May’s new series are all out of this world, with lots of fantasy, supernatural, and game-related titles. We have a retro classic—Shotaro Ishinomori’s Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past—plus stories about players trapped inside a game, vampires, supernatural mysteries, the Straw Hat Pirates, and the start of one very real, very heartfelt high […]
From the manga of Shigeru Mizuki to the anime-manga-game franchise Yo-Kai Watch, yokai have become increasingly familiar to English-speaking audiences. But what exactly are they, and where do they come from? We talked to yokai expert Zack Davisson, translator of Mizuki’s The Birth of Kitaro, author of Yurei: The Japanese Ghost, and an expert on yokai […]
