December brings shorter days, endless Christmas songs, and a strong urge to compile best-of-the-year lists. This was a good year for manga, with strong showings by blockbuster ongoing series and the launch of some intriguing new ones. Here’s a look at some of the manga we thought were the cream of the 2018 crop. Best […]
With the sixth volume of Ryoko Kui’s Delicious in Dungeon due out next week, now is the perfect time to dig into this fantasy adventure/cooking/comedy manga. Following adventurer Laios and his party of dungeon crawlers on a quest to rescue his sister from a dragon while making a meal of any tasty-looking monsters the group […]
From hot-blooded teen boys fighting demons and winning sports tournaments to the first bloom of starry-eyed love, manga notoriously favors stories of middle and high schoolers. There’s nothing wrong with reliving the passions of youth, but as an adult manga reader, sometimes it’s nice to read stories about, well, adults. For those of you craving […]
May brings us fresh starts—the first volume of Gengoroh Tagame’s charming family drama My Brother’s Husband, the post-apocalyptic school-friends story Girls’ Last Tour, the foodie monster manga Delicious in Dungeon. Old favorites are back too— the volleyball teams of Haikyu!! are still struggling to be the best ever, the superheroes of My Hero Academia face their toughest […]
New year, new manga. This year looks like it’s going to be a great one for the medium, with some tantalizing new series, extensions of older ones, and a beautiful deluxe edition of a classic. Whether you’re interested in the traditional art of rakugo or cooking dragons for your dinner, there’s something for everyone this […]
