If you’re reading your manga one volume at a time, you’re getting the story, but you might be missing some of the art: most translated manga is published in paperback, with black and white interiors, in a standard 5-inch by 7-inch format. In Japan, manga is serialized in larger-format magazines that often include color pages. […]
We know it’s hard to resist that latest shiny volume of My Hero Academia, but with the rise of digital rescues, a growing trend of anime adaptations of older properties, and a renewed interest in classic manga, there’s a slew of titles from the 1980s and ’90s becoming newly available after spending a stint out […]
While it is not unusual for Japanese manga magazine editors to come to the U.S. for conventions, the ones who do are almost always men who edit shonen magazines like Shonen Jump (which carries Naruto and One Piece) or Monthly Shonen Magazine, home of Noragami. So it was a big deal that Yuki Sukemune, the editor of the […]
Those new to manga are often surprised to find that sports manga are not only very much a thing that exists, they’re an entire genre of stories with themes of friendship, rivalry, perseverance, and guts. Japan has been producing comics dedicated to sports since the sixties, and the genre has embraced everything from popular pursuits […]
If you’re up for something new, August brings three new series: A historical shoujo romance, a basketball shonen manga, and Moto Hagio’s dreamy sci-fi story Otherworld Barbara. And if you’re yearning for something familiar to read on your vacation, we also have new volumes of Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul, and Assassination Classroom. Read on to […]
