U.S. manga publishers took on challenging and unusual series in 2017, even as they also played it safe with sequels to some of the top series of previous years. As 2017 heads into the history books, here’s a look at some of our favorite new series and one-shots of the year.
Summer is over—head back to school with three solid high school romances, two shoujo and one yuri. If romance isn’t your bag, there’s plenty of escape reading as well—sci-fi, a Naruto gag manga, a crazy conclusion to the saga of Master Keaton, and an all-in-one omnibus edition of Death Note.
This week, Yen Press published the first volume of Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl. It’s a yuri manga, a high school romance about two girls, and reading it got me thinking that I needed to know more about the yuri genre. And that led me to my friend Erica Friedman, who is the […]
