everything's rosy at …Read more »
I really enjoy having a subscription to Shonen Jump Alpha , but I won't lie and say I keep it going for anything other than One Piece . Sure, I've read series like Naruto and Bleach in the past, and I plan to catch up …Read more »
It is amazing how international cosplay has become! Otaku Unite! This past weekend was JapAniManga Night in Winterthur, Switzerland, one of two anime conventions in this amazing country. Located in the Swiss and German speaking region of Switzerland, JapAniManga is a rapidly growing convention. In …Read more »
Maria Kawai, the lead character of A Devil and Her Love Song , remains an enigma for the first volume. She’s been expelled from her previous school — for beating someone up, apparently — and at her new high school, she’s quickly the victim of …Read more »
Eiichiro Oda has built himself one hell of a playground. It's like those old toy commercials that featured the luckiest kids in the world slammin' their G.I. Joes or Turtles in elaborate, craggy playsets that didn't exist and would take way too much effort and …Read more »
One thing the world can never have enough of is manga by Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo. Thankfully, an interview with Japanese magazine Geijutsu Shincho reveals something new up his sleeve: a long-form shonen manga. Set in the Meiji era, Otomo's new project will be his …Read more »
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