Remember when manga was supposed to be dead? Me neither. Last year saw an outstanding crop of new releases, and there’s more coming later this year, from the new Eternal Edition of Sailor Moon to Go Nagai’s crazy robot-girl fighting manga Cutie Honey a Go Go! Here’s a look at some other new series we […]
That’s quite a carte blanche, coming from the creator of so many complex and sometimes enigmatic manga. Asano’s first works to appear in English were the one-volume solanin and the two-volume What a Wonderful World!, both of which earned critical praise for their portrayal of disaffected urban youths wavering between their dreams and the demands […]
Whatever you say about the balance of 2016, it was a good year for manga. Publishers expanded their lines in all different directions, bringing us new titles from popular creators as well as interesting debuts from newcomers. The category has grown richer than ever before, with more manga for more tastes. Here’s a look at […]
One of the manga we’re most looking forward to reading in 2017 is Anonymous Noise, a story about a talented musician and her two long-lost friends. Youth, music, and romance are a heady mix, and there are plenty of manga that revolve around the lives of musicians. Here’s a handful of our favorites to read while […]
Even the most dedicated manga fan can feel weak at the knees at the prospect of plunging into a 70-volume series (or even a relatively trim 20-volume one), and forget trying to convince someone unfamiliar with the medium to dive right into the deep end. Not all manga is interminable, however: many manga-ka can tell a […]
