Seemingly endless manga series are great—have we mentioned we love One Piece?—but sometimes you just want a good story that ends before you wade through 12 or 60 or 80 volumes (again, we’re looking at you, One Piece). Enter the one-shot manga, a format that probably doesn’t get as much attention as it should—because there […]
For most of us, living outside Japan, the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, were viewed from a distance and through a screen—literally. Much of what we saw was aerial footage filmed from a birds-eye view; reporting from the ground was by necessity wide and shallow, showing us dramatic footage of the destruction but skipping quickly […]