In Primitive Boyfriend, Mito Kamigome looks like a typical sparkly-eyed teenage manga heroine, but she comes from a farm family and comes by her beauty through hard labor and a diet of home-grown produce. Though her school is populated with stock types from a girls’ …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 »
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 »
Calm and refreshed Anime has a glorious sub-subgenre known as iyashikei—literally, “healing” anime. You know those shows with lovely backgrounds, low stakes, calming music, and (occasionally) really gorgeous food? Those shows you can sit and take in despite their minimal plot because they just bathe …Read more »
Harem scarem! At first glance, Negi Haruba’s The Quintessential Quintuplets carries the earmarks of pretty much every other harem series. Guy finds himself unexpectedly entangled with multiple girls, each with a unique look and personality that someone in the audience will like. Each maintains a …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 »
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 »
A solid swing There is, if it’s the sort of thing you fancy, no shortage of anime about high-school students killing each other off. Where once the niche was so narrow you could accuse any such project of copying Battle Royale, now you can find …Read more »
A rarity of a show When it comes to fantasy anime, we are mostly treated to two distinct types. 1) A generic JRPG-style world complete with “classes” and enemies having “levels” (do they realize that levels are just a way of quantifying the concept of …Read more »
A Flirty Fireman Ravishes Me with His Smoldering Gaze This setup will feel familiar to fans of romance novels, and Fire in His Fingertips is very much a manga answer to American-style romance fiction and women’s erotica. Ryo, a career woman with a vaguely defined …Read more »
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