Hello again, Otaku USA readers! This week’s On The Shelf comes with some good news and sad news. The sad news is that this will be the last On The Shelf article here at Otaku USA. I’ll miss sharing the week’s new manga here, but …Read more »
Manga tidal wave! What a fantastic way to start off the summer, which it finally feels like it is around here. But there are way more interesting things than the weather to talk of, so without further ado… First up, Dark Horse is releasing the …Read more »
Today is one of those days where shipping just doesn’t make a lot of sense. Yen Press, for example, has a truck load of new titles out, supposedly this week, but while big online retailers have their copies, other book distributors are still left waiting—and …Read more »
Pickings are a bit small this week but as always it’s a matter of quality over quantity! And there are some real knock-outs if the content floats your boat. The release dates on this first book have been a bit iffy retailer to retailer, but …Read more »
What a busy week! Free Comic Book Day this past Saturday was as fun as always, and this weekend coming up I’ll be attending the Toronto Comics Art Festival to spend days upon days swooning over how much talent you can fit into one building. …Read more »
Happy May, everyone! Have you gotten some spring weather yet? I think I saw some sun here this past weekend, and just in time, too. While this week’s manga supply may be a bit sparse, comic readers will still have lots to look forward to …Read more »
What a week for publisher turn-out! Just about everyone came out to play with over a dozen new books to line our shelves. Fantasy and fear starts us off with Dark Horse’s two on-going titles. In Bride of the Water God (Vol.13), the goddess Miura …Read more »
It’s the calm after the storm with this week’s new title list. It looks considerably shorter than the beautiful behemoth of books we’ve seen in recent columns, doesn’t it? But book quality over book quantity! Seven Seas and Viz Media are dishing out the individual …Read more »
It’s the penultimate volume of Oh My Goddess to start us off this week – only one more volume left after this! That’s so weird to even type. Of course that means there are still plenty of loose ends to tie up, so let’s not …Read more »
Welcome back, Otaku USA readers, to an Internet free of jokes, trolls, lies and misdirection as April Fools’ Day lays behind us! … … Alright, you got me, the internet isn’t exactly a pure haven of information on an everyday basis, but never fear! We’ve …Read more »
Dark Horse tackles the new release list with another double-dose of CLAMP. This week it’s volume two of Angelic Layer , which covers the second half and completes the series. This is one of my favorite CLAMP stories, and I think one of the most …Read more »
Dark Horse has been making it really hard to conserve shelf space with their re-releases of CLAMP’s back catalog. Even if, like me, you already own all the previous releases from Tokyopop, it’s almost impossible to pass by these brand new, retranslated, cleaned up, full-color …Read more »
Daylights Saving Time kicks in this week for us here in the North East, so we’re about to lose an hour. Yay for Spring but boo for lost time. Still, do you know what that means? It means I need to do at least an …Read more »
Kodansha Comics kicks things into literal overdrive to start us off this week with Air Gear (Vol.27). The synopsis for this volume almost reads like a parody description: "Ikki and Team Kogarasumaru are in a bad situation—facing über-team Sleipnir in an aerial battle on the …Read more »
Eikichi Onizuka's return to his old stomping grounds of Shonan has been a long and hard road thus far, but he's met every obstacle with his typically boisterous and reckless manner of response. Volume 7 of GTO: 14 Days in Shonan sees Onizuka exacting revenge …Read more »
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