The Ghost in the Shell Stands Alone as a Classic Sci-Fi Manga
With the live-action film adaptation of The Ghost in the Shell debuting this weekend, it’s a perfect time to pick up the…
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Defining Yuri Manga: A Q&A with Erica Friedman
This week, Yen Press published the first volume of Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl. It’s a yuri manga,…
Ichi-F Is a Powerful Manga Memoir of the Fukushima Disaster
For most of us, living outside Japan, the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, were viewed from a distance and…
The Best New Manga of March 2017
A few of the series topping the list of this month’s new manga releases are barreling toward their final climaxes, as Tohru…
Erased Is a Time Travel Story Wrapped Around a Mystery
The first volume of Erased, a new manga by Kei Sanbe, is strangely atmospheric, one of those seinen stories filled with snow and…
On the Passing of Master Manga-ka Jiro Taniguchi…
Jiro Taniguchi, whose manga celebrated the beauty of everyday life and the majesty of the highest mountains, has died at…
How John Jennings and Damian Duffy Transformed Octavia Butler’s Kindred into the Most Powerful Graphic Novel of the Year
In Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred, a black woman ends up living in the past—literally. Dana, a writer happily married to…
The Best New Manga of February 2017
February is truly the cruelest month—a time of gray skies and gray slush. But it’s also a great time for…
Shrewd Deals and Sad Girls: An Interview with Spice & Wolf Creator Isuna Hasekura
Isuna Hasekura’s Spice & Wolf is a long-running manga and light novel series (yes, there’s an anime too) about Lawrence,…
6 Manga that Let You Sit in With the Band
One of the manga we’re most looking forward to reading in 2017 is Anonymous Noise, a story about a talented musician…
The Best New Manga of January 2017
The new year brings some new series—a Sherlock Holmes manga based on the BBC show and a new series from the…
7 Manga Series That Came Back from the Dead
Back when manga was still a novelty, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, publishers brought over a lot of…
The Best Continuing Manga Series of 2016
More than a few promising new manga series launched in the past year, but there were also plenty of returning…
The Best New Manga Series of 2016
Whatever you say about the balance of 2016, it was a good year for manga. Publishers expanded their lines in…
A Holiday Gift Guide for Manga Lovers
Buying gifts for manga fans can be a challenge; if they like a series, they undoubtedly already have the latest…
The Best New Manga of December 2016
December brings new volumes in some fan-favorite series, including Tokyo Ghoul and Assassination Classroom, as well as a few intriguing…
6 Magnificent Manga Set in Victorian England
The Victorians were a fascinating bunch, repressed to the point where they covered the legs of their chairs, but indulging…
The Best New Manga of November 2016
The days are getting shorter but the holidays aren’t quite here yet. It’s a good time to hunker down and read…
