One thing manga is known for doing particularly well is horror, from creepy creatures to ghost stories to psychological horror that will make the kid next door seem scarier than any werewolf. Here’s a Halloween sampler of horror-themed manga that ranges from the goofy to the ghoulish.
We closed out March with a piece of great news: Dark Horse has licensed Makoto Yukimura’s hard sci-fi manga Planetes, the story of celestial junkmen who travel through space picking up debris. They will begin releasing it in omnibus format in December. While we wait, here’s a look at the pick of the April releases, […]
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.
This week, HBO debuts Folklore, an anthology series focusing solely on Asian horror. And while it feels reductive to lump so many different cultures under a single classifying term, there is something markably different about these distinctly non-Western tales. The way they incorporate lingering atmosphere and building tension; the long, eerie stretches of silence; the sudden bursts […]
Horror manga sounds like a straightforward concept, but the stories vary widely: in Junji Ito’s Gyo, Uzumaki, and Shiver, bits of everyday life suddenly go haywire in horrific ways; things with teeth haunt the vampire saga Happiness; tension sustains the zombie-survival epic I Am a Hero; and a streak of humor runs through the assistants-to-the-dead series […]
