Peppered in among the returning favorites in July’s manga releases are a handful of new series you’ll want to keep an eye on. Whether sending up tropes of a particular sub-genre, or subverting them in interesting ways, they are well worth a glance. You never know when you’ll find your next addiction.
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.
Fruits Basket is returning! Back in the mid-2000s, Natsuki Takaya’s tale of an orphan girl’s entanglement with a family suffering from an ancient curse helped establish not just shoujo manga, but stories for girls in general, as an important part of the American comics scene. The series didn’t just top the graphic novel charts, it […]
No doubt about it, this was a great year for manga, with the return of some classic older series and the debut of some fascinating new ones. While I was thinking about the best new series of 2015, I was looking for stories that push the boundaries of the standard genres—or step outside them altogether. […]