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 […]
December brings shorter days, endless Christmas songs, and a strong urge to compile best-of-the-year lists. This was a good year for manga, with strong showings by blockbuster ongoing series and the launch of some intriguing new ones. Here’s a look at some of the manga we thought were the cream of the 2018 crop. Best […]
Seemingly endless manga series are great—have we mentioned we love One Piece?—but sometimes you just want a good story that ends before you wade through 12 or 60 or 80 volumes (again, we’re looking at you, One Piece). Enter the one-shot manga, a format that probably doesn’t get as much attention as it should—because there […]
November brings a batch of new manga to enjoy on those long, cold nights of winter—and the return of a couple of classics as well. Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira and Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita are back in new, ultra-deluxe editions, and we also get a Tokyo Ghoul art book, a new series from Natsume Ono, […]
More than a few promising new manga series launched in the past year, but there were also plenty of returning favorites keeping us entertained. Here’s a look at 10 continuing series that kept us reading in 2016.