There’s nothing like picking up a volume of manga and seeing something familiar staring back at you. Whether it’s bluesman Robert Johnson teaming up with outlaw Clyde Barrow in Me and the Devil Blues or a female Santa Claus with a reindeer boyfriend in Sweet Rein, manga creators have a way taking our familiar stories […]
June brings a bumper crop of new manga, including new volumes from veteran creators Jiro Taniguchi, Junji Ito, and Kaori Yuki; a new slice-of-life series about girls in a country school; and a bubbly shojo manga with a few surprising twists.