June brings a bumper crop of new manga, including new volumes from veteran creators Jiro Taniguchi, Junji Ito, and Kaori Yuki; a new slice-of-life series about girls in a country school; and a bubbly shojo manga with a few surprising twists.
Summer is winding down, but it’s still miserable out here on the East Coast—nasty, sticky, humid heat that makes stepping outdoors feel like wading through a bowl of warm miso soup. It’s too hot to move, too hot to think, too hot to do anything except seek out someplace air conditioned and stay there as […]
The 2018 Eisner Awards, to be presented this coming Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, are the premier awards for the comics industry. While they have never suffered from the kind of controversy the Hugo Awards faced a couple of years ago, there are always a few good arguments to be had about what should have […]
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 […]