Kodansha is the largest manga publisher in Japan, which means its American arm, Kodansha Comics, has a huge library to choose from when it comes time to import them Stateside. Since its launch in 2008 (old-timers may remember that it was a sort of successor to Del Rey’s efforts in the manga sphere), Kodansha Comics […]
The ongoing series that grew out of that story, Tomie, ran in the magazine for 13 years, launching Ito’s career as a manga-ka. Since then, he has provided bone-deep chills and viscersal thrills to a generation of readers in the U.S. and Japan with short stories (collected in the books Fragments of Horror, Shiver, and Smashed) […]
It seems like I woke up one day and all my Facebook friends were playing Neko Atsume, a cat-collecting game so addictive, they were all onto it before it was even available in English. Now that there’s an English-language app, Viz is jumping on the bandwagon with two super-cute Neko Atsume books, which got me […]
